small worms in pond filter
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I get nitecrawlers in my large filter that I have to clean out every time it rains hard. I fixed the mosquito larvae thing by putting some small guppy type fish in the filter. I just leave them in there and they feed them selves.
wish my camera can take those worms , its too tiny , anyway my longfin albino bristlenose pleco is dead , found him trap inside first compartment 
, all his fins is gone and several red marks on his body , wondering weather those worms done it 
, can guppies take strong currents?
, all his fins is gone and several red marks on his body , wondering weather those worms done it , can guppies take strong currents?
What kind of filter and how many gph?
Guppies are no salmon.... Mosquito fish (Gambusia) will solve any larve issues. Really, any fish will take care of larve if given a chance.
Need pics. of the worms for ID. Don't think they would cause the BN to get beat up. If he was floundering around in the filtration system for awhile, he could have been beat up that way. My goldfish will loss some scales from if caught in the skimmer for a day or two.
Guppies are no salmon.... Mosquito fish (Gambusia) will solve any larve issues. Really, any fish will take care of larve if given a chance.
Need pics. of the worms for ID. Don't think they would cause the BN to get beat up. If he was floundering around in the filtration system for awhile, he could have been beat up that way. My goldfish will loss some scales from if caught in the skimmer for a day or two.
Chaoborus are free-swimming, so your anchored worms are not them. Do the worms have a "hunchbacked" look like Chaoborus? If so, they could be blackfly (Simulius) larvae. If worms are not hunchbacked, they could be tubificid or lumbriculid worms. All of these are harmless filter feeders.