Tiny White Worms

[viperbot]

Hey all,

Just finished a water change on my 125ltr planted setup and upon restarting the filter (fluval 205 canister) a big cloud of hundreds of squirming white worms was pumped into the tank. The fish, thankfully devoured them but Im worried. Ive never come across this and the setup is barely up and running two months. Im not even sure if they are worms, what if there flukes or something?? Planaria also came to mind after reading another post but im not taking any chances here. Anyone come across this before?? In a bit of a flap here so any advice would be sweet. Cheers,

Jay

 

[Chaitika]

Sounds like planaria. Have you cleaned your filter lately? PRobably a bunch of uneaten food in it if the worms came out of the filter.

 

[kzimmerman]

^^ yup. canister filters can accumulate lots of organics. It doesn't necessarily have to be uneaten food, if it's a planted tank it could be coming from plant parts trapped in the filter and decaying. Just clean it out real good, and you should be fine.

 

[viperbot]

ok, thanks for the replys guys