Urgent Help Needed

[BobCat]

Hi

Last night I notice thousand of small white organisms crawling over my aquarium glass, mostly near the surface of the tank. They have a small wite body with what appears to be a a forked tail or feelers. They are only about 2-3 mm long.

Also in the water floating there appears to be many 5-10mm long white worm like creatures.

I have never seen these before in the tank. The tank contains a 8-10" fly river turtle. The only thing that has changed in the tank before they appeared has been a 20% water change and a 4-6" snake neck turtle was in the tank for a 12 hour period.

The Fly River Turtle is obviously an expensive animal so I am worried that these organisms could be harming it or could be a sign of some problem.

Can anyone help please??

 

[bigspizz]

Planeria....Up the water changes/ Gravel vacs

 

[BobCat]

Thanks for the help.

The things on the glass dont look like flatworm though. They are hard to describe and unfortunately I cant get a good pic of them. They are almost jellyfish like in shape.

 

[Nabbig2]

oh god...good luck

 

[tyl089]

you might have hydra.

 

[japes]

I'm with Spizz, just sounds like Planaria, an organism that can have numerous shapes ranging from worms to flat jellyfish shapes like you described, and is usually a result of inadequate water change scheduals leading to excess nutrients.

As Spizz said, up your water change schedule and gravel vacuum heavily. Oh, they're harmless too