The fish in my 125g have what looks like tiny white threads attached to there bodys only like one or two per fish what are they please help!?!?!?!?!
What is this illness?
- Thread starter crazyfisherman88
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Sounds like anchor worms. Try plucking them off with tweezers, clean your filters and do 50% water changes reguarly.
Plucking them out with tweesers is a stressful buisness for the fish and can leave the fish vunerable to infections. A far less stressful way to completely get rid of external parasites/worms like these is to treat the tank with an anti external parasite med like the one done by Jungle Guard, which will completely eradicate the parasites from the tank with a few treatments.
Edit: By the way, to make sure we are certain of what you are treating, these are what anchor worms look like (in the pic below they are on a small tropical fish called a betta);
http://www.bettatalk.com/images/External Parasites.jpg
There are also camallanus worms, which have a more thread like and thinner appearance than anchor worms and are not "forked" in appearance.
Edit: By the way, to make sure we are certain of what you are treating, these are what anchor worms look like (in the pic below they are on a small tropical fish called a betta);
http://www.bettatalk.com/images/External Parasites.jpg
There are also camallanus worms, which have a more thread like and thinner appearance than anchor worms and are not "forked" in appearance.
i dont think its ancor worns. because the strands are really tiny, and some of the fish just look like a scale or two came off maybe its a bacteria infection but im not sure.