What is this thing?

[Dat boi blu]

What is this white little worm and how to get rid off it?

 

[tlindsey]

What is this white little worm and how to get rid off it?

Could be a detritus worm but not sure. Detritus worms will appear from substrate if you are over feed .

 

[TwoHedWlf]

Yeah, most likely a detritus worm, harmless but can be a symptom of overfeeding and lack of maintenance.

 

[Dat boi blu]

I found him after a water change. I went on vacation for a week and let my grandmother take care of them so that makes sense.

 

[livingcolor]

Don't have any idea about this worm.

 

[TERTELKeng]

I found him after a water change. I went on vacation for a week and let my grandmother take care of them so that makes sense.

That used to happen *a lot* to me and i think they’re just nematodes. The problem went away soon as i started feeding less and doing more, more thorough water changes. I’ve heard of people taking their fish out of the aquarium and raising the temperature to unbearable levels or just adding smaller fish that eat the worms or even adding chemicals to their aquarium. I find it best to just do multiple major water changes regularly for a week or so and you’ll be fine. I’m not sure wether or not these things are harmful but their presence in my aquariums just irritates me.

 

[Victor Pellet Mill]

you can try to find out what is that

 

[krichardson]

you can try to find out what is that

I think that that is the point of this thread?

 

[markstrimaran]

That thing is free fish food. How come it has not been eaten yet?

 

[krichardson]

His fish are probably too big to bother with it .