white worms in tank

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ok i was looking into my tank today and notice that there was little white worm like things on the side of the tank and was wondering were they came from and if they will hurt my oscar and the rest of my fish and after seen them i did a water change
 
use the search feature to look up planaria. in short, feed less, WC more. for more details, check the search. there are more in depth posts about this
 
Because the pictures are close-ups, and planaria are very small. Being that you have an Oscar, try not to overfeed, and clean up and un-eaten food.
 
That's because they are not planaria. I'd start swearing and throwing things around the room now, but you wouldn't know it anyway. You know how people like to say Oscars are like piranha? This is pretty much the same scene. Not every nematode, roundworm or flatworm is a planarian. Thank goodness you have the fortitude to actually look it up. What you have, if they wiggle in the water and are about a quarter-inch long, are a type of roundworm that is very common in our trade. I do not know which species it is, but they must be coming in on one of the common foods like bloodworm/tubifex cultures or they might even hitch a ride in on prepared or frozen food. The advice is the same, but how would you feel if someone called your snail a slug?
 
knifegill;3511084; said:
That's because they are not planaria. I'd start swearing and throwing things around the room now, but you wouldn't know it anyway. You know how people like to say Oscars are like piranha? This is pretty much the same scene. Not every nematode, roundworm or flatworm is a planarian. Thank goodness you have the fortitude to actually look it up. What you have, if they wiggle in the water and are about a quarter-inch long, are a type of roundworm that is very common in our trade. I do not know which species it is, but they must be coming in on one of the common foods like bloodworm/tubifex cultures or they might even hitch a ride in on prepared or frozen food. The advice is the same, but how would you feel if someone called your snail a slug?
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yea there not free swiming they just stay on the side of the tank and they came from feeding black worms to my eels
 
knifegill;3511084; said:
That's because they are not planaria. I'd start swearing and throwing things around the room now, but you wouldn't know it anyway. You know how people like to say Oscars are like piranha? This is pretty much the same scene. Not every nematode, roundworm or flatworm is a planarian. Thank goodness you have the fortitude to actually look it up. What you have, if they wiggle in the water and are about a quarter-inch long, are a type of roundworm that is very common in our trade. I do not know which species it is, but they must be coming in on one of the common foods like bloodworm/tubifex cultures or they might even hitch a ride in on prepared or frozen food. The advice is the same, but how would you feel if someone called your snail a slug?
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Roundworms are red. His are white. Therefore planaria. Maybe you should do some research... :screwy: And they (roundworms) wouldn't come in on prepared or frozen foods because those foods are processed and/or frozen.
 
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