White tiny worms in aquarium Please Help!!!!

[Alexey Semenov]

Someone Please Help . I have discovered that my fishtank has hundred's of
tiny white worms crawling all over the place. Especially on the glass. They
are about 2 milimiters long, some are ven smaller. Is this a desease or
it's normal?

i have 55 gallon tank with two plants and two porus stones. Adeqate amount
of gravel. In terms of fish i have two oscars, one algae eater, two catfish
and one parrot. PH is neutral amonia is 0.

I would really appreciate your help.
regards

Alex

[Toni]

"Alexey Semenov" > wrote in message
...
> Someone Please Help . I have discovered that my fishtank has hundred's of
> tiny white worms crawling all over the place. Especially on the glass.
They
> are about 2 milimiters long, some are ven smaller. Is this a desease or
> it's normal?
>


Planaria
http://www.aquarticles.com/articles/management/Ali_Planaria_Worms.html
They are not a disease, but generally indicate a bit too much feeding with
not enough gravel vacuuming.


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Toni
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[Geezer From The Freezer]

yep deinitely planaria. I had this (and still do a little) in my
10gallon tank. Toni's advice is good. If you have any plants in the
tank, remove them and give them a damn good wash. Also wipe the insides
of the tank and then do a huge water removal.

If you can move all your fish out of the tank into another, you
could always try raising the temperature to about 105degrees F for
a day or so as this will kill the little gits too. Unfortunately for
me, this wasn't an option, and I still see the odd wriggly planaria worm
in the tank. They are harmless but if you have LOADS they can get into
the fish's gills and irritate them.

[Surgicalrn]

So there you have it Alexey... you feed too much and don't clean enough!!!
So do I on occasion... either way the worms will die off, be eaten or go
back to the gravel sooner or later.

[Dinky]

"Geezer From The Freezer" > wrote in message
...
> yep deinitely planaria. I had this (and still do a little) in my
> 10gallon tank. Toni's advice is good. If you have any plants in the
> tank, remove them and give them a damn good wash. Also wipe the insides
> of the tank and then do a huge water removal.
>
> If you can move all your fish out of the tank into another, you
> could always try raising the temperature to about 105degrees F for
> a day or so as this will kill the little gits too. Unfortunately for
> me, this wasn't an option, and I still see the odd wriggly planaria worm
> in the tank. They are harmless but if you have LOADS they can get into
> the fish's gills and irritate them.

I've never had to do anything this drastic in any tank, all I do is reduce
feeding for a week or 2, and the fish eat them. I have done this a dozen
plus times over the years, the most drastic thing I've done is an extra
gravel vac.

[Geezer From The Freezer]

Dinky wrote:
> I've never had to do anything this drastic in any tank, all I do is reduce
> feeding for a week or 2, and the fish eat them. I have done this a dozen
> plus times over the years, the most drastic thing I've done is an extra
> gravel vac.

My Black Moors can't see them (I think). I still see the odd little
wriggly planaria. I did stop feeding my fish for about 5 days -
didn't make a lot of difference to my tank, so I ended up doing massive
water change to get rid of some of them.

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Geezer From The Freezer > wrote:

> My Black Moors can't see them (I think). I still see the odd little
> wriggly planaria. I did stop feeding my fish for about 5 days -

I don't think cutting back the frequency of feeding your fish is good...
Just the quantity you feed to them.


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