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[Michael the fish fanatic]

What are these, I found them all over the floor of my tank, they are small, skinny and worm like, there is also some round white ones also small.What are they? are they harmful?and how do I get rid of them? Thanks

[Michael the fish fanatic]

It looks like hyrdra, but I thought hydra had to be introduced to a tank for it to be there, not from bad water quality?

[Redevilz]

If they are hydra then baby guppies an apple snails will eat them.

[Michael the fish fanatic]

I read that hydra eat fry, I think I'll get some pond snails to eat them

[Bombshocked]

you wont have any luck if they are hydra, hydra have a sucker foot, with 4 tentacles hanging out, my pond snails wouldn't eat it but..... you can kill them with

 

http://www.aquariumo...site-clear-50g/

 

there tentacles shrivel up and then they die off

and if you only have a small ammount you can get liquid c02 (dinospit) and blast them with a syringe( the hydra)

 

 

it could be planaria if it is just do big gravel vacs half your feeding and up your waterchanges

Edited by Bombshocked, 28 September 2014 - 02:19 PM.

[Michael the fish fanatic]

I don't have gravel, I'll try snails, would the hydra affect my red devil boy?

[Fish Antics]

With seeing them, they could also be Planeria worm. Generally get a bloom of them from over feeding. Generally harmless. Hyrda wont bother your devil.

 

Tony

[Michael the fish fanatic]

No, they are hydra as I can see the hand like things coming off of them, I added snails so hopefully they will eat them

[MattyB]

yeah I was going to say planaria which is completely harmful, if you do a 50 percent water change they will just disappear. but if they have the long stringy things coming off them than hydras it is

[bigjohnnofish]

50% wc doest get rid of planeria.... not in my experience.... dunno where they come from but i use no-planeria to get rid of them... you can control them by reduced food and introducing a predator but in the end as soon as you remove predator and up the feeding they return hard and strong.... you can also use some of the other wormers as basically planeria is an external worm rather than an internal worm.... 

if they reach plaque proportions they are bad news - irritate the crap outa your fish....

[MattyB]

its worked for me every time as long as you clean the substrate and to get rid of uneaten food, must be just me lol I think its odd how they do just disappear tho lol

[Riggers]

Is Ollie still making up the medicated foods? From what i recall they can be quite effective