Can You Guys Tell Me What This Is

[minxfishy]

I take it back not planaria, not sure what it is, did it just appear from nowhere or has it been building up for some time?

I suggest a wipe and vac session, wipe away with an algae magnet or similar and vac it away (preferably without the syphon, just the hose end) and you should get rid of a lot of it, if it comes back keep doing the same thing.

Cut back on feeding too, if it is alive, then it needs a food source.

 

[saz326]

looks like algae to me. I had similar going on, was algae attaching to slight inconsistancies on the glass surface. MAgnet cleaner thing would take it off, but it would reattach when it "caught" on small bits on the glass.

Resolved mine by using a razor blade on the glass to remove the small notches/inconsistancies (which turned out to be algae spots growing on the glass surface.)

 

[Reesy1989]

Do you have synthetic plants or real plants?

I had an issue with this in my 40 gallon. Looked like long thin hairs but it turned out to be where the plants had frayed.

 

[three-fingers]

I cant make out any details in the video, but can you set your camera to it's macro setting and stake a still?

Are they hydra by any chance?

 

[BigC]

Thats Hydra you got there mate.Deffo. Need Flubendazole 5% powder.
BigC

 

[Nick16]

i had the stuff the OP has but now its gone. i put a large airstone in the tank, (its only 38l) (shrimp tank) and left it going for a week and it cleared itself, but maybe the shrimps helped a bit? aparently young fish, (fry) like eating it, so as i had my fry in it, i left it there untill they had gone. is it slimy?

 

[BigC]

The shrimp might have eaten it ,

aparently young fish, (fry) like eating it,

thats simply not true as Hydra will take small fry. Hydra in fry tanks is a big no no IMHO. Flubendazole kills the buggers period.

 

[three-fingers]

My guppy fry eat them, as do my tetras.
Cherry shrimp also eat them.

Unless they are in a fry tank its not worth doing anything about them IMO. Harmless interesting little critters .

 

[erk628]

My guppy fry eat them, as do my tetras.
Cherry shrimp also eat them.

Unless they are in a fry tank its not worth doing anything about them IMO. Harmless interesting little critters .

So you guys think thats what its. How do I get rid of them and how did they get there in the first place.

 

[Syphoniera]

I think there was a misunderstanding.
Somebody showed a picture of hydra, and asked if that could be what you had.
Somebody else thought it was a pic of your problem and suggested a good med.
If you had what I had, and it appears identical from what I could make out in the video, it's not hydra, and in my case it vanished in a few weeks of wiping down the inside glass during regular weekly waterchanges.
I think it took two wipe sessions, actually, but I used paper towel to try to bring at least some of it out, rather than scraping it off to let it all float around the tank.
So I don't know if that helped with the problem, but I figured it couldn't hurt, and in my case I also have arm problems and actually more trouble working a scraper even than wiping.
I also have two filters in the tank with that problem, so that may also have helped - no idea, but the one at the quiet end (where everybody usually hangs out) is only a box filter, so there's more rotating end-to-end circulation than strong flow at that end, just lots of filter wool, both in there and the HOB at the other end, to snag particles.
So there was no big effort, certainly no high tech, no powerful, spiffy-type equipment/chemicals used to clear it up, in an arrangement I'm sure most people - and certainly all manufacturers - would regard as inadequate to begin with.

 

[erk628]

I think there was a misunderstanding.
Somebody showed a picture of hydra, and asked if that could be what you had.
Somebody else thought it was a pic of your problem and suggested a good med.
If you had what I had, and it appears identical from what I could make out in the video, it's not hydra, and in my case it vanished in a few weeks of wiping down the inside glass during regular weekly waterchanges.
I think it took two wipe sessions, actually, but I used paper towel to try to bring at least some of it out, rather than scraping it off to let it all float around the tank.
So I don't know if that helped with the problem, but I figured it couldn't hurt, and in my case I also have arm problems and actually more trouble working a scraper even than wiping.
I also have two filters in the tank with that problem, so that may also have helped - no idea, but the one at the quiet end (where everybody usually hangs out) is only a box filter, so there's more rotating end-to-end circulation than strong flow at that end, just lots of filter wool, both in there and the HOB at the other end, to snag particles.
So there was no big effort, certainly no high tech, no powerful, spiffy-type equipment/chemicals used to clear it up, in an arrangement I'm sure most people - and certainly all manufacturers - would regard as inadequate to begin with.

Thanks for clearing that up for me! I have been using a magnet but all it has been doing is making it float around. I used the magnet again today and did a water change it it doesn't look as bad now. I'mm try using paper towels tommorrow. Thanks for the help everyone!

 

[nosoup4you]

Do you use floss in your filter? Some good fresh floss would probably clear it up pretty quickly.

 

[erk628]

Do you use floss in your filter? Some good fresh floss would probably clear it up pretty quickly.

No I don't but thanks for the idea I'll run up to the LFS tommorrow and pick some up. The two fiters I have on there I don't think they make floss for it but I could just buy some for another filter that I know would fit.

 

[three-fingers]

You can buy floss is big bags for around £2 usually, much better value than buying it for any filter brand, you just cut it to size yourself .

No chance of a macro shot? Would be interesting to find out what these things are.