Help, Worms!

[Mako Man111]

Alright so I look on my glass today and I see quite a few small white worms sliding up and down on the glass!! My ottos seem REALLY jumpy, and then I see this really nastly looking brown worm parasite thing wiggling through the water! Help, what do I do?? This is my 20 gallon tank. Will marcyn kill them? Maracide? Salt? Also, there is this white stringy stuff all over the bottom of my wisteria, no where else in the tank, is it a nest or something? I've also got another medicine that contains Malachite Green Formalin, would that do the trick?

Also, my hands were in the water today, is this potentially harmful to me?

My tank houses one betta and 2 ottos.

 

[WILDER]

Sounds like these fetched on through over feeding and lack of maintance on the tank, or a high ammonia reading.

http/www.aquarticles.com/articles/manage...aria_Worms.html

 

[Mako Man111]

Sounds like these fetched on through over feeding and lack of maintance on the tank, or a high ammonia reading.

http/www.aquarticles.com/articles/manage...aria_Worms.html

Thats weird cause my amonia reading (and nitrite reads are both 0ppm, and I do regular water changee/gravel vac weekly. I put some of the Malachite Green Formalin in and i'll see if they are gone in the morning.

 

[WILDER]

They can be due to over feeding as well, do you dig deep in the gravel with the vac.
I would be carerful with that med as them oto are scaless fish and can't tolerate parasite meds to well, did you use full dose, and have you increase aeration in the tank.

 

[Mako Man111]

They can be due to over feeding as well, do you dig deep in the gravel with the vac.

Yes actually I do, And I only feen once a day only as much flakes and krill as my betta can eat, in a minute or so.

 

[WILDER]

Your otto need algae tablets i would research them to find the correct diet for them.

 

[Mako Man111]

Your otto need algae tablets i would research them to find the correct diet for them.

Yes, I have some Tetra and Hikari algae tablets that I give them once in a while but I never see them nibbling on them. They seem to be content with the little algae growing on my plants.

 

[Mako Man111]

Ok I've watched my betta eat quite a few of these worms as they get detached and float through the water, is this cause for concern?

Tomorrow I'm considering stripping the tank down completely.

 

[Tetras]

Hi Makoman,

I have the white worms too, and wrote a post about it awhile back, I hate them and they gross me out when I gravel vac and they appear. My tank is very clean and well looked after, so i don't blame it on that. My fish eat them and as far as I learned here, they are not a concern. They do have a name, can't remeber it, search the old posts, as I have seen a lot of people asking about them. I found a nest last time under my gravel and sucked a lot up, the fish ate the rest. Gag.

Now the brown one I don't know about, remove if you can, hopefully somebody will come along that knows about this.

 

[WILDER]

Don't strip the tank down, as long as there not attached to the fish and not causing harm nothing to worry about.
Stripping the tank down and starting a cycle will do more harm.
I would do a good gravel vac and remove the ornaments and if have live plants give them a good vac around them as debris and nasites can brew up if you are not doing it properly.

 

[Mako Man111]

We'll after a little closer inspection, I also see what look like little critters running along my driftwood and sometimes zipping through the water. Are they water fleas or something? Also, there was this like fuzzing nest like thing growing on the bottom part of my wisteria, afer I put in some meds, it was gone a day later..

 

[WILDER]

Are they disc shaped.

 

[Mako Man111]

I dunno they are really too small to tell, they are round though, and I see them walking along my driftwood. Kinda weird.


EDIT: I positive I've got water fleas too now, because I've read they swim really jerkily and these things do exactly that. But I read they are good food for the fish and keep algae in control. Maby thats why I've got hardly any algae in my tank, even after stopping using my diy co2. I have 3.25wpg.

 

[Bloo]

They are not by any chance Planaria are they ? If they are, usually they are there due to overfeeding and entirely harmless. Cut down on food and they will go away.
If that's what they are. Any chance of a photo ?

Ps: sorry didn't see Wilder already asked that in the first post. I have a feeling that's what they are - or sounds like at least.

 

[WILDER]

If they have quite a few legs look these up Argulus (a.k.a. Fish Lice)