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Jbenson54

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Hello everyone,

Iā€™ve been cycling my tank for some rili shrimp but have found these white little worms all over the tank. So I snagged a few and got some decent pictures of them under a microscope. At first I thought they were detritus worms but under the microscope they donā€™t have the hairs on their sides. Does anyone have any ideas what they could be?
 

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Did a search on google and they came up as flukes. Any change thats what they are?
Did you end up doing any treatment for this or finding out? I am reading through old threads and it seems detritus or not, little white worms breeding in the tank are very common in shrimp and snail tanks - I've now got them in my new shrimp tank. Flukes are parasites and need meds so just curious if you sorted it out
 

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