Camillemj
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Tank size: 2.5 gallon
tank temp:78 degrees
Fish Symptoms (include full description including lesion, color, location, fish behavior): no fishy symptoms. However I've see about three of these worm things. They are skinny white-ish clear colored or a reddish brown color, they squirm & wriggle, mostly on the bottom half of the tank. One got sucked up by the filter.
Volume and Frequency of water changes: daily water changes, about 1/3 to 1/2 total volume changed, relplaced with water from the community tank.
Chemical Additives or Media in your tank: no, only small filter with media from my clycled 30 gallon compunity tank.
Tank inhabitants: 7 danio fry (5 days old)
Recent additions to your tank (living or decoration): hornwort and java fern (floating) there was a small peice of heavy drift wood (mapani or something) it has been leaching tanens, I took that out last night after I saw the worms. I boiled it for an hour (changed the water three times). I'm not putting the drift wood back in the tank until this gets straightened out.
Exposure to chemicals: nope, its on my kitchen table
digital photo (include if possible): my digital camera wouldn't/couldn't get focused on one of these guys
MY Question & Worry Everything except the drift wood is the same in my 30 gallon tank. If I have to treat for parasites or worms do I treat both tanks? I did notice my three platys had stringy clear poo when I first got them two weeks ago but I haven't noticed anything since.
Feeding: I feed the fry three or four times a day frozen baby brine shrimp. I just scrape some of the brine shrimp from the little frozen block and put it in the tank. This is why I do daily water changes. The fish seem healthy perfering the frozen mushy brine shrimp to the live hatched baby brine shrimp I tried to feed them on Saturday.
Any help, comments, suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.
Tank size: 2.5 gallon
tank temp:78 degrees
Fish Symptoms (include full description including lesion, color, location, fish behavior): no fishy symptoms. However I've see about three of these worm things. They are skinny white-ish clear colored or a reddish brown color, they squirm & wriggle, mostly on the bottom half of the tank. One got sucked up by the filter.
Volume and Frequency of water changes: daily water changes, about 1/3 to 1/2 total volume changed, relplaced with water from the community tank.
Chemical Additives or Media in your tank: no, only small filter with media from my clycled 30 gallon compunity tank.
Tank inhabitants: 7 danio fry (5 days old)
Recent additions to your tank (living or decoration): hornwort and java fern (floating) there was a small peice of heavy drift wood (mapani or something) it has been leaching tanens, I took that out last night after I saw the worms. I boiled it for an hour (changed the water three times). I'm not putting the drift wood back in the tank until this gets straightened out.
Exposure to chemicals: nope, its on my kitchen table
digital photo (include if possible): my digital camera wouldn't/couldn't get focused on one of these guys
MY Question & Worry Everything except the drift wood is the same in my 30 gallon tank. If I have to treat for parasites or worms do I treat both tanks? I did notice my three platys had stringy clear poo when I first got them two weeks ago but I haven't noticed anything since.
Feeding: I feed the fry three or four times a day frozen baby brine shrimp. I just scrape some of the brine shrimp from the little frozen block and put it in the tank. This is why I do daily water changes. The fish seem healthy perfering the frozen mushy brine shrimp to the live hatched baby brine shrimp I tried to feed them on Saturday.
Any help, comments, suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.
/www.fishdeals.com/fish_diseases/planaria_white_worms/
I'll be giving the tank specifically the gravel a cleaning and feeding less. Again thanks, I'm very happy that the planaria are harmless. 
