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Hi all,
I FINALLY got my tank cycled and picked up two platies to start my 20 gallon tank (I'll get two more in a week). I looked in on the tank regularly as I had it cycle and never saw these worms before. Now that I added the fish, a day later I started seeing these little worms.
Only ever one at a time, but there is usually one visible on my glass at least every hour. I have only seen one swimming around and then it attached to the glass. All others I have been able to video I have seen on the glass. Also, they seem to leave this weird film on the glass where they have attached and crawled (pictured below).
Do I have the dreaded planaria worms or just detritus worms? If I have planaria, how best to go about getting rid of them? Should I be concerned? Could they be rhabdocoela instead? They don't seem to have the arrow like head or eyes like planaria. Unfortunately the pictures looked much better on my phone, here they are pretty grainy. This is the most clear one I got (the two worms in the photo is actually it's reflection- it's really just 1 worm).
I have only had my fish two days- they both are eating well and active. I don't think I have been overfeeding as they have only had three meals total and have eaten all the food as far as I have seen. Water is ammonia 0, nitrite 0 and nitrates 15 ppm. I just did a 90% water change on Tuesday and cleaned all my decorations the week before.
Any feedback would be great!
I FINALLY got my tank cycled and picked up two platies to start my 20 gallon tank (I'll get two more in a week). I looked in on the tank regularly as I had it cycle and never saw these worms before. Now that I added the fish, a day later I started seeing these little worms.
Only ever one at a time, but there is usually one visible on my glass at least every hour. I have only seen one swimming around and then it attached to the glass. All others I have been able to video I have seen on the glass. Also, they seem to leave this weird film on the glass where they have attached and crawled (pictured below).
Do I have the dreaded planaria worms or just detritus worms? If I have planaria, how best to go about getting rid of them? Should I be concerned? Could they be rhabdocoela instead? They don't seem to have the arrow like head or eyes like planaria. Unfortunately the pictures looked much better on my phone, here they are pretty grainy. This is the most clear one I got (the two worms in the photo is actually it's reflection- it's really just 1 worm).
I have only had my fish two days- they both are eating well and active. I don't think I have been overfeeding as they have only had three meals total and have eaten all the food as far as I have seen. Water is ammonia 0, nitrite 0 and nitrates 15 ppm. I just did a 90% water change on Tuesday and cleaned all my decorations the week before.
Any feedback would be great!
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