Help!! Tiny white worms in tank!!!

HELP!!!!!

This morning I was feeding my betta and I noticed the walls of the tank looked like they had tiny white hairs on them -- VERY TINY HAIRS. I put my face closer and saw the tiny white hairs MOVED, they're little WORMS!

WHAT ARE THESE!!!!!!!!!!

I JUST CLEANED MY TANK 100% WC on Saturday and thoroughly rinsed the gravel.

What caused them?????

I did start feeding live wingless fruit flies.

Would the TSS+ do this?? I just added it yesterday and noticed the worms this morning. They are BARELY visible. There are literally hundreds of them on the tank wall. They look like tiny, tiny white eyelash hairs.

I am such a failure, I can't even keep a 10 gal aquarium!!!!!!!!

 

Hun I have some in my 10 gallon shrimp tank, most are harmless and stay in the substrate, only coming up if there is an excess of food (algea) on the walls or top of the substrate, I would just try to suck them out with a turkey baster, you'd be supprised what little microorganisims live in an established tank, most so small you never notice them until they leave the coverage of the substrate, and only get in high numbers if the food source is good

Do they look like the ones on this website

 

YES!!!! But smaller, I guess they may grow. UGH GROSS
BET THEY CAME IN ON THE FLIES

 

Probably, did come in on the flies, which is why I feed the puffers frozen bloodworms instead of live and anything else they eat (snails and shrimp ) they hunt for in the tank

 

Do they scurry around and look like little hairs? They are probably some variation of the copepods. My Betta tank gets them too and the numbers go up and down.

I don't see any in my main tank - maybe because the water is several degrees cooler??????

They are harmless and a normal tank is supposed to have some - most people probably don't see them cause they are pretty tiny.

I would say if you are doing regular maintenance then everything is probably good.

 

More likely they've been in your substrate and/or filtration for a long time. The 100% water change and gravel rinse would have removed most of their food (the mulm and detritus that builds up). Now they're out looking for more.

Almost every tank has them.

 

Google detritus worms that's what they sound like. If your betta realizes theyre food he'll be very happy.

 

Yeah, I'll bet detritus worms too.

 

Hopefully everyone else answered your question.

As to you being a failure at fishkeeping, clearly you are not. In fact, the fact that you think that is usually an indicator of you being a GOOD fish keeper.

And just for the record, using the fact that you've had issues in a 10gal as a failure guage isn't very reliable. Smaller tanks are actually HARDER to keep stable and healthy. They are more susceptible to fluctuation and there is less water to dilute any foreign contaminant.