Help!!! Worms In My Tank!

Hi! So I set up a split 10 g for bettas, fluval, heater, live plants ect bought a betta, 2 days later he was dead, water parameters all okay. Cleaned it down let it cycle out for a week and got two more (one for each side) and they died within hours of eachother after about 2 days maybe less. I was like oh no! But again all water parameters tested FINE even amonia. Cleaned tank thoroughly down, cycled for 2 weeks all while guppies in it in between had no problem ( I kept my sponge filter in another tanks HOB while cleaning to keep my bacteria) tried again w just one betta and he died. I have several tanks and have always had success w bettas and I felt so bad over this. I called my LFS and thoroughly discussed everything with the worker. No idea what could be going on. Right now I have a guppy in it doing fine.

HOWEVER today I ordered snails and went to put them in there and saw TEENY WORMS AT THE BOTTOM. no idea what they are or how to treat
Got a rough picture of one next to a baby snail smaller than a dime.

 

What were you testing your water with? I don't think you can cycle a tank in 1-2 weeks unless your using established media from an already cycled tank.

 

Hard to tell from the pic but my guess would be detritus worms, they're harmless & fish will snack on them so free fish food really.

 

Yes I used some media from my bigger tanks
And whewwww thank goodness!
Any ideas about my string of betta murders?
And thank you!

Testing water with TETRA 6 in ones and TETRA ammonia strips

 

Yes I used some media from my bigger tanks
And whewwww thank goodness!
Any ideas about my string of betta murders?
And thank you!

Testing water with TETRA 6 in ones and TETRA ammonia strips

The apI kit will be more accurate than using strips ide invest in that before u add anything else honestly

 

I've been told to stay away from the stripes as they are not always reliable. Seems like everyone told me to get the API freshwater Master kit.

 

Yeah...no. the TETRA strips are definitely reliable and accurate. The API strips are TERRIBLE. The master kit just takes too long doing the SAME thing the tetra strips do all at once. Dont give advice on things you haven't done research on because it's often wrong advice. If I hadn't done EXTENSIVE and thorough testing of my own I would panic and go spend $40 I don't need to spend on a testing kit that's basically a waste on people with 5+ tanks to test regularly. One of my favorite fish blogs has covered this THOROUGHLY as well as done a video to show everyone the exact pros and cons PROVING that the strips are definetly reliable and accurate...and runs his entire store and buisness on the TETRA strips for years. That's good enough for me

 

Yeah...no. the TETRA strips are definitely reliable and accurate. The API strips are TERRIBLE. The master kit just takes too long doing the SAME thing the tetra strips do all at once. Dont give advice on things you haven't done research on because it's often wrong advice. If I hadn't done EXTENSIVE and thorough testing of my own I would panic and go spend $40 I don't need to spend on a testing kit that's basically a waste on people with 5+ tanks to test regularly. One of my favorite fish blogs has covered this THOROUGHLY as well as done a video to show everyone the exact pros and cons...and runs his entire store and buisness on the TETRA strips for years. That's good enough for me

Ok good luck!
Just making a suggestion seeing you lost 3 betta in no time.

 

I'd love a master kit. But I save for weeks to add to my hobby whether it's a plant or a build I'm working on or a live animal to add in. I don't have an "extra" $40 to spend on a kit that will take 4x as long per tank and be more expensive per test...especially when I'm mid project with my next several weeks of hobby money already mapped out to what I'll need next

Yes but I've brought my water to my LFS to be tested by them as well w their master and it was all the same as mine he said my tank is fine..that's why its holding my guppys fine.

 

MermaidShelby all test strips are inherently inaccurate because the water bleeds from one little test patch to another no matter how careful you are which will skew any results, they're not worth the money you pay for them but that's your choice & don't believe what any shop assistant tells you they're there to sell you things & take money off you, the guppy is probably 'doing fine' because they're mass bred & more tolerant of poor conditions than other fish.

 

Something is going on. You wouldn't have worms just coming out if you was "thoroughly" cleaning the tank out after each episode. Not that worms are bad, but something is missing out of the story. Maybe you got a disease in that tank that bettas are weak against, but that doesn't explain why they died in an hour.


Were you testing your water while your betta fish were in there? What did the readings look like? Don't just test it before you put them in and forget about it. More fish load will effect the cycle... and bettas are much bigger than guppies.