I have to go to my daughters house and help her deal with the same issue today. Going to do a gravel vac and 50% water change. Her Betta will occasionally eat a few of them, but they are not really on his list of good things to eat.
Thank you for the video. Today is the first time I noticed these tiny guys. I guess I never noticed them and I've had aquariums for years.... Again "Thank you"
I have these in mt cycling tank (that has nothing in it until recently, I added just 2 shrimp) so annoying since the tank gets a water change every 3 days. I think they came off a plant I got.
I put a small mesh barrier on one side of my tank, and put guppies in the section and the worms were gone . The guppies ate all of the detritus worms :0
@@DanHiteshew-oneandonly awesome, if you could, tonight I posted a vid about some type of inverts, I would like help IDing, that I found in my bowl of aquatic plants. Please and thank you! At about 15 seconds into my vid, I have one center framed.
These nematodes are a harmless part of the ecosystem - they're in most aquariums, but may never be seen, as they live in the substrate. If you see them floating around in abundance, you need too do more water changes, and cut back on the food for a while. They're eating excess nutrients out of the water column.
@@VetaPhoenix that's actually really interesting! I've never seen them before until I added an air stone because my betta was having trouble breathing!
Does fertilizer act as food for them as well (tropica aquarium soil or seachem flourish)? I have a completely un stocked planted tank they are currently populating quite a bit
When I got these detritus worms in my tank, from a plant. They took over and I had massive fish loss. They got into their gills. The only survivors were small fish which ate them and rugged bottom feeders, like plecos.
Then it wasn't detritus worms, it was a actual parasite. Detritus worms aren't harmful in any way, and practically every fish eats them besides sucker mouth fish like plecos.
Dan, just make a coke bottle air filter filled with poly wool. That's what I do. Water changes don't really work, especially if you vacuum at the same time, it seems to stir up more.
This vid put my mind at ease. I have a tank with 2 African dwarf frogs, 2 mystery snails and a bunch if pond snails (need to reduce the pond snail population, they had babies, would now it's mostly just pond snails any way, I was doing a head count (I do this nightly) and I put a pinch of flake food in, to lure out the frogs (one is a new guy) so I could see them and check if anything is wrong. I then saw what looked like a bunch of fur floating in the tank (not unusual, I have furry animals and tiger fur gets everywhere) but I saw one wiggle. So I watched it, thinking the curent from the filter caused the life like wiggle, and the more I looked, the more little worms I saw naturally, I freaked out. Panicked. And this is part of my bed time routine, so, no sleep for me now. Lol Any way, to get to the point, I have another tank, that has some corys, goldfish, gourami and guppies. My question is, is it confirmed that corys eat the worms? Because the internet is 50/50 on that. And if they don't, is there a fish from the list I mentioned I could/should add to help minimize the worm population? Sorry for the long comment thank you in advance for any help. :)
try adding a mechanical filtration system while you do a water change and gravel maintenance using suction. the combo should reduce population massively. ie add poly fiber to a water bottle and attach to your power head if you have one. that will scoop up the floaters
I got rid of these by doing a complete substrate change. I kept good bacteria with my hang on back filter and sponge filters just replaced the gravel. What worked for you?
I have these in my turtle tank, with no gravel. Cleaning and Water changes doesnt help. Recently removed my driftwood hoping it helps because all i can see is white worms everywhere !
@@HeadingForTomorrow i mean everything was cleaned and fully scrubbed and if i couldnt clean it, it hasnt gone back in. My tank had bogwood which has all been binned.
they also live in the filter, i found out week ago when i was cleaning my pre-media filter and saw some of them in the water, so i did a quick research and found out they also live in the filter. I clean my filter media and did a gravel vacuum and it help quite a lot
Jeez I hate those detritus things. I have 2 turtles in different tanks. The big turtle (14) has never had worms in there and hes been with me since baby age, but after feeding a few live things last summer, I noticed worms in the fall/winter. Same with the small turtle (1 year old). I removed their substrate and boiled everything down. I have a canister filter for the big turtle and a small filter for the little turtle. After 2x cleaning like this, the worms in the big tank were gone. But they're back in the small tank now for the 3rd time -.- they just sit on the glass floor and on the sides. I've reduced the feeding a little, but I suppose they're hiding in the top part of the filter where the propeller sits, that is very difficult to clean because I cannot open it up to scrub it and boil it down like the canister! Ugh!! so annoying..... I always have to dry-dock the poor little guy for 1 whole day when cleaning his tank cause I pour boiling water into it, let it sit, drain it, scoop up dead worms while it drains... and repeat at least 3 or 4 times. Same with equipment. 😤😩😩😩
I've had tanks for over 30 years and never seen worms of any kind but 3 days ago I seen very tiny white things on the glass. They actually look like tiny hairs. Ty for your video because I've been working on my tank for the last hour or so scalding everything inside and the filters... Have an intake/outtake hose but am disabled an waiting for someone to help. If I completely clean everything will they go away????
I honestly can't say. I'm not even sure how they get in there in the first place. Usually a bit more gravel vaccing and a bit less feeding and they'll "go away" to the point where you don't see them. they're harmless and help break down uneaten debris. you can think of them as part of your clean-up crew.
Since these guys thrive on waste, you can also find them hanging out in your filter. They can multiply like crazy in there if you dont clean or change it out enough. From what I've heard, they can hitch a ride in some frozen fish foods, pellets or even just when youre introducing new fish to the aquarium. Excessive feeding and waste also allows them to thrive
Probably. If you look really close, detritus worms are tubeworms, so they'll look like little white tubes with no real distinguishable "head". Planaria will be flatworms that have a distinct, triangular or arrowhead shaped head.
I have a 5.5 freah water, heated,filtered with live plants and a few snails(2 nerites), some copepods. Eco-complete is my substrate. I have never had fish in it, had 4 shrimp a few years ago and fed once a week. The shrimp have all passed, the last one in may 2019. So the detritus worms are I think eating my plants. I find them in my anubius plant roots and under leaves and on the roots of my frogwort. They are healthy till the worms get on them. Anyone else have this problem?
Thomas Mccowan I had neons and they’ve always ate any detritus worms they saw. They were crazy for them. They will eventually realize that they are food
from what im reading they cause no harm to fish for the most part. can they cause harm to us? if im cleaning my tank and have some cuts should i worry at all? i do wash my hands with soap after im done cleaning the fish tanks or done with them for the day.
I saw a worm floating in my water column today. I sucked it out, and have no idea what it is. It was super thin, like a thread, and sort of red in color. Could it have been a detritus worm? Can they be red? I know there is the camallanus, but I'd rather not dose my tank with chemicals if I don't have to. Part of my problem is that I had no idea that detritus worms could float.
It sounds like a detritus worm, except for the "red" part. Not sur if there are any red species, but it's possible. If they aren't bothering your fish, I wouldn't get too worried.
@@DanHiteshew-oneandonly Okay, thank you! I like that philosophy. Sometimes it is easy to stress out when you see something you don't expect, though. Most of the unexpected creatures (zooplankton, mainly) have been easy to look up, because they are all sort of distinct. Worms seem to be much harder to identify, if all the search results from duck duck go are anything to go by.
I’m having this same issue in my nano planted tank .. did you ever fully get rid of them ? My water was crystal clear till these things arrived like a swarm in the water, i have a canister and HOB running . I really do not feel like starting over as i did the dry start method for my lovely carpet :(
Any updates on how this tank is doing with respect to the detritus worms? I set up a new tank over the summer, my first with ecocomplete substrate, and I have detritus worms in the water column...the tank has an extremely low bio load and I am feeding sparingly, also doing 30-50% weekly water changes with a lot of substrate vac-ing...I haven’t been able to get ahead of these guys.
Looks like too many detritus worms, few good gravel vac sessions and water and filter media change would be helpful in keeping them in check. I remember my neon and cardinal tetras would be all over them when they got stirred up.
If you see alot of them, youre probably over feeding your fish. Your fish need to eat the worms. They cant do that if they're too full. And your excess food falls to the bottom of the tank. So cut back on your food and let your fish do some cleaning up natures way.
@@DanHiteshew-oneandonly thanks Dan. My worms are still on the glass I will stop feeding for 3-4 days. I have 3" ghost crayfish and 2 dwarf adult gouramis. Is there anything else I should try. My glass is covered in tiny dust-like worms.
well im now joining the worm club .Detritus, cant get rid of them one tank is gravel less fishless so im Bombing the tank salt and fenbendazole .How ever you spell it.
Yes get rid of the suckers. I can't salt bomb them I have crayfish and other fish in there. I just noticed high levels of nitrates, so I'll be doing water changes. No idea how these spread so much.
hey dan...did i make you mad or something? all that i can think of is that driving game where you said these games have come a long way, and i remarked ya you have come a long way baby, i was referring to an old commercial..just trying to be funny, very sorry.
James Avery no. I never got the comment. From my end, you just stopped responding to me, so after about a week of silence, I figured you weren't interested anymore.
That's what I thought, but after a week or so, I figured I had said something to piss you off. Lol I kept leaving my inane comments, just to let you know I had watched it, but I got no responeses for over a week, so I gradually commented less and less until I stopped.
@@judgementsans8640 I got tiny worms on my glass, there are thousands of them. I think they appeared after I got my cray, but I cant tell. Maybe cray messed up food everywhere.
@@HeadingForTomorrow I would recommend getting a wild catfish. They will eat the worms fast. I had an outbreak and the baby bullhead catfish I'm raising ate them all
@@judgementsans8640 thanks. I have two gouramis and large adult cray in 10gal. It's at capacity. I am trying to cycle another tank. Maybe I'll the to move these fish there and catfish or placo?
Been fish keeping for 25 years, never had these... Then boom i started a fancy goldfish recently and these are all over the place
I have to go to my daughters house and help her deal with the same issue today. Going to do a gravel vac and 50% water change. Her Betta will occasionally eat a few of them, but they are not really on his list of good things to eat.
It's good worm no problem to fish stop feeding to fish
Thank you for the video. Today is the first time I noticed these tiny guys. I guess I never noticed them and I've had aquariums for years.... Again "Thank you"
I have these in mt cycling tank (that has nothing in it until recently, I added just 2 shrimp) so annoying since the tank gets a water change every 3 days. I think they came off a plant I got.
I put a small mesh barrier on one side of my tank, and put guppies in the section and the worms were gone . The guppies ate all of the detritus worms :0
I realize it's quite randomly asking but does anyone know of a good site to stream new tv shows online?
@@mitchelllyle6061 hmm. 2 accounts that were created at the same time, replying to eachother. Get out of here you scamming loser.
Add oxygen and get some Cory's. With more oxygen, they stay in the substrate. Cory's (or loaches) will keep them in check.
It's almost impossible to rid of them so the best thing to do is just reduce the numbers. You can use worm traps.
I get the worms on the glass occasionally, but never free floating. Like you said, they don't bother me either. Tank looks great otherwise.
Those are planaria
@@nikhilgupta7842 juvenile detritus worms can stick on glass. They'll fall into the gravel when big enough.
My first video of yours, love the fact the video is 1.5 years old and you're still answering questions. Gained my sub.
Thanks! I try to respond to any comment I get notified about.
@@DanHiteshew-oneandonly awesome, if you could, tonight I posted a vid about some type of inverts, I would like help IDing, that I found in my bowl of aquatic plants. Please and thank you! At about 15 seconds into my vid, I have one center framed.
Tetras are the best at keeping Detritus Worms numbers low.
These nematodes are a harmless part of the ecosystem - they're in most aquariums, but may never be seen, as they live in the substrate. If you see them floating around in abundance, you need too do more water changes, and cut back on the food for a while. They're eating excess nutrients out of the water column.
@@VetaPhoenix that's actually really interesting! I've never seen them before until I added an air stone because my betta was having trouble breathing!
Does fertilizer act as food for them as well (tropica aquarium soil or seachem flourish)? I have a completely un stocked planted tank they are currently populating quite a bit
@@djmoases i suspect the same . I actually overdose the liquid fertilizer because my floating plant is dying .
Are they contagious to humans?
@@kirsten3802 Lol no
When I got these detritus worms in my tank, from a plant. They took over and I had massive fish loss. They got into their gills. The only survivors were small fish which ate them and rugged bottom feeders, like plecos.
Then it wasn't detritus worms, it was a actual parasite. Detritus worms aren't harmful in any way, and practically every fish eats them besides sucker mouth fish like plecos.
Thanks for this video! I just noticed these in my tank. I'm still learning so this was very helpful.
Dan, just make a coke bottle air filter filled with poly wool. That's what I do. Water changes don't really work, especially if you vacuum at the same time, it seems to stir up more.
can you elaborate?
The T-Bar Cichlid is a cool fish. Love your vids Dan. Keep em coming!
This vid put my mind at ease. I have a tank with 2 African dwarf frogs, 2 mystery snails and a bunch if pond snails (need to reduce the pond snail population, they had babies, would now it's mostly just pond snails any way, I was doing a head count (I do this nightly) and I put a pinch of flake food in, to lure out the frogs (one is a new guy) so I could see them and check if anything is wrong. I then saw what looked like a bunch of fur floating in the tank (not unusual, I have furry animals and tiger fur gets everywhere) but I saw one wiggle. So I watched it, thinking the curent from the filter caused the life like wiggle, and the more I looked, the more little worms I saw naturally, I freaked out. Panicked. And this is part of my bed time routine, so, no sleep for me now. Lol
Any way, to get to the point, I have another tank, that has some corys, goldfish, gourami and guppies.
My question is, is it confirmed that corys eat the worms? Because the internet is 50/50 on that.
And if they don't, is there a fish from the list I mentioned I could/should add to help minimize the worm population?
Sorry for the long comment thank you in advance for any help. :)
try adding a mechanical filtration system while you do a water change and gravel maintenance using suction. the combo should reduce population massively.
ie add poly fiber to a water bottle and attach to your power head if you have one. that will scoop up the floaters
You can borrow my betta he loves eating them haha
Lol
I realised my bettas love to eat them
My betta loves them as well.
Same, he constantly searches for them. I doubt I need to even feed him anymore lmao
@@BritishAlbedo probably won't need to feed much i havent feed them for 4 weeks and are fat and healthy
Mosquito fish will rid any larvae and worms, highly recommended
@Kenny Argueta Ventura very true. They got rid of 3 different worms for me and even cleaned my water! Also fed my turtles so they were happy too
I got rid of these by doing a complete substrate change. I kept good bacteria with my hang on back filter and sponge filters just replaced the gravel. What worked for you?
I have these in my turtle tank, with no gravel. Cleaning and Water changes doesnt help. Recently removed my driftwood hoping it helps because all i can see is white worms everywhere !
Did you get rid of them eventually? I have non in the gravel but I see some swimming around. Glass is covered with them.
@@HeadingForTomorrow Yep got rid of it, but by emptying the huge tank and cleaning every thing thoroughly
@@katrinagalligan1706 I am emptying 60% of mine and vacuuming gravel, what else did you do, like what do you mean thoroughly? Thanks again.
@@HeadingForTomorrow i mean everything was cleaned and fully scrubbed and if i couldnt clean it, it hasnt gone back in. My tank had bogwood which has all been binned.
they also live in the filter, i found out week ago when i was cleaning my pre-media filter and saw some of them in the water, so i did a quick research and found out they also live in the filter. I clean my filter media and did a gravel vacuum and it help quite a lot
I don't undestend why the fish didn't eat them!?
Some fish will eat them, but they live buried in the substrate so fish seldom see them until there's a huge population explosion.
@@DanHiteshew-oneandonly thanks for the explanation! 👍
Jeez I hate those detritus things. I have 2 turtles in different tanks. The big turtle (14) has never had worms in there and hes been with me since baby age, but after feeding a few live things last summer, I noticed worms in the fall/winter. Same with the small turtle (1 year old). I removed their substrate and boiled everything down. I have a canister filter for the big turtle and a small filter for the little turtle. After 2x cleaning like this, the worms in the big tank were gone. But they're back in the small tank now for the 3rd time -.- they just sit on the glass floor and on the sides. I've reduced the feeding a little, but I suppose they're hiding in the top part of the filter where the propeller sits, that is very difficult to clean because I cannot open it up to scrub it and boil it down like the canister! Ugh!! so annoying..... I always have to dry-dock the poor little guy for 1 whole day when cleaning his tank cause I pour boiling water into it, let it sit, drain it, scoop up dead worms while it drains... and repeat at least 3 or 4 times. Same with equipment. 😤😩😩😩
I've had tanks for over 30 years and never seen worms of any kind but 3 days ago I seen very tiny white things on the glass. They actually look like tiny hairs. Ty for your video because I've been working on my tank for the last hour or so scalding everything inside and the filters... Have an intake/outtake hose but am disabled an waiting for someone to help.
If I completely clean everything will they go away????
I honestly can't say. I'm not even sure how they get in there in the first place. Usually a bit more gravel vaccing and a bit less feeding and they'll "go away" to the point where you don't see them. they're harmless and help break down uneaten debris. you can think of them as part of your clean-up crew.
@@DanHiteshew-oneandonly Thank you so much for replying 💛
@@randallynngraham83 Glad to. Hope it helped.
The thing that wonders me is that the fish dont eat the worms.
Most fish don't for some reason, but a few species will. (I thought guppies would)
I had only one outbreak and my neighbor told me to put in rock salt into the tank. Try adding a corydora.
will methylene blue kill internal worms, planaria and detritus? and can planaria free swim?
Have this issue now in my betta tank! No idea where they came from... no substrate and clean tank.
I really don't know where they come from either. They just seem to appear.
Since these guys thrive on waste, you can also find them hanging out in your filter. They can multiply like crazy in there if you dont clean or change it out enough. From what I've heard, they can hitch a ride in some frozen fish foods, pellets or even just when youre introducing new fish to the aquarium. Excessive feeding and waste also allows them to thrive
I have a bunch on the surface of the water and the sides of the glass. They are tiny and they wiggle. Is this detritus worms?
Probably. If you look really close, detritus worms are tubeworms, so they'll look like little white tubes with no real distinguishable "head". Planaria will be flatworms that have a distinct, triangular or arrowhead shaped head.
I have a 5.5 freah water, heated,filtered with live plants and a few snails(2 nerites), some copepods. Eco-complete is my substrate. I have never had fish in it, had 4 shrimp a few years ago and fed once a week. The shrimp have all passed, the last one in may 2019. So the detritus worms are I think eating my plants. I find them in my anubius plant roots and under leaves and on the roots of my frogwort. They are healthy till the worms get on them. Anyone else have this problem?
I've never noticed anything like that, but all my tanks have fish in them.
Thats a good lookin cichlid.. Never seen it before
It's real name is Cryptoheros sajica.
Stop feeding your tank for a few days and they will get hungry and eat them!
beth98362 R all fish I've ever cared for would only spit then back out. Seems like nothing really eats them. Lol
Thomas Mccowan I had neons and they’ve always ate any detritus worms they saw. They were crazy for them. They will eventually realize that they are food
6 red cherry shrimps are in my tank, are they eat white warm ?
@@maheshbirje8040 Ive had better fish that would eat the detritus worms
Thomas M
Endless and mollies eat them
guppies eat them i have a few after stirring the substrate maybe just put some guppies in and do it and keep doing it til they go =D
I saw this on patreon but could not watch it (cause I only follow you) and Happy Thanksgiving!
Thanks! You too!
I started up a new 2.5 gallon not long ago it has a betta and it was completely sterile in about a week I got detritus worms😐😑
me to except i have a 10g with 1 betta
Sounds like it wasn't sterile.
What’s that big cichlid looking guy 🤩
T Bar cichlid (Cryptoheros sajica)
from what im reading they cause no harm to fish for the most part. can they cause harm to us? if im cleaning my tank and have some cuts should i worry at all? i do wash my hands with soap after im done cleaning the fish tanks or done with them for the day.
No, they're harmless.
@@DanHiteshew-oneandonly well thank god, my brain went right to zombie vampire leeches infesting me lmfao but thanks for helping a newbie :D
I was thinking the same thing...omg siphoning.....
I saw a worm floating in my water column today. I sucked it out, and have no idea what it is. It was super thin, like a thread, and sort of red in color.
Could it have been a detritus worm? Can they be red?
I know there is the camallanus, but I'd rather not dose my tank with chemicals if I don't have to.
Part of my problem is that I had no idea that detritus worms could float.
It sounds like a detritus worm, except for the "red" part. Not sur if there are any red species, but it's possible. If they aren't bothering your fish, I wouldn't get too worried.
@@DanHiteshew-oneandonly Okay, thank you! I like that philosophy. Sometimes it is easy to stress out when you see something you don't expect, though.
Most of the unexpected creatures (zooplankton, mainly) have been easy to look up, because they are all sort of distinct.
Worms seem to be much harder to identify, if all the search results from duck duck go are anything to go by.
I’m having this same issue in my nano planted tank .. did you ever fully get rid of them ? My water was crystal clear till these things arrived like a swarm in the water, i have a canister and HOB running . I really do not feel like starting over as i did the dry start method for my lovely carpet :(
I probably still have them, but I don't see them anymore.
Feed less and vac more and they'll just go away or reduce to un-noticable amounts.
Do you know if Planaria affect turtles?
I wish i had detritus worms
LarzAquatics just do monthly water changes instead of weekly lol then extend it longer and longer
Would a UV sterilizer do anything?
I have one running on this tank.
Any updates on how this tank is doing with respect to the detritus worms?
I set up a new tank over the summer, my first with ecocomplete substrate, and I have detritus worms in the water column...the tank has an extremely low bio load and I am feeding sparingly, also doing 30-50% weekly water changes with a lot of substrate vac-ing...I haven’t been able to get ahead of these guys.
That's interesting. I'm getting on top of them without much difficulty.
An update will be out tomorrow, I think.
Dan Hiteshew threw in a few zebra danios and they ate ALL the detritus worms! I’ve never seen such happy fish :)
They've cleared up for the most part.
Seen a couple of these in my tank from time to time and my angelfish eats them, and basically anything else that fits in his gob.
It's so strange the fish don't eat them
I thought the same thing. You'd think the fish would make short work of them.
Looks like too many detritus worms, few good gravel vac sessions and water and filter media change would be helpful in keeping them in check.
I remember my neon and cardinal tetras would be all over them when they got stirred up.
Hey just a friendly reminder to go check your minnow trap
Lol Yeah, I just remembered about an hour ago.
How's the tank now tho?
I saw my guppies dying right after eating one.
Same.
Just heard that corys will eat them!
Corys will eat planaria
If you see alot of them, youre probably over feeding your fish. Your fish need to eat the worms. They cant do that if they're too full. And your excess food falls to the bottom of the tank. So cut back on your food and let your fish do some cleaning up natures way.
One hatchett fish looks seriosly ill. Swim bladder I think.
Yeah, it's been like that for about a week now.
Not meaning to be rude but you better cull it. And add at least five more hatchett fish because they suffer when kept in too low numbers.
Did you found out how to kill them?
Not really "kill", but more maintenance and less food will reduce them to where you don't see them, but they may still be there.
Don't feed the fish for a week and they'll hunt down all detritus worms
Isn't there any type of fish that would eat them?
My angelfish does :)
Are these worms harmful to humans?
Not that I know of.
@@DanHiteshew-oneandonly thanks Dan. My worms are still on the glass I will stop feeding for 3-4 days. I have 3" ghost crayfish and 2 dwarf adult gouramis. Is there anything else I should try. My glass is covered in tiny dust-like worms.
@@HeadingForTomorrow Vac the gravel when you do water changes if you can. That should help
@@DanHiteshew-oneandonly :( Kind of feel weird putting my hand in that water. :( I just imagine the worms sticking to my arm.
@@HeadingForTomorrow Lol No, but I'd certain wash my hands after being in the tank.
Tokill off all invertebrates use a copper based medication. I used to use Clout.
I like when I get them cus the fish eat them
What kind of cichlid is that
I think you're asking about the T Bar cichlid (Cryptoheros sajica)
well im now joining the worm club .Detritus, cant get rid of them one tank is gravel less fishless so im Bombing the tank salt and fenbendazole .How ever you spell it.
Yes get rid of the suckers. I can't salt bomb them I have crayfish and other fish in there. I just noticed high levels of nitrates, so I'll be doing water changes. No idea how these spread so much.
If i put guppy in my tank ,my bichir would simply eat iy
the t bar is annoying
hey dan...did i make you mad or something? all that i can think of is that driving game where you said these games have come a long way, and i remarked ya you have come a long way baby, i was referring to an old commercial..just trying to be funny, very sorry.
James Avery no. I never got the comment. From my end, you just stopped responding to me, so after about a week of silence, I figured you weren't interested anymore.
no way there must have been some sort of mistake i would never ignore your post's!
That's what I thought, but after a week or so, I figured I had said something to piss you off. Lol
I kept leaving my inane comments, just to let you know I had watched it, but I got no responeses for over a week, so I gradually commented less and less until I stopped.
i don't know but i looked and i seem to have responded to your post's, must be something wrong somewhere. ps this is a good vid thank's!
James Avery maybe I wasn't getting the notifications. That's not uncommon to miss some, but I vw never had TH-cam block someone's altogether. Lol
those are planaria,not detritus worms. u should cleaning that tank as planaria can be dangerous. detritus worms are not dangerous unless oxygen is low
How can you tell from this video?
@@HeadingForTomorrow planaria are bigger than that. Detritus worms are that size or smaller. I've had detritus before
@@judgementsans8640 I got tiny worms on my glass, there are thousands of them. I think they appeared after I got my cray, but I cant tell. Maybe cray messed up food everywhere.
@@HeadingForTomorrow I would recommend getting a wild catfish. They will eat the worms fast. I had an outbreak and the baby bullhead catfish I'm raising ate them all
@@judgementsans8640 thanks. I have two gouramis and large adult cray in 10gal. It's at capacity. I am trying to cycle another tank. Maybe I'll the to move these fish there and catfish or placo?
Mosquito fish will rid any larvae and worms, highly recommended