Planeria

Do angelfish fry eat planeria (don't know if I spelled it right tiny white worms)? I think that it comes from overfeeding, doesn't it?

According to Mr. Google, they're harmless, and I've heard that angelfish fry can eat them. On the other hand, they develop in aquariums with high ammonia levels, which for us is anything over zero. You probably are over feeding or under maintaining.

Oh oh well just checked my ammonia levels and they are at 0 and I do water changes twice or three times a week of 30 percent. I have bare bottom tanks. Hummmm leave it to me to be different maybe I need to up the amount of water per change

Do you have live plants? They can help water quality.

Are they big enough that you can determine the head? I have some weird stuff in my shrimp tank...

I have daphnia, daphnia magna, Odd other swimming things, and these odd white worms... The biggest ones are nearly an inch long... They have triangle heads... Even though I failed out of Zoology... I think that means nematode??? Could be the planaria... I'm going to look it up.

Hydra are bad for little fry... and they're a REAL pain to get rid of in fry tanks...

I'm going to research...

I'd say when the fry get bigger, my guess is, they'll take care of the planaria...

Just make sure to stop watching those 1950s monster movies about tiny, wiggly things that turn into giant wiggly things out to eat downtown Seattle.

I love monster movies! But I don't think mine are monsters. I am sure now that they are planaria. They are tiny thread like white worms that stick to the side of the glass. Much too small to see what kind of head they have. I looked up hydra on the internet and that is not what I have. I think I had these one time before and it was from overfeeding. I will wipe the glass and do water changes tomorrow, and cut down on the feeding.

johnarthur wrote:

Just make sure to stop watching those 1950s monster movies about tiny, wiggly things that turn into giant wiggly things out to eat downtown Seattle. :woohoo:

LOL

I definately have Planaria in my cherry shrimp tank.

I looked it up... and that's them.