Kizzle Posted August 14, 2018 Report Share Posted August 14, 2018 Just discovered a white worm going down my tank glass! (Thought it was milk running down) hard to tell if it is detritus or planaria?? it looked 1 and half cm long moved quick! Saw a very tiny white worm version as well I haven’t over feed my tank, added one tiny algae wafer but shrimp never ate it, lots of algae growth in tank how can I diagnose what worm this is?? are they harmful? Will I need to strip tank down? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madcrafted Posted August 14, 2018 Report Share Posted August 14, 2018 Most critters in our shrimp tanks are decomposers but there are a couple I try to look out for like planaria and hydra. Hydra is easy to identify. Planaria is too, once you know what to look for. They have a triangular head with two dots (eyes?). They are often confused with rhabdocoela, which are harmless. New tanks and tanks that are overfed usually have an abundance of these guys. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kizzle Posted August 15, 2018 Author Report Share Posted August 15, 2018 I did have Java moss that brought in Planaria into my tank it had the triangle head. but this was before I brought any shrimp, so I discarded the water and boiled the soil and gave the plants a quick rinse i saw the boiled bodies of the planaria (just turned into round gooey balls) flushed them down the sink im guessing they may have survived in the plant still? When I re-setup tbis is time I got shrimp in the tank Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MNCarpenter Posted August 21, 2018 Report Share Posted August 21, 2018 Can you post a picture of the bugger. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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