mollybabes
10-05-2003, 3:30 AM
This morning, My peacock eel was feeling poorly. He had a big chunck missing from his side, and was having problems swimming straight. I moved him From his Sixty gallon tank with large sized fish (Dojo loaches, Giant Danios, Rosy Barbs, Mollies and Clown loaches, all of which are much bigger than what you see in lfs.)
Anyway I moved him to the 29 gallon tank with just Baby mollies and the tiny danios, and a Dojo loach that had tried to kill himself by jumping out of the bigger tanka few weeks back.
Because of the Dojo's suicide attempt, there was already some melafix and stress coat in the tank, which is one of the reasons I put the Eel in there. The other is that the fish are less liekly to bother him. So I put some more melafix in there, and left for a day at work.
I come back home, and find him stuck to the filter, dead. :( My favorite fish. And On my birthday, too. So I scoop him out into a clear cup, so I can mourn over him.
But before I get a chance to, I see these worm-like things crawling over him. They are less than a centimeter long, light brown, have arrow shaped heads, are kinda flat, and crawl along like a slug.
Could someone please tell me what they are? Or give me a good websight that has pictures of such things? Are they bad for my tank? how do I get rid of them if they are? I'm afraid I may have infected both tanks because of my switcheroo.
BTW, I have had some changes to my tank lately. The original one the eel was in got a major overhaul. There was sand in it, we replaced it with gravel, some of it had been used before. It was rinsed, but could there be a chance that the worms were waiting in the gravel? It must be at least six months since we've used the gravel, and it wasn't stored wet at all. We put in new decorations, ones with caves away from light, but without a tunnelwork of holes that the fish hide in so long that we stress ourselves out thinking they've died in there, then stress them out by shaking them out. We also got new fish-2 small clown loaches, 2 silver mollies and 2 pineapple swordtails. I haven't tested the water yet, but I expect there will be fluctuations.
Any help would be wonderful, Thanks!!!!
(Sorry it's long)
Anyway I moved him to the 29 gallon tank with just Baby mollies and the tiny danios, and a Dojo loach that had tried to kill himself by jumping out of the bigger tanka few weeks back.
Because of the Dojo's suicide attempt, there was already some melafix and stress coat in the tank, which is one of the reasons I put the Eel in there. The other is that the fish are less liekly to bother him. So I put some more melafix in there, and left for a day at work.
I come back home, and find him stuck to the filter, dead. :( My favorite fish. And On my birthday, too. So I scoop him out into a clear cup, so I can mourn over him.
But before I get a chance to, I see these worm-like things crawling over him. They are less than a centimeter long, light brown, have arrow shaped heads, are kinda flat, and crawl along like a slug.
Could someone please tell me what they are? Or give me a good websight that has pictures of such things? Are they bad for my tank? how do I get rid of them if they are? I'm afraid I may have infected both tanks because of my switcheroo.
BTW, I have had some changes to my tank lately. The original one the eel was in got a major overhaul. There was sand in it, we replaced it with gravel, some of it had been used before. It was rinsed, but could there be a chance that the worms were waiting in the gravel? It must be at least six months since we've used the gravel, and it wasn't stored wet at all. We put in new decorations, ones with caves away from light, but without a tunnelwork of holes that the fish hide in so long that we stress ourselves out thinking they've died in there, then stress them out by shaking them out. We also got new fish-2 small clown loaches, 2 silver mollies and 2 pineapple swordtails. I haven't tested the water yet, but I expect there will be fluctuations.
Any help would be wonderful, Thanks!!!!
(Sorry it's long)