Help me identify these things....

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Khlash

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I have a planted 70g tank thats been up for about three weeks. There were fish in it but they have been removed to a hospital tank due to Ich, so as of now its just the plants and some snails. I keep seeing these tiny little "worms" for lack of a better description, that are between 2-4mm long and seem to be about the width of a human hair. They are always trying to swim toward the surface where they are then pushed back down by the current. Sorry no pics they are just too small. Any ideas what they could be? Do I need to be concerned? Thanks

Kyle
 
check google
 
If they are white, they are harmless. Simply a sign of two things, over feeding and lack of proper tank cleaning. You probably won't ever get rid of them, but I would look over your feeding and step up the amount of water changes your doing. This will reduce the population of them.
 
they are white..

Yeah they are white... I looked it up..they fit the description of Planaria.. I definitely havent been overfeeding because theres no fish in the tank right now... I used the Flourite substrate from mylast tank and it had lots of organic debris in it thats probably what they're eating.... It said somewhere online that some small fish might eat them....Oh well ..Ill do another water change tommorow, I can only root around in the substrate so much with injuring my plant roots, but ill do my best.

Kyle
 
Ok, but there's no point to Qting fish with ich. This is because once they have it, the whole tank maybe infected.
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If all fish are removed and QT'd then the treatment will be fine. the main tank will be ich free when the fish are returned. It isn't necessary to do this but in many cases it's easier to deal with the treatment in QT.
Dave
 
Ich is always present in the aquarium anyway. It just manifests itself and attacks the fish when they become weakend. It still is best to QT any affected fish and treat them outside the main tank. If the fish are getting ich its because something is wrong in the aquarium, healthy stress free fish don't get it. Something is amiss if you do have it.
 
I have to disagree with you NatakuTseng. If your fish get ich, it's because it was introduced into the aquarium. Ich is NOT always present in the tank. If this were true, then how would treatment be effective? And healthy fish can get ich too, although fish that are not perfectly healthy will be more prone to it. Some species are more prone to being affected than others as well.
 
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Aqualung said:
I have to disagree with you NatakuTseng. If your fish get ich, it's because it was introduced into the aquarium. Ich is NOT always present in the tank. If this were true, then how would treatment be effective? And healthy fish can get ich too, although fish that are not perfectly healthy will be more prone to it.
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Exactly what I based my comment off of.
 
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