Camallanus worms?

stephybabe88

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Found two dead fish today and looked like worms were coming out of them. Grossed me out!!!!

They were white/pink/red. Spade shaped head (or tail I guess) and only a few centimeters long.

How bad is this?

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stephybabe88

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55g, just did about 1/2 wc yesterday (usually weekly, sometimes every two weeks), inhabitants are blue tetras, emerald cories, flame tetras, pineapple swordtail, pristella tetras, Nerite snails, RCS, many plants.

Nothing has been added in a couple months.

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read threw this thread...allot of good info and how to treat.

http://www.aquariacentral.com/forum...llamanus-Worms-now-you-see-them-now-you-don-t

good luck

 

Lillyan

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Those worms are seen as very thin, thread-like red worms coming out of the bum. I've never seen them free swimming. I would think those are planaria from sub-par cleaning and over feeding than being C worms.
A dewormer will get rid of them either way.

When you've dealt with both, you can tell the difference.

 

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Lillyan

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These are Camallanus worms.

 

Lillyan

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These are Planaria.

 

stephybabe88

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Yea they are the second one. I'm usually pretty good about cleaning but in the last couple months I have had to go out of town unexpectedly and went two weeks between wc both times. Are dewormers safe for snails and shrimp?

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I've used dewormer successfully in a shrimp tank. I'm not going to lie and say they "enjoyed" it, but they lived through it. Snails seemed to like it even less, but didn't notice a die off. Knocked out my worm problem though.