Eco-Complete: Complete with critters?

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ubermenehune

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Have a 10 gallon planted shrimp tank with this substrate. Noticed a lot of little white worms on the glass (nematodes or planaria, perhaps), cyclops, and other mystery free-swimming critters. Maybe some sort of rotifer.

Anyway, I added some mollie fry and within a few hours, the majority of the worms were gone.

Just wondering if this was your experience with this substrate. I admit I was probably a little over-enthusiastic with the feeding initially, but have scaled back. I wasn't sure if these hitchhikers came with the plants I've acquired or the eco-complete.
 

jbradt

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I've used eco-complete a lot and never had any issues with critters.
 
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