Got worms?
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irishspy
There is a stargate in my aquarium.
I've been having an issue with these little red worms in my 10 gallon Red Cherry Shrimp tank for several months now. Unfortunately, the only remedy is to remove all occupants and replace the substrate--something I will be doing this week. Anyways, we went out for a bit this evening and this is what we came home to:
Just thought I would share. Pretty disgusting, huh? I've considered this a lesson learned--no more feeding my fish live worms!!
Cthulhu lives!!! :eek3:
Any update on whatever happened with these worms? Did you manage to cultivate them out of the original tank?
:laugh::rofl: Hilarious!
Well, as of right now, the worms are still residing in the tank. The worms and ramshorn snails have the tank to themselves. That's short-lived though because this weekend is THE weekend. I'm putting the ramshorns to rest, dumping the gravel into a bucket, and scrubbing the tank like a mofo to remove ramshorn eggs. By the end of the weekend, this will be a home for Yellow Shrimp. :grinyes: No more disgusting worms!! :silly: I really wish I knew someone that had a use for the substrate and worms rather than just letting them die.
If you think you could ship them I'll take them and keep them alive in my 6 gallon and use them as food for my tanks. Snails and worms along with the gravel.
I think you would have plenty of takers here at AC. It would be ashame to let this culture die, especially since they were originally an excellent chiclid food. Maybe you can sell them to your local LFS too! Good Luck whatever you do. This has been one interesting thread!
OK,
so I know this is resurrecting an old thread, but I've got the same problem now. Not QUITE as extensive as the pictures you posted, but the whole substrate is housing these tubifex worms, who stick their top half out, and zip back into the substrate way too fast to catch with a large tweezer.
I also tried vacuuming the substrate, and figured I'd get a ton, but was really surprised at how few ended up in the "dump" bucket, once the water cleared.
Now here's the weird part - this tank (a 30 g. low tech planted w/ a soil underlayer and Soilmaster Select as the top layer) is home to several geriatric harlequin rasboras, several dwarf cajun crays, a bunch of cherry shrimp, and two corys! I put the cories into this tank hoping they'd eat the worms. Then I added the crays hoping THEY would eat the worms. Either they're too fast for the other inhabitants to catch, or they are so dense that some predation doesn't even make a dent.
So what did you finally do with this tank? The little waving colony is starting to really annoy me. Plus, my fiance hasn't been nearly as eager to watch my tank with me since I pointed out the worms to him, LOL!
Any suggestions on what to do? I'm up against some similar issues, since this tank houses my growing cherry shrimp population - its heavily planted, and there are lots of places for young shrimp to hide.
Perhaps a Sparkling Gourami as a clean-up crew? They're fierce little hunters, and will probably pick off some baby cherry shrimp, but I've got a bunch of large frequently-berried adults, so if they can get the worms, I'd be willing to lose a wave of babies.
Any other thoughts on this?
Thanks much!
-Jane
so I know this is resurrecting an old thread, but I've got the same problem now. Not QUITE as extensive as the pictures you posted, but the whole substrate is housing these tubifex worms, who stick their top half out, and zip back into the substrate way too fast to catch with a large tweezer.
I also tried vacuuming the substrate, and figured I'd get a ton, but was really surprised at how few ended up in the "dump" bucket, once the water cleared.
Now here's the weird part - this tank (a 30 g. low tech planted w/ a soil underlayer and Soilmaster Select as the top layer) is home to several geriatric harlequin rasboras, several dwarf cajun crays, a bunch of cherry shrimp, and two corys! I put the cories into this tank hoping they'd eat the worms. Then I added the crays hoping THEY would eat the worms. Either they're too fast for the other inhabitants to catch, or they are so dense that some predation doesn't even make a dent.
So what did you finally do with this tank? The little waving colony is starting to really annoy me. Plus, my fiance hasn't been nearly as eager to watch my tank with me since I pointed out the worms to him, LOL!
Any suggestions on what to do? I'm up against some similar issues, since this tank houses my growing cherry shrimp population - its heavily planted, and there are lots of places for young shrimp to hide.
Perhaps a Sparkling Gourami as a clean-up crew? They're fierce little hunters, and will probably pick off some baby cherry shrimp, but I've got a bunch of large frequently-berried adults, so if they can get the worms, I'd be willing to lose a wave of babies.
Any other thoughts on this?
Thanks much!
-Jane
I have these in a couple of my tanks too.
they are tubifex worms, and many fish will eat them.
I just use a gravel vac to remove them from the tank.
No big deal.
The loaches love them..
they are tubifex worms, and many fish will eat them.
I just use a gravel vac to remove them from the tank.
No big deal.
The loaches love them..
Look at all that tubifex!!!!! Where in MD do you live? I might be able to tank a portion of them off of your hand. My betta will love you forever!
That is really amazingly cool...
... as long as it's not in my tank! LOL!
Would the solution be not to feed as much? Those worms HAVE to be eating something- surely to have a dense population of them you must be overfeeding?
... as long as it's not in my tank! LOL!
Would the solution be not to feed as much? Those worms HAVE to be eating something- surely to have a dense population of them you must be overfeeding?
