i took plants out of my pond to be put in my white cloud breeder tank but there are these little white worms fallin to the bottom of these little cricket holder tanks. they came from my anacharis from outside. i never noticed this many until a day after i put em in there. what are they? would they harm my fish? i think if allowed to live they could infest in the eggs deposited by the white cloud female so is there anything i could do to kill em?
little white worms fallin off plants?!?!?!?!
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can you get a picture of them? there are tons of little worm like creatures that can inhabit aquatic habitats. If you can't get a photo, describe their shape, size, etc. KYle
you could treat the plants with a bleach dip. Do a search or ask on plant forum for exact concentration and time span of dip.
well i don't have a good digital camera that i can use at the moment, i gotta get permission, and also the worms are atleast 1 mm wide, and close to a centimeter long but a couple of mm's short of it. i posted the same thing in the plant forums....but no one answered as of yet. and i read about the bleach dip 1 part bleach 9 parts water somn like that.
do they have a traingular shaped head? look up planaria, sound maybe like that's what they are. Either way, they're probably not going to be a problem. Kyle
no they just were narrow and their tips were quite pointed, i put some freezing cold water with huge ice chunks in with the plants and the little suckers fell right off hehe, but in the end i had to return the plants back to my pond in fear of starting some unknown bug and/or parasite colony. i got the ice thingy from this petsmart guy who seemed very knowledgable about aquatics.
its all good
hey i wouldnt worry about these little worms because i had a few in a tropical tank with guppies and 3 bristlenose catfish. And my guppies just kept eating them and nothing ever happened to them.
Obviously i liked seeing them clean up the tank but these white worms we're looking very unnatractive so i just did a 25-35% water change every two days until they went away. :dance:
I have been told that they come when there is a build up of nutriesnts to eat (e.g fish poo!, uneaten food, dead plant matter)
So I knew that i needed a better filter or media for bacteria growth so they could suck up those nutrients!
This brings me to think that ur pond probably has exess nutrients that ur plants arent sucking up so do a water change on that and if u have a filter for it look into a better one or some better media.
Good luck with ur little white annoying worms !!! :joke:
hey i wouldnt worry about these little worms because i had a few in a tropical tank with guppies and 3 bristlenose catfish. And my guppies just kept eating them and nothing ever happened to them.
Obviously i liked seeing them clean up the tank but these white worms we're looking very unnatractive so i just did a 25-35% water change every two days until they went away. :dance: I have been told that they come when there is a build up of nutriesnts to eat (e.g fish poo!, uneaten food, dead plant matter)
So I knew that i needed a better filter or media for bacteria growth so they could suck up those nutrients!
This brings me to think that ur pond probably has exess nutrients that ur plants arent sucking up so do a water change on that and if u have a filter for it look into a better one or some better media.
Good luck with ur little white annoying worms !!! :joke:
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my pond has been taken over by algae that freely floats in the water, hair algae on the plants, and the sides are covered with it. also friggin leaves kept fallin in :mad2: durin the fall and i put a net on it but it was kinda late. then odd animals keep fallin in there, i found a lizard in the bottom of it, looked like a skink or somn it hadn't fully started to decay yet. and sometimes in the spring caterpillars fall off the oak tree right into there and my goldfish don't even touch em which i would think they would since the gfs are like 6-7 in. long and still growing. need to find a way to kill that dang algae without killin my fish like i did last time.....
how big of a pond is it, how many fish and do you feed them? If you're feeding the goldfish, don't. They will eat the algae except for when you're feeding them. "why work for food when some big monster keeps throwing it in the water?". KYle
i don't feed them anymore they eat w/e is in there. they got a good supply of nemeptodes in there too...and there's atleast 3-4 in there some of them are almost identical and i can't tell who's who (-_-) it's like 55 gallons or more i guess i cant' really remember as it's been a year or two since i first got it out there.