What is this? Planeria?

[The Zigman]

Found this in my shrimp tank. Is it planeria? How do i get rid of them?


video is not uploading... Grrrr....

 

[The Zigman]

try again...
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heck with it, here's a link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZB2bTJOjqk

 

[The Zigman]

finally found some pix...
Not planaria.

Any Ideas?

 

[Lucky]

Someone posted something in the invert forum that looks just like that, I think - also in a shrimp tank.

http://www.aquariacentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=120587&page=2 -- look at post #12

 

[Arakkis]

get an airline tube and suck them out as you see them, it looks like a really big nematode

 

[martialtheory]

looks like a leech

 

[The Zigman]

looks like a leech

Arent Leeches usually brownish red?
these things are white...ish..
someone elses video of the same thing...

 

[The Zigman]

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[jac8724]

It looks like a huge nematode, but i really dont think nematodes get anywhere that big. has that same wrething in intervals motion to swim. hmmm

 

[Notophthalmus]

It's a midge larva; totally harmless. Give it a few weeks and it will metamorphose into a long-legged feathery-antennaed little fly. It is probably in the family Chironomidae, and so a close cousin of 'bloodworms'.