Help!!!! What is this?

[corylover]

that's what he has right?

that's planaria right?
more planaria do you see the images matching cause I just see a thin hair like structure versus a shovel headed rounder structure maybe we need a better pic to positively identify it.

 

[bribo12]

That's not the ops pic. While I agree a better pic would help it will be impossible unless the op has a very good macro lens. Another user posted the pic you posted an claimed theyre harmless. Sooo they're harmless. In the pic the op posted I do believe I can make out the triangular head of planaria.

 

[corylover]

if im wrong then im wrong but this is a pic of the worm I was talking about:

although they do get fatter too this is basically it.

 

[bribo12]

Fair enough I just don't see that in the ops pic. I sincerely wasnt trying to say you were wrong as you could of had a predatory organism. I just see planaria in the ops pic. Sorry for the argument lol

 

[corylover]

im sorry to I hope its not this because after having 5 batches killed and having done everything for 6 months to get rid of them im just a bit paranoid about worms in my tank but can you blame me?

 

[bribo12]

Hey we all get passionate about fish ya know . And no I don't, coming from sw where there are tons of nasty hitchhikers I completely understand

 

[corylover]

yea worst off is on the last batch I got to see them eating the babies and the eggs it was disturbing at the least. well I got work later

 

[Brookster123]

That was intense..

 

[bribo12]

That was intense..

Haha yeah it was...

 

[Brookster123]

I like little bits and bots in my tanks.. More fulfilling in thinking of myself as master of mini aquatic ecosystems

 

[bgmann12]

Wow so I went to my LFS to get fish for my other tank and got the water tested for this one too.
The water is really off but I got stuff to level the water out. They said it is daphnia after I showed them a video of mine moving in the gravel.

PH:6.4
Ammonia:0.15
Nitrite:1ppm
Nitrate:35

 

[Brookster123]

Wow so I went to my LFS to get fish for my other tank and got the water tested for this one too. The water is really off but I got stuff to level the water out. They said it is daphnia after I showed them a video of mine moving in the gravel. PH:6.4 Ammonia:0.15 Nitrite:1ppm Nitrate:35

daphnia????? Noooooooo what are the test results?

 

[Fresh2o]

Wow so I went to my LFS to get fish for my other tank and got the water tested for this one too.
The water is really off but I got stuff to level the water out. They said it is daphnia after I showed them a video of mine moving in the gravel.

PH:6.4
Ammonia:0.15
Nitrite:1ppm
Nitrate:35

What did you get that will correct you water parameters?
Not daphnia. Daphnia are round bodied free swimming crustaceans. What you've got is a worm of some sort (flatworm? Planaria?). I've got those and larger planaria in my shrimp tank yet batches of new shrimp appears every few weeks.

 

[bgmann12]

But they move forward and backwards in the gravel though I thought worms only went forward and turned

 

[bgmann12]

this is another up close pick bad but might help

 

[corylover]

its defiantly not a crustaceans it is a worm:

that pic doesn't match yours

 

[corylover]

 

[bgmann12]

The latest one of my picture seems to have a triangle head