Is this planaria?

[jennandjuicetm]

I've seen a couple within the past couple months then today I saw two within five minutes, though, I had to stir up the gravel to find the second. They are hair sized, clearish white. They seem to be swimming and they wiggle back and forth like an "s." I think my frog is eating them... I haven't fead her in two days... Lol

 

[BBradbury]

Planaria

I've seen a couple within the past couple months then today I saw two within five minutes, though, I had to stir up the gravel to find the second. They are hair sized, clearish white. They seem to be swimming and they wiggle back and forth like an "s." I think my frog is eating them... I haven't fead her in two days... Lol

Hello jenn...

Could be planaria. Planaria isn't going to harm your fish. The worms grow in tanks that don't get enough water changes. That's the real issue. The water isn't clean enough. Planaria eat the leftover food that falls to the bottom of the tank. If you're a good water changer and gravel vacuumer and don't feed too much, the fish will remove them.

Do a better job of keeping the tank water clean. 99.9 percent of the problems with any tank are water related. If you keep the water pure, you'll have few, if any tank issues.

B

 

[Gillie]

It looks more like some kind of detritus worm, they won't harm anything, they feed on the junk that settles into the substrate. As posted above, larger or more frequent water changes will help if their numbers get out of control, they typically stay in the substrate unless there is an abundance of food or get kicked up during maintenance.

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[jennandjuicetm]

I have been doing regular water changes, normally 20% twice a week. My tank has recently cycled and in the beginning I did too many WC and kept the ammonia at 0 so was having troubles cycling of course. I havent been as good about vacuuming the gravel due to time contraints in other areas of my life. Could that, coupled with two super messy frogs (ADFs) be what has brought them on?

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[jennandjuicetm]

I have a weird question. When I syphon the gravel can I put some of them in my brother's tank? He has a very small ADF who I feed f/t brine shrimp to every day bit he only eats a couple then won't eat any more. Im pondering if addinf a constant food source wpuld help him get bigger faster. We got another ADF the same time who has now doubled in size whereas the little guy seems the same to me.

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