Could this be planaria?

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Masha

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I've got some tiny white creatures on my aquarium glass. White, oval, about 1mm or even smaller. They feel hard to the touch but I can scratch them off. They move around!

I read that planaria are a sign of over-feeding. I've been very careful about feeding, and have been vacuming gravel with every wc - but I recently added new plants. (Yesterday!)

The plants came from a tank with no fish.

Could these have come with the plants? Or are the definitely a sign that I'm over-feeding?

Should I be worried? :ermm:
 
If it is planaria, from what I've heard it won't actually harm your fish, but I could be wrong.
 
If it is planaria, from what I've heard it won't actually harm your fish, but I could be wrong.

Well, that's reassuring. One of my black widow tetras ate one I scratched off of the glass. Kept spitting it out, but in the end I think it went down the hatch.
 
Well, that's reassuring. One of my black widow tetras ate one I scratched off of the glass. Kept spitting it out, but in the end I think it went down the hatch.

I know have small white worm things in the gravel of my aquarium, which seemed to have showed up after i bought a plant from Petco :banghead:. From what ive found, they are harmless, which is good cause if have seen a tetras eat them multiple times when they get stirred up. So far no fish deaths :):fish2:. I also hope to completely rescape the tank soon anyway, so by by worms :D
 
The more I look at them, the more I think they are baby snails. They have hard little shells, but flat, as far as I can tell.
 
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