Frecklefly
Aquarium Advice Newbie
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Hi there. I wasn’t sure if this was the right place to post this or not. I have a 120gallon with barbs, bosemani rainbows and danios they are all quite healthy and have no issues. My parameters are pH 7, 0 ammonia, 0 nitrites and 20 nitrates. My tank is a medium planted tank and has a small gravel. I use botanicals for tannins (acorns and cattapa leaves that I boil before putting in the tank). I have a canister filter that I clean every few months when the flow decreases.
I was cleaning my canister a couple days ago and noticed some reddy brown worms in the filter. I have done a lot of googling and they look similar to camallanus. But they are only in my filter as far as I can tell. No fish have worms hanging from them and there are none in the main tank.
Is it possible for camallanus to live solely in my filter? I have tons of pest snails living in my filter maybe they are a host? Any other ideas of what they could be?
I was cleaning my canister a couple days ago and noticed some reddy brown worms in the filter. I have done a lot of googling and they look similar to camallanus. But they are only in my filter as far as I can tell. No fish have worms hanging from them and there are none in the main tank.
Is it possible for camallanus to live solely in my filter? I have tons of pest snails living in my filter maybe they are a host? Any other ideas of what they could be?