diffgirl Posted October 22, 2007 Report Share Posted October 22, 2007 Hi guys, Last night we had a bit of a job getting our new tank in and set up ready for the fish (we bought davidb's big tank with all his tetras, what a cool tank!!!) and we were having trouble getting the water clarity right after everything having been moved so we decided to put the tetras into our 2' tank we also got off david a week ago that has been a 1/2 way house for those waiting on the big tank for their final home. Here lies my little problem or should we say lots of little problems. Because we were putting a few more fish in there we thought it best to check the filter to make sure all was ok (its a fluval in tank canister fluval 2 i think) and low and behold there were these horrid little red buggers in there and boy did I flip. So I jumped on the net and googled the hell out of it with few to no results conclusively as to what they were or weather they are good bad or otherwise. So after getting over being freaked out we needed to head over to jansens this morn to grab a few bits and I thought to ask one of the staff there. He told me they were possibly a hook worm that could harm our fish and that I should use snail rid which I grabbed and that I should raise the hardness of the water by using oyster shell chips which I grabbed also, but I am not too sure which test I use to check the "hardness" of the water as I know we have a master test kit but by no means am I a chemist, if I am given instructions I will follow them and be fine but the bottle of the snail rid is vague and the guy at jensens said the Kh level not Ph I think. So who knows what the right test is that I use to get the reading I need, also what the number should be when it is good to put the snail rid in and a bonus would be who can ID the nasty little buggers that were in the filter? See the pics bellow for the culprit: Any info from anyone will be most appreciated, I have all my guys ready to go into their new home but I dont want to move the problem to the other tank, plus I have my new guys that are planning on staying in the 2' tank once everything is sorted so I dont want to get this wrong, there are some special little guys and girls depending on me for this one. Thanks every one, I just hope it is not too major! :-? :-? :-? :-? :-? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cichlid7 Posted October 22, 2007 Report Share Posted October 22, 2007 Do you feed your fish Frozen Bloodworms?? As that looks like bloodworms some get sucked up in the filter before the fish are able to eat them. and just keep growing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jayci Posted October 22, 2007 Report Share Posted October 22, 2007 looks like bloodworms to me too. I know bloodworms swim in a S shape pattern, are this worms doing that? If bloodworms, I don't see any problems with them. Your fish will like to eat them. Use the chemicals as a last resort. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
diffgirl Posted October 22, 2007 Author Report Share Posted October 22, 2007 looks like bloodworms to me too. I know bloodworms swim in a S shape pattern, are this worms doing that? If bloodworms, I don't see any problems with them. Your fish will like to eat them. Use the chemicals as a last resort. well this is the thing, I got the tank off davidb last weekend and it had the gravel with no water (or very little) and I gave it a quick splash out and then filled and cycled it, so no I dont feed blood worms, but maybe davidb did. On the chemical deal, aside from the obvious hastle I too like to avoid doing anything that could potentialy do any harm to the little guys, but I am a bit scared that the yickey little wormies will harm the fish, its a big ole catch 22, but if every one is together on them being harmless I will gladly leave them there, hey free food is good food in my book, I have just never seen anything like it before. As you may be able to guess I dont handle wormy things very well, especially with the chance they may be paracitic! So what is the word, do they stay or do they go? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
diffgirl Posted October 22, 2007 Author Report Share Posted October 22, 2007 Oh the other thing is I have not seen them swim, my hubby just opened up the filter and there they all were, in my sink eeewwwwwww. But in the sink they were squirming but I dont know if that constitutes swimming LOL. They just creep me out so much :-? :-? :-? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adrienne Posted October 22, 2007 Report Share Posted October 22, 2007 I thought hook worms had a distinct hook at the end like a barb, they don't look like them IMO Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SpidersWeb Posted October 22, 2007 Report Share Posted October 22, 2007 Looks like bloodworms to me. Harmless larvae, fish love them, especially live ones yummy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alanmin4304 Posted October 22, 2007 Report Share Posted October 22, 2007 Bloodworms are midge larvae and have either been fed live or developed in the filter from eggs being laid or in feeding live food. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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