Here's a look at some common Detritus worms in my Angelfish tank. They are often mistakenly identified as "Planeria" but they are not. www.fish-as-pet...
Thanks for providing this info and info on your site. I was freaking out when I saw all these worms in my tank today. Now I can rest at ease and take the proper steps to reduce their numbers safely.
These look just about exactly like what I'm seeing on my tank walls- I'm cycling it right now and made the mistake of using fish food instead of ammonia thinking it'd be more natural- I looked in there and saw these and just about panicked because I'm trying to get the tank ready for shrimp and was terrified they were planaria. Let me tell you- never again. Next time I'm dosing ammonia and having done with it. That said, now my blood pressure can go back down. :D Thanks for sharing this vid!
@@odakotarose I am now fully cycled yay! I did a 30% water change and dont see a million anymore. Still see some but I'll keep doing some water changes as long as it doesnt send the cycle out of whack. So gross though. Gives me chills touching the water lol! Thank you!
I am still cycling (after a miscommunication with the landlord) and I saw one of these. It was free swimming up to the return for the hob filter (not into the filter, but right up to where it returns to the tank), riding the flow through the tank, then swimming right back for another round. Once would be coicidence. but this worm repeated this behavior several times. 🙃🙃
You're not kidding when they indicate there is a lot of detritus in your tank. I started noticing these little worms in my tank and thought nah my tank is clean, did a water change and was floored by how much crap I sucked up.
Thanks for the information on white worms. You put my mind at ease. How to rid them from my tank?? How to know the difference between white worms or planaria? I subscribed to your channel tonight. 👍
I got like this in my bb discus tank, clean and change 30% water every day. But they are still some in the tank, only see some when I am changing water. When water level going down, see some on the glass above water level. Just dewormed tank for five days with fluke solve, obviously don't kill those. But my fish are happy, don't think they are harmful. Change much water every day, but still see a few on glass when water level going down :-) Think they live in water, obviously not harmful.
i just found these at the top of my aquarium and on the glass they are tinny and im pritty sure they are detritus ... theirs alot of miss info on this on youtube and people saying that detritus only swims and wiggles and dosent go on the glass and all sorts of stuff.. people spreading wrong info... im still a little scared but i did look thru a gem loop and i dont see an arow head... they are so so small
Well done,I have these very tiny white worms in my shrimp aquarium,I knew they wasn't planaria but I thought they may be nematode worms that may attack my nerite snail,I think nematode worms are virtually invisible to the human eye though.👍
I have these extremely tiny thin white worms in my fish tank it’s almost hard to see them and they twitch a lot, anyways I don’t know what kind they are but every time I turn my light on the immediately swim to it
I have these too and I still haven't found any answer what the hell are these things. Their biggest trait is that they're very attracted to the light source, huddled and crawling on the glass at the top part of the tank, and their maximum size is only around below 0.3-0.5mm, almost dust like. Didn't even realize I have these in my tank until their population boomed when I had power outage for two days and my filter + chiller died. I guess they really thrive in warmer waters. I have no idea how to get rid of these things. They can even survive medications like methylene blue, malachite green and praziquantel.
@@expressfunartakaw1ndy._.cl887 I have some tiny thin worms as well - I've only seen one at a time, but it doesn't crawl on the glass, it just wiggles through the water. Trying to figure out what they are!
i love your tank and i used to decorate similarly, but as you said too many places detritus to gather, hense why i changed my tanks. less places for hangups
I have worms in my tank that are only on the glass but they are so small you have to get up close to the glass to still barley see them. I can't figure out what they are.
This happened to me! I have tiny white wiggly worms on the glass and some in the water of my 2.5-gallon betta tank. They weren't there before I got my betta but once I put him in the tank they suddenly appeared.
Um I’m stress googling and YouTubing rn bc I found some white worms but the longer and way thinner and they just crawl around on the glass kinda looks like hair ? Is it bad I just redid this tank and I did as per usual I’m freaking out hahah 😅 (I’m going to do it again too paranoid)
The ones that I have look like they have fins on the rear end not sure if it's the same thing you're talking about and they move around and jerk around and they're in my snail tank which I set up as an emergency water supply for my normal tank then when I bought some plants it had snowed, so I remove the snail eggs enter the plant and the snail eggs into the current I've got these in not sure what they are
I looked these up, I have these in my tank but veryyy small. I thought they were Rhabdocoela worms. They glide on the glass and move kind of quick. Also read that the Rhabdocoela are harmless. I thought detritus worms swam kind of freely though in the tank like little squiggles in the water so I'm not sure. I know they're not planaria because i don't see arrow shaped head. I'm doing a fishless cycle also waiting for my nitrate levels to go up. I was thinking of just adding some fish soon so they can munch on them.
my new tank as only been running only about two weeks and as no fish in it yet so not sure how the got there maybe it was on my substrate when I got it I will do a water change and try and suck some up with my gravel vac
Thank you so much for the info. I just started seeing these a couple of days ago in one of my snail & shrimp tanks. I’ve been killing them as I see them but it sounds like I should let them be? I know my tank has a lot that needs cleaning in the bottom but I have a lot of baby shrimp and I’m afraid I’ll vacuum them up so I’ve let it go. Any suggestions on cleaning with baby shrimp?
I have this problem but, I have the little guys that are in the background of your video the tiny tiny white dots that are just dashing around the tank. Is that the same thing ?
I had these but they are incredibly tiny. Like you can hardly see them but I can and there’s a lot. But my tank is almost impeccably clean and I only just finished cycling it this past week. I do a water change every week but I was doing two a week during cycling. I don’t understand why I have these and they disgust me so much. I almost want to start my tank all over
Dan Hiteshew thank you. That makes me feel so much better. The only reason I even saw them is because I decided to look at my substrate with my phone on full magnification and I saw little wiggly things. Now I see them all the time even though they are microscopic, I’m the only one that can see them in my home. I just hope they go away because they gross me out so bad
Mine aren’t like these there longer and skinner and there see through and they have black specs on their end and front someone please help and tell me what they are and what they do please I’m freaking out! D:
@@DanHiteshew-oneandonly I did some research on it and some people told that they were seed shrimps some say they are not harmful some say they kill shrimps not sure which is true
Hi Dan. My tank has cycled and i'm due to get some fish on Wednesday and i have noticed this worms exactly like yours. I have no fish in tank so no food has gone in. I only have tiny ramshorn snails that must of come in on plants because i didn't see them for a couple of weeks. I have cherry shrimps arriving on wednesday. Worried about these worms.
You can gravel vac and drain the tank. your cycle won't be disturbed by that. You may not get all the worms that way, but you've got the option of very thorough cleaning while there's no fish.
Thanks for reply. Did my first water change(90%) today since starting up as i'm told not to do it until tank has cycled. I sucked up little bits off the gravel but not much. Didn't want to disturb any biofilm or good bacteria. Removed floating leaves and dying stems etc. All my water parameters look spot on. Filter sponge was given a good rinse in tank water. Everything looking very good now. I'm excited now. Oh and i just subscribed. Thanks again
Consider them part of your clean-up crew. If you have excessive amounts (I.E. swirling around the tank when the lights come on) then just cut back on feeding a bit, and do a bit more vaccing and maintenance, and their population will drop.
I don't think it'll make a difference, unless you gravel vacced more than you do with the sand. They aren't harmful if they're just the detritus worms.
I have something like them but their way tinier and they are really fast I have my betta in a tank but his mouth is coming off I don't know what to do I would move him to my bigger tank but i have another betta in there
@@Ky0927 Yes, those worms are harmless. You can think of them as clean-up crew. Keep in mind that a lot of those worms indicates you're not keeping your tank clean enough, so stay on top of maintenance.
Hi I have some in my tank its going through a fishless cycle but my worms are free swimming and not on the glass I have never had these before when I set up my other tanks I have four set up and with new one its five should I just leave the worms or get some stuff to kill them off cheers happy fish keeping
That's up to you. They won't hurt anything. In fact, you can look at them like a clean up crew. The real issue is why do you have them? It's usually due to too much detritus in the tank, so less feeding and more frequent gravel vaccing will help too. Some fish even eat them. I'd leave it alone until the cycle finishes at least. Deal with from there.
I have those basic snails that are on plants from petstores they have what looktlike those things on them I'm trying to find out if theyre bad only a few have them i noticed they don't go on the glass like yours tho
Hi i have a oscar fish i dont have any gravel any plants just a filter ang an oxygen but it appears that there are small Worms in my acquarium very small Worms attached to my acquarium glass also in the ground glass but my fish look very healthy can you help me? Do i need to worry?
+madcypress L.L. I probably could have gone into some detail about telling the difference, but I figured people could Google it. Maybe I'll do a companion video.
So they are good? Ok i got scared because i thought they would kill my fish or smthn and they came up because i had to change filters so it got a little dirty so phew
There's so many different "white worms" that turn up it's hard to say. However, most of them are harmless so just keep an eye on things and step up the cleaning a bit.
@@DanHiteshew-oneandonly thanks. Yeah I have to I just need to find a way to use the gravel vac without sucking up baby shrimp. I over fed the other day and after that is when I noticed these guys. I'm hoping they're nothing bad. I haven't added anything new to the tank so that's why I'm worried.
they dont stick to glass in my tank, they just wriggling around tank. did i misidentified them? they are like small white thread wriggling and appear everytime i finished my water change.
Hi Dan, Thanks for the video. There is SO much misinformation on detritus worms and planaria, my head is swimming. I have some kind of worm...in water, on the glass. They look like yours but they are SUPER tiny! You can't see them without getting right up on the tank and using a camera helps. Does that still sound like detritus? I just finished cycling so don't have much stuff for them to eat. I think they came in on a plant...but not sure. Ammonia and nitrites are zero and about 5ppm nitrates(which is low) and that's because Im doing water changes more often due to these creatures. It's a heavily planted tank with root tabs...maybe that's the food? Thanks in advance for any thoughts. MM
I’m sure you probably figured it out by now but if they’re tiny, more fat chode looking and on the glass they’re definitely planaria, if they are long and thin and “swim” through the water using their bodies then they are detritus
@@Nsobloo I sure did.... pretty sure they are Rhabdocoela worms. Totally harmless but I am NOT a fan! Thank you however for trying to help. Planaria have that pointy head and these don't and they are not all squiggly like detritus. Have them in both my betta tanks, the other two tanks are full of tetras which gobble them up!
@@margomase9831 I have these in my Betta tank too. Super teeny tiny white blobs. So just so i definitely know... they are perfectly fine, right? I shouldn't freak out?? I have only seen them today, but one of my plants have a weird white webbing on it... I'm guessing that's the cuprit. Should I remove the offending plant?
They shouldn't. Most likely it's just detritus worms, which are harmless. If it is planaria, then the fry shouldn't be affected by them. Eggs would be at risk though.
I have had my marine tanks go unmaintained extensive amount of times from time to time and I haven't seen those in a marine tank before. Worst thing I get is the red carpet stuff which sucks and really hard to get rid of.
Thank you. I'm doing a fishless cycle day 22 and I about lost it. Whew! I was told not to change my water yet or I'll stall my cycle. So do I just leave it? Will fish eat them? I seen I was getting a little algae it looked a tad hazy on the glass. There on the glass but I cant see if they are in the sand. Eww
@@DanHiteshew-oneandonly it was suggested I up the food because my ammonia wasnt high enough to do a decent cycle. Never doing fish food again. I've never had this in any other tanks before. I searched my tank I took plants from and I didnt find a single one. I'm sure the water is nasty it's been in there for over 3 weeks. Feels so strange waiting this long but the nitrates need to get there. I have to order everything online as I have 0 local fish anything. Id like to be able to get 6ish fish at once (1 inch juveniles )because shipping is $35 to $50. Still trying to research if that's a terrible idea. Everyone says add a few at a time but dang shipping alone is triple if not more than the fish.
@@brooke3140 Six small fish at once won't be a big deal. (or shouldn't be) I have no idea where those worms come from. They seem to spontaneously generate. Lol
@@DanHiteshew-oneandonlythank you! Shipping is a killer. They're only going to be around 1 inch each so it should work. My tank is now cycled yay! So now I can try to get alot of these guys out. When I'm changing say 20 30% of the water should I rinse the filters in the old tank water? Or will that catch even more worms. I havent checked the filter for worms yet but I'm better there is. I have 2 of the marineland 350 bio wheels and those things push and pull water
oh my god my hero. I'm cycling a new tank and im trying the fish food method... Scared the hell out of me when I turned on the light and saw these monsters
I just noticed these worms today, there's a bunch on my glass. Not sure how their population exploded. I do water changes every 3 days , my filters are clean with hardly any mulm, no excess waste on bottom and I've been feeding my fish very lightly within the last week. I guess they must have came from some live plants I recently put in my tank. Any suggestions?
No idea what to tell you. They aren't harmful (you can even think of them as part of your clean-up crew). they'll either go away on their own if you keep a very clean tank like that. I've never taken any action about Detritus worms. (planaria are another story)
well... i put some guppy, they seem like eat it but actually they not..they just vomit it out.. then kept on repeating until all the worms die on the bottom..then i use tube suck it all out. heheh
Omg I love your tank I have an angel fish all alone he killed every fish ive had when I got him 4 years ago I got him with another he killed him, right now his fat just alone in a 55 gallon tank I feel bad any times or is it too late to get him some friends
I just fed the tank less and did more water changes. I don't know if they are gone, but I never see them anymore, so I'm not worried about it. (the detritus worms are harmless)
The one that appear in my tank is yellow in color and attach in the glass and I notice my fish neon are getting aggressive. I had two neon only. My beta just died. Can you tell me what are these. ? Thank you
not to my knowledge. I'm not sure how they get back into the substrate. About ten minutes after I turn the lights on, there's none to be seen. They just vanish. I need to add a link or do a companion video.
Dan Hiteshew I think the ones in my tank were planeria. I put like Paraguard in and they just come pouring out of my filter and the fish start eating them.
Detritus worms are segmented worms (like earthworms) and Planaria are flat worms. If you can see one crawling on the glass, look to see if it moves like a snails (stuck to the glass and undulating) or if it moves more like an earthworm.
Detritus worms are harmless, but planaria can be a problem. Make sure hey are white, tube shaped worms, and you're ok. If they are flat worms, then it is planaria and you should look into getting them out.
Thanks for providing this info and info on your site. I was freaking out when I saw all these worms in my tank today. Now I can rest at ease and take the proper steps to reduce their numbers safely.
Why am i here i dont have any fish
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These look just about exactly like what I'm seeing on my tank walls- I'm cycling it right now and made the mistake of using fish food instead of ammonia thinking it'd be more natural- I looked in there and saw these and just about panicked because I'm trying to get the tank ready for shrimp and was terrified they were planaria. Let me tell you- never again. Next time I'm dosing ammonia and having done with it. That said, now my blood pressure can go back down. :D Thanks for sharing this vid!
This is me right now. Day 22. What do I do?
@@brooke3140 I think just keep checking parameters and doing water changes if/as needed as it cycles. They went away after a couple more weeks.
@@odakotarose I am now fully cycled yay! I did a 30% water change and dont see a million anymore. Still see some but I'll keep doing some water changes as long as it doesnt send the cycle out of whack. So gross though. Gives me chills touching the water lol! Thank you!
@@brooke3140 No worries! Good luck! And yeah, they super grossed me out too lol
I guess I'm kinda off topic but does anybody know of a good site to watch new tv shows online?
Thank goodness! I was super worried the little worms might kill my shrimp. The crazy thing is all my water parameters are good.
WE GOT THE WORMS ON THE SAME DAY! We go through this together 😂
I am still cycling (after a miscommunication with the landlord) and I saw one of these. It was free swimming up to the return for the hob filter (not into the filter, but right up to where it returns to the tank), riding the flow through the tank, then swimming right back for another round. Once would be coicidence. but this worm repeated this behavior several times. 🙃🙃
They are Beautiful in their own way. And they help! :)
thank you. They showed up last week in my tank and I got scared by them. Thank you, very informal video
Glad it helped!
You're not kidding when they indicate there is a lot of detritus in your tank. I started noticing these little worms in my tank and thought nah my tank is clean, did a water change and was floored by how much crap I sucked up.
Mine are tiny thread like and wiggle In my tank, what could that be?
that's detritus worms
Whew! Thanks! I was so frigging bummed to see these this morning in my shrimp tank. I thought I was infected with planaria.
I spotted them today on tank glass. Got worried so i cleaned my glass with scrubber.
Thanks for the info. They are safe.
No those will eventually grow up and become flies and they will harm you.
king Lift Increase temperature, they will die
MONU i did the same today when i saw them. I freaked out for a sec.
Thanks for the information on white worms. You put my mind at ease. How to rid them from my tank?? How to know the difference between white worms or planaria? I subscribed to your channel tonight. 👍
I got like this in my bb discus tank, clean and change 30% water every day.
But they are still some in the tank, only see some when I am changing water.
When water level going down, see some on the glass above water level.
Just dewormed tank for five days with fluke solve, obviously don't kill those.
But my fish are happy, don't think they are harmful.
Change much water every day, but still see a few on glass when water level going down :-)
Think they live in water, obviously not harmful.
Got these on the green parts on the glass of my tank. They are there also when the lights in my tank are lighted, no difference between dark or light.
The worms in my tank look like the one in your video, but it’s really hard to see if they have an arrow head like planeria.
Same here. I do hope this is what they are lol
@@koopiren7867 me too mine look weird as heck I’m like what the heck is that.
If your hand comes into contact with the water, are they harmful to humans? I don't want those little bastards anywhere near me or my clothes
Lol no.
Thank you for making this video. I really appreciate it. I could not find anything on this. SOmeone else mentioned blood pressure going down ditto...
Wow thank u so much for a chill informed video I was so upset after seeing worms in my dam tank but now I'm not so upset thanx
i just found these at the top of my aquarium and on the glass they are tinny and im pritty sure they are detritus ... theirs alot of miss info on this on youtube and people saying that detritus only swims and wiggles and dosent go on the glass and all sorts of stuff.. people spreading wrong info... im still a little scared but i did look thru a gem loop and i dont see an arow head... they are so so small
I have the same. Just noticed a bunch on the water surface and the glass inside the tank. Freaked me out
Thanks man! You eased my mind.
Thank you. At least I found a video explaining what I had.
Well done,I have these very tiny white worms in my shrimp aquarium,I knew they wasn't planaria but I thought they may be nematode worms that may attack my nerite snail,I think nematode worms are virtually invisible to the human eye though.👍
I have these extremely tiny thin white worms in my fish tank it’s almost hard to see them and they twitch a lot, anyways I don’t know what kind they are but every time I turn my light on the immediately swim to it
I have no idea what they might be. I always see worm hide from the light.
I have these too and I still haven't found any answer what the hell are these things.
Their biggest trait is that they're very attracted to the light source, huddled and crawling on the glass at the top part of the tank, and their maximum size is only around below 0.3-0.5mm, almost dust like.
Didn't even realize I have these in my tank until their population boomed when I had power outage for two days and my filter + chiller died. I guess they really thrive in warmer waters. I have no idea how to get rid of these things. They can even survive medications like methylene blue, malachite green and praziquantel.
This is happening in my tank too, I thought they were parasites.
@@expressfunartakaw1ndy._.cl887 I have some tiny thin worms as well - I've only seen one at a time, but it doesn't crawl on the glass, it just wiggles through the water. Trying to figure out what they are!
i love your tank and i used to decorate similarly, but as you said too many places detritus to gather, hense why i changed my tanks. less places for hangups
lol. yeah, I'm going to be making changes soon. this is an early, enthusiastic tank. lol
I have worms in my tank that are only on the glass but they are so small you have to get up close to the glass to still barley see them. I can't figure out what they are.
Might be planaria.
@@DanHiteshew-oneandonly there so small they are pretty much microscopic
@@DanHiteshew-oneandonly they are the same size as water fleas
@@anthonyfarris700 Not sure then. Doesn't sound like planaria. I wouldn't worry about it.
Those are rhabadocoela not detritus worms...
So are they harmful? I have a painted a turtle
no they just clean up
100%
I have these in my 3gal betta tank. They appeared out of nowhere....
This happened to me! I have tiny white wiggly worms on the glass and some in the water of my 2.5-gallon betta tank. They weren't there before I got my betta but once I put him in the tank they suddenly appeared.
Those are Rhabdocoela. Not detritus worms.
I have lots of these but I cant vac as my tank has not yet cycled, what should I do
Let the tank cycle for now. Worry about it later. (find out if it's detritus worm, which are good, or if they are planaria, which are bad)
I scrape them off the glass when they get to be too many and my guppies go nuts for them
Huh. I just wiped them off my glass since I saw them trying to crawl out the tank. Whoops.
dandrea bush bro same
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!! You sir!!! ARE A LIFE SAVER. I freaked out when i turned on my aquarium this morning!!! xD
Um I’m stress googling and YouTubing rn bc I found some white worms but the longer and way thinner and they just crawl around on the glass kinda looks like hair ? Is it bad I just redid this tank and I did as per usual I’m freaking out hahah 😅 (I’m going to do it again too paranoid)
Sounds like detritus worms. I wouldn't worry about it.
The ones that I have look like they have fins on the rear end not sure if it's the same thing you're talking about and they move around and jerk around and they're in my snail tank which I set up as an emergency water supply for my normal tank then when I bought some plants it had snowed, so I remove the snail eggs enter the plant and the snail eggs into the current I've got these in not sure what they are
I'm not sure either. Planaria are flat, so maybe they look like they have fins?
just get a planaria trap.all will be wiped out or get pearl gouramis.. they feed on planaria
Thank you so so much! I was so scared when I looked at my turtles this morning.
I looked these up, I have these in my tank but veryyy small. I thought they were Rhabdocoela worms. They glide on the glass and move kind of quick. Also read that the Rhabdocoela are harmless. I thought detritus worms swam kind of freely though in the tank like little squiggles in the water so I'm not sure. I know they're not planaria because i don't see arrow shaped head. I'm doing a fishless cycle also waiting for my nitrate levels to go up. I was thinking of just adding some fish soon so they can munch on them.
I'd leave them alone for now. Let the tank cycle and settle in a bit.
You are right @nicolen3565. What is pictured in this video is Rhabdocoela. Detritus worms have very “squiggly” and fast movements.
my new tank as only been running only about two weeks and as no fish in it yet so not sure how the got there maybe it was on my substrate when I got it I will do a water change and try and suck some up with my gravel vac
I usually leave my guppies to eat them
I have a tank with guppies and their fry in the same tank. There are a lot of these worms crawling on the glass. My guppies won't touch them.
Thank you so much for the info. I just started seeing these a couple of days ago in one of my snail & shrimp tanks. I’ve been killing them as I see them but it sounds like I should let them be? I know my tank has a lot that needs cleaning in the bottom but I have a lot of baby shrimp and I’m afraid I’ll vacuum them up so I’ve let it go. Any suggestions on cleaning with baby shrimp?
Not sure what to tell you about that. The detritus worms are harmless though.
I have this problem but, I have the little guys that are in the background of your video the tiny tiny white dots that are just dashing around the tank. Is that the same thing ?
No, that sounds like something else. Not sure what to tell you.
@@horkrust6224 it’s not on the fish they’re just hopping around the tank
@@horkrust6224 I only have baby snails in the tank that the little dots are in if it’s what you said are they harmful to the tank ?
I had these but they are incredibly tiny. Like you can hardly see them but I can and there’s a lot. But my tank is almost impeccably clean and I only just finished cycling it this past week. I do a water change every week but I was doing two a week during cycling. I don’t understand why I have these and they disgust me so much. I almost want to start my tank all over
I think most people have these and don't even know it. Don't worry about it. They'll go away eventually. Just keep letting it cycle. Be patient.
Dan Hiteshew thank you. That makes me feel so much better. The only reason I even saw them is because I decided to look at my substrate with my phone on full magnification and I saw little wiggly things. Now I see them all the time even though they are microscopic, I’m the only one that can see them in my home. I just hope they go away because they gross me out so bad
Mine aren’t like these there longer and skinner and there see through and they have black specs on their end and front someone please help and tell me what they are and what they do please I’m freaking out! D:
I wish I could help, but that isn't something I'm familiar with.
What type of fish would eat those?
What are the small white ones that jump really fast
I don't know.
@@DanHiteshew-oneandonly I did some research on it and some people told that they were seed shrimps some say they are not harmful some say they kill shrimps not sure which is true
@@vasanthkumark3556 Never heard of them myself.
Thank you!
Hi Dan. My tank has cycled and i'm due to get some fish on Wednesday and i have noticed this worms exactly like yours. I have no fish in tank so no food has gone in. I only have tiny ramshorn snails that must of come in on plants because i didn't see them for a couple of weeks. I have cherry shrimps arriving on wednesday. Worried about these worms.
You can gravel vac and drain the tank. your cycle won't be disturbed by that. You may not get all the worms that way, but you've got the option of very thorough cleaning while there's no fish.
Thanks for reply. Did my first water change(90%) today since starting up as i'm told not to do it until tank has cycled. I sucked up little bits off the gravel but not much. Didn't want to disturb any biofilm or good bacteria. Removed floating leaves and dying stems etc. All my water parameters look spot on. Filter sponge was given a good rinse in tank water. Everything looking very good now. I'm excited now. Oh and i just subscribed. Thanks again
I have these in my 20 long creeped me out .
Man I was shitting the bed
Consider them part of your clean-up crew. If you have excessive amounts (I.E. swirling around the tank when the lights come on) then just cut back on feeding a bit, and do a bit more vaccing and maintenance, and their population will drop.
What are the tiny white things jolting about behind the worms
I never had these until i used black blasting sand in my tank, should I go back to having gravel?
I don't think it'll make a difference, unless you gravel vacced more than you do with the sand. They aren't harmful if they're just the detritus worms.
I have something like them but their way tinier and they are really fast I have my betta in a tank but his mouth is coming off I don't know what to do I would move him to my bigger tank but i have another betta in there
I'm not sure what to tell you. I'm sorry to hear it though. I hope you can sort it out.
@@DanHiteshew-oneandonly thank you tho
That black striped angel is gorgeous!!!! What type is he/she? Do you breed them or remember where you got him/her? Absolutely stunning! Nice set up.
It was a black lace.
Why does fish not eat them?
How did they get in my tank? I notice they appeared after my snail died
I have no idea how they get into tanks, but they get in all of them somehow.
@@DanHiteshew-oneandonly ima buy a new snail today. Do u think the snail will be ok?
@@Ky0927 Yes, those worms are harmless. You can think of them as clean-up crew.
Keep in mind that a lot of those worms indicates you're not keeping your tank clean enough, so stay on top of maintenance.
@@DanHiteshew-oneandonly ahhh thank you soo much!! Any recommendation on a good snail?
@@Ky0927 Nerite snails are probably my favorite.
Hi I have some in my tank its going through a fishless cycle but my worms are free swimming and not on the glass I have never had these before when I set up my other tanks I have four set up and with new one its five should I just leave the worms or get some stuff to kill them off cheers happy fish keeping
That's up to you. They won't hurt anything. In fact, you can look at them like a clean up crew.
The real issue is why do you have them? It's usually due to too much detritus in the tank, so less feeding and more frequent gravel vaccing will help too. Some fish even eat them.
I'd leave it alone until the cycle finishes at least. Deal with from there.
I have those basic snails that are on plants from petstores they have what looktlike those things on them I'm trying to find out if theyre bad only a few have them i noticed they don't go on the glass like yours tho
How we can get rid of them ?
Feed less and vacuum more. They'll go away in time.
Hi i have a oscar fish i dont have any gravel any plants just a filter ang an oxygen but it appears that there are small Worms in my acquarium very small Worms attached to my acquarium glass also in the ground glass but my fish look very healthy can you help me? Do i need to worry?
Good to know this 👍👍👀
+madcypress L.L. I probably could have gone into some detail about telling the difference, but I figured people could Google it. Maybe I'll do a companion video.
Informative video, thanks 👍
So they are good? Ok i got scared because i thought they would kill my fish or smthn and they came up because i had to change filters so it got a little dirty so phew
Why don't the fish eat them?
some fish do, but I don't know why most don't.
BURN IT BURN EVERYTHJING!!!!
Phew ......only got a few .... hope they are detritus worms .. how can you tell the difference
Planaria are flat worms with arrowhead shaped heads, and detritus worms are round like a noodle.
I have these something like this but they're thinner (theyre round but thin) that have just shown up out of anywhere. I'm worried about what they are.
There's so many different "white worms" that turn up it's hard to say. However, most of them are harmless so just keep an eye on things and step up the cleaning a bit.
@@DanHiteshew-oneandonly thanks. Yeah I have to I just need to find a way to use the gravel vac without sucking up baby shrimp. I over fed the other day and after that is when I noticed these guys. I'm hoping they're nothing bad. I haven't added anything new to the tank so that's why I'm worried.
I just noticed them in the aquarium that i am treating a few fish that have ich
they dont stick to glass in my tank, they just wriggling around tank. did i misidentified them? they are like small white thread wriggling and appear everytime i finished my water change.
That sounds like detritus worms. They live in the substrate. Sometimes they'll be on the glass when you turn the lights on.
Dan Hiteshew really wondering where they come from. Maybe they were hijacking my driftwood
I really don't know myself. I swear they just appear in the tank. Lol
These are not detritus worms, these are rhabdcoela worms, harmless.
Yep!
I have basically the same thing but there are almost microscopic, are they the same thing? My brother told be just to clean my whole time
I don't know. There's a lot of different "worms" that show up in aquaria.
@@DanHiteshew-oneandonly okay
THANK GOD 😅
Could my detritus worm in my 25. gal tank came from plant where i bought from a local petshop
Probably. It seems like they pop up out nowhere, but they have to have a source. Plants would be my guess.
I maybe wrong but the worm in my 25 gal. Had a bigger head than it's body, i think it's a planaria
I maybe wrong but the worm in my 25 gal. Had a bigger head than it's body, i think it's a planaria
Thank you for the video
These are not detritus worms. Detritus worms are free swimming usually after a water change or when the substrate is disturbed
Agree. Is Rhabdocoela.
Man - I know this is from 2015 but... I really think your fishes are suffocating.
Sweet thanks!
Thank you so much for this video!!
Lol same with me Joshua July Thanks Dan for making a video on this i was about to freak out!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
No need to get stressed.
Hi Dan, Thanks for the video. There is SO much misinformation on detritus worms and planaria, my head is swimming. I have some kind of worm...in water, on the glass. They look like yours but they are SUPER tiny! You can't see them without getting right up on the tank and using a camera helps. Does that still sound like detritus? I just finished cycling so don't have much stuff for them to eat. I think they came in on a plant...but not sure. Ammonia and nitrites are zero and about 5ppm nitrates(which is low) and that's because Im doing water changes more often due to these creatures. It's a heavily planted tank with root tabs...maybe that's the food? Thanks in advance for any thoughts. MM
Sounds like detritus worms. Most people never see planaria.
@@DanHiteshew-oneandonly Thanks
I’m sure you probably figured it out by now but if they’re tiny, more fat chode looking and on the glass they’re definitely planaria, if they are long and thin and “swim” through the water using their bodies then they are detritus
@@Nsobloo I sure did.... pretty sure they are Rhabdocoela worms. Totally harmless but I am NOT a fan! Thank you however for trying to help. Planaria have that pointy head and these don't and they are not all squiggly like detritus. Have them in both my betta tanks, the other two tanks are full of tetras which gobble them up!
@@margomase9831 I have these in my Betta tank too. Super teeny tiny white blobs. So just so i definitely know... they are perfectly fine, right? I shouldn't freak out?? I have only seen them today, but one of my plants have a weird white webbing on it... I'm guessing that's the cuprit. Should I remove the offending plant?
Ive got these in my fry tank will they harm my fry? I was unable to watch the video for some reason it wouldn’t play
They shouldn't. Most likely it's just detritus worms, which are harmless. If it is planaria, then the fry shouldn't be affected by them. Eggs would be at risk though.
Dan Hiteshew ok thank you so much 😊
So you get these in marine tank because I have them all over my glass in my marine tank
I have had my marine tanks go unmaintained extensive amount of times from time to time and I haven't seen those in a marine tank before. Worst thing I get is the red carpet stuff which sucks and really hard to get rid of.
I have something similar in my tank... there's one big worm and rest are small dots that move like shooting stars.
Thank you. I'm doing a fishless cycle day 22 and I about lost it. Whew! I was told not to change my water yet or I'll stall my cycle. So do I just leave it? Will fish eat them? I seen I was getting a little algae it looked a tad hazy on the glass. There on the glass but I cant see if they are in the sand. Eww
I'd leave it alone. They're harmless. Most people have them and don't even know. They only explode when there's way too much food.
@@DanHiteshew-oneandonly it was suggested I up the food because my ammonia wasnt high enough to do a decent cycle. Never doing fish food again. I've never had this in any other tanks before. I searched my tank I took plants from and I didnt find a single one. I'm sure the water is nasty it's been in there for over 3 weeks. Feels so strange waiting this long but the nitrates need to get there. I have to order everything online as I have 0 local fish anything. Id like to be able to get 6ish fish at once (1 inch juveniles )because shipping is $35 to $50. Still trying to research if that's a terrible idea. Everyone says add a few at a time but dang shipping alone is triple if not more than the fish.
@@brooke3140 Six small fish at once won't be a big deal. (or shouldn't be)
I have no idea where those worms come from. They seem to spontaneously generate. Lol
@@DanHiteshew-oneandonlythank you! Shipping is a killer. They're only going to be around 1 inch each so it should work. My tank is now cycled yay! So now I can try to get alot of these guys out. When I'm changing say 20 30% of the water should I rinse the filters in the old tank water? Or will that catch even more worms. I havent checked the filter for worms yet but I'm better there is. I have 2 of the marineland 350 bio wheels and those things push and pull water
@@brooke3140 Don't rinse the biofilters yet. Just change the mechanical filtration.
Mate I got them.gonna get snail 🐌 liquid
perfect, you have angelfish too
oh my god my hero. I'm cycling a new tank and im trying the fish food method... Scared the hell out of me when I turned on the light and saw these monsters
Lol
I just noticed these worms today, there's a bunch on my glass. Not sure how their population exploded. I do water changes every 3 days , my filters are clean with hardly any mulm, no excess waste on bottom and I've been feeding my fish very lightly within the last week. I guess they must have came from some live plants I recently put in my tank. Any suggestions?
No idea what to tell you. They aren't harmful (you can even think of them as part of your clean-up crew).
they'll either go away on their own if you keep a very clean tank like that.
I've never taken any action about Detritus worms. (planaria are another story)
Sounds good. I guess the only other concern is that they are Detritus worms. They look like tiny white squiggly worms.
Joe Amazon detritus worms are fine. It's the Planaria you need to worry about.
Please STOP changing your water every 3 days! That is not good for your tank
Aren t detrius worms much more thin?
How do u get rid of them?
More gravel vaccing, and less feeding. They'll go away in time.
These things killed my snails
well... i put some guppy, they seem like eat it but actually they not..they just vomit it out.. then kept on repeating until all the worms die on the bottom..then i use tube suck it all out. heheh
Omg I love your tank I have an angel fish all alone he killed every fish ive had when I got him 4 years ago I got him with another he killed him, right now his fat just alone in a 55 gallon tank I feel bad any times or is it too late to get him some friends
how do you get rid of them
I just fed the tank less and did more water changes. I don't know if they are gone, but I never see them anymore, so I'm not worried about it. (the detritus worms are harmless)
Oh thanks
The one that appear in my tank is yellow in color and attach in the glass and I notice my fish neon are getting aggressive. I had two neon only. My beta just died. Can you tell me what are these. ? Thank you
No, I'm sorry, but I've never seen yellow worms in a tank before. probably some type of nematode.
Dan Hiteshew thank you!
Get a betta fish are those worm will be gone in 3 days.
I always thought the ones I saw in my tank as planeria. Those do look a little bigger than the ones on my glass. do they swim in the water too?
not to my knowledge. I'm not sure how they get back into the substrate. About ten minutes after I turn the lights on, there's none to be seen. They just vanish.
I need to add a link or do a companion video.
Dan Hiteshew I think the ones in my tank were planeria. I put like Paraguard in and they just come pouring out of my filter and the fish start eating them.
***** www.fish-as-pets.com/2007/11/planaria-detritus-internet-answers.html
I'm going to attach this article.
The ones in my tank don't vanish. They crawl on the glass and use the current from my filter to swim around in my tank all day long.
Dan are these detritus worms... they don't wiggle, so looks like planaria, but i don't know exactly because no video focus.
Detritus worms are segmented worms (like earthworms) and Planaria are flat worms. If you can see one crawling on the glass, look to see if it moves like a snails (stuck to the glass and undulating) or if it moves more like an earthworm.
How the hell do they get into the tank???
so these worms are totally harmless?
Detritus worms are harmless, but planaria can be a problem. Make sure hey are white, tube shaped worms, and you're ok.
If they are flat worms, then it is planaria and you should look into getting them out.
Are planaria harmful to fish?
They can be. They can eat at fish's slime coat and will definitely feed on fish eggs if they are available.
Put some air in ur tank look how fash they are opening and closing there mouths