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My first reaction to seeing Detritus worms in my tank was one of horror. I, too, thought my fish were infested with some kind of parasites.
Now that I know what they are, I embrace my tank's mature biome, with its snails, Detritus worms, and even a couple Planaria. Even the latter is harmless in small numbers unless you are raising shrimp or fish fry.
Thanks for the info. Very reassuring for those of us who weren't quite sure.
Recently, I had an ammonia/nitrite spike in my 10G due to overfeeding. One corydoras died, I pulled him out and started removing detritus buildup before a water change. As I did it I started to see hundreds of detritus worms swimming all over the tank. I guess this was due to disturbing that detritus before vacuuming it. I was worried if that's a serious bloom, so I was trying my best to suck them in a tube while changing water, but the number seemed to stay the same, and I was panicking a bit as it was my first time seeing these little guys and there was such a crazy amount of them. A quick google search calmed me down, and after an hour they settled in the sand doing their thing. This was in the morning.
I knew that detritus worms play one of the essential roles in low-tech unfiltered fatherfsh-style aquariums, but deep inside I still didn't like the fact that there are thousands of microworms on my work desk. But today I saw your video, and it thought wait a minute, the vermicompost is my favorite houseplant fertilizer, and detritus worms might be doing the same thing with fish poop and stuff, contributing to the cycle.
Thank you very much for discussing that important topic, so people can think more of what's going on in their aquariums instead of gravel vaccing like crazy trying to stop the natural cycle.
Greetings from UA
Cheers!
Edit: plus detritus worms can be a perfect food for nano fish in a low maintenance tank. They can eat them especially at night e.g. when you're on vacation
I like how all the fish are staring at him.
Just noticed these in my new tank cycling it . Also a diatom algae phase. Ready for shrimp now.
Woke up this morning and found what looked like thousands.
Same here! First time I saw mine was thousands of them just chilling in water. The settled in the sand after an hour
Insightful, thanks for your profound perspective,
Thank you! I noticed detritus worms in my aquarium today when I pushed a plant into the substrate and they floated up into the water column. I was worries at first, but now I'm happy to have them in the ecosystem! 🎉
Good Detritus Worm discussion bud. I'm always pretty pleased when I see them in my tanks, sign things are doing good.
Superb …. Piece of mind information ….i just saw and panicked and started searching… my luck i clicked your video….
i like how all the fish are staring at him.
Thank you! This is my first planted tank with shrimp and I just noticed a few as I was doing a water change and freaked out because I thought they were the same as planaria. This confirms that my tank is doing well and I appreciate the information.
This guy gets it.
Apart from helping your tanks, they make a great snack for your fish. I actually culture the worms with daphnia.
Also, the detritus worm is a type of tubifex worm, related to the 'sewer worm' (tubifex tubifex) that are sold in fish stores
I have free critters and I do consider it a bonus: ramshorn snails, detritus worms, springtails, scuds, duckweed. My goldfish consider them between-meal snacks.
That snakeskin gourami is my all time favorite fish. Just gentle graceful giants.
100%! i neglected my maintenance, i started seeing them in the tank, alot of gunk everywhere in the substrate, rocks etc. I started doing a massive gravel cleaning, rinse filter with tank water, few days later, i dont see them anymore! i always thought they are like dust or hair lol until i see one of them started to wiggle then im like uh oh
I always wondered what those little nocturnal wormies were, I took a pond muck sample home and had a bunch of reddish ones and they'd all dance when the lights were off
Am definitely a Detritus Worm supporter 🪱🪱🪱 .
I just saw one SPIT OUT a piece of sand?? They are freakyyyy
Just noticed detritus worms in my tank just turned the light on and saw a tiny white wiggly thing on the glass so decided to have a look on Google to see what it was and then decided to look on CZcams because I knew someone would have a video on it and I can say this explains everything perfectly. I wasn't sure if it was a parasite at first as I have never seen them before so I thought I was going to need to go to my local pet shop to get anti parasite but turns out I probably just need to give my tank a good clean out. Thank you for making this video so helpful and easy to understand I wasn't sure if it was going to be a case of take absolutely everything out my tank and pretty much boil it to kill them but looks like I just need to clean my tank a little more often. Oops.
Totally agree. I do search for planaria as that really is bad for my shrimp and snails.
My Dwarf Gouramis, Habrosus Cory, and Endlers love the detritus worms. I don’t like Planaria because of my Neocaridina shrimps.
I am new to Aquariums. I was very upset seeing them. Luckily, I joined the local Club and learned that most likely either cam with plants and/or fish. I only noticed them when I was switching my Betta to a larger tank. I am hoping that when I added some of the old gravel to the base of the new tank and typed it with new gravel, that they came along for the transfer. I am switching another tank to a larger tank and will make sure that I catch some. Thanks for this very interesting video.
I have had aquariums for years, 90 gallon sand bottom with Red Devil and never noticed . Was shocked to find them in my 20 gallon with 2 tiny parrot cichlids and they dug into the gravel and got a bloom everywhere. It’s a old community tank that we changed over so 3-4yo set up. I guess they were dug into. I will do a clean. Thank you
Very helpful video, thanks 😊 👍
tysm for this video! i’m currently setting up a quarantine tank and i moved a filter from my established aquarium over to help it get settled. i damn near had a heart attack when i turned it on and dozens of these little guys came out. at first i thought it was gunk of some kind but to make sure, i turned off the filter to see if they were wiggling around bc of the filter’s current. had me worried since i just recently took that filter out of my main tank and i was so scared all my fish were infected with parasites
I was so scared that planaria had appeared in my new tank that's cycling and I'm planning on eventually getting some shrimp into... but if it's these guys and they eat doodoo I'm happy, and it means the water is probably getting decent now but I have to vacuum a bit more. They don't look like planaria at all when I look at the comparison, they are way too small and move more like snails do... thank you for the informative talk, a newbie like me appreciates all of the extra information
The fish tank is so beautiful, sharing is very interesting, thank you for sharing, always supporting and accompanying you to develop
Thanks for the breakdown. Necessary!
This is so informative! Great job, fantastic reporting!🌻🌼🐝 Keep it up 🙌
Seasons don't fear detritus worms, nor do the wind, the sun, or rain. We can be like they are.
Don't fear detritus worms....
Lol That was fun.
Interesting info. You breakdown info effectively
Holy crap the size of those rainbows in the back!!
Great info. Thank you!!
Other fish sees : Worms 🫨
My fish : come here baby 😉
I’ve had planaria worms in a few tanks. They don’t seem to worry my fish and hide themselves when the lights come on. Just wish my fish saw them as another live food.
Eggs, and shrimp are really the biggest concern with planaria. Most fish won't be bothered by them.
Guppies like to eat them.
Very interesting. Great explanation.
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Detritus worms are Annelids, not Roundworms.
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Snails are the original canaries in the coal mine.
If you notice all your snails at the top of the tank, its a huge red flag. Check your NH3 and nitrates immediately.
Guess im keeping these worms…thanks for the information
Thanks for this. I got very concerned when I see them and started parasite treatment.
very helpful info thank you
Really useful video👏👏
Youve got a good thing if these are in your aquarium. Natural food source, leads to having to feed less, which leads to a 0 phosphate reading, which leads to very little in the way of algae blooms.....the more natural things in your aquarium, the better off it will be.
Forbidden spaghetti...
If you notice that your Aquarium has no water in it, that's an early warning sign too. 🙂
Great informative video thanks 👍
Dan some people wait for there filters to stop working to service stuff . It’s really silly. They even blame the filter lol 😂
Well you did say the filter stopped working. I'd blame the lazy filter too. Get a job you bum!
I find it funny 😄 because most of the time 30 percent of there water end up on the floor lol 😂
Very helpful video, thank you for sharing your knowledge. I’m doing a fish less cycle(10 gallon fully planted), dosing with fish food, and noticed these detritus worms and cocepods 3 weeks into the cycling. I plan to add some shrimp, and then a betta. Will the shrimp eat the worms?
I'm not sure, but I'd guess no if I had to say.
Yeah it's detritus not planaria, thanks. I just got off work and first time ever noticed them. I just in the last month added a very small ba y red eared slider and as of 4 days ago neocardina shrimp to my tank with 2 mosaic guppies, 2 black Molly's, and 1 tiny pleco. Barely turning darker, was almost clear when I got him.
I inherited an ecosystem in a shipment of plants...including planaria...but I accepted it, manage numbers with traps, have had no snail deaths since adding fish, and still set traps weekly. Its manageable. The worst thing you can do is throw a chemical in your aquarium....not only will it kill planaria, it will kill everything else, so is that over reaction worth the price of an extinction level event which will remain in your substrate? No, its not. You'd be better off to rip it down and start from scratch.
Great info!
I’ve got a large detritus population in only one of my unused tanks. I’ve got a wall of micro tanks I’m using for breeding shrimp, snails, and some fish. Do you think I should intentionally move them to all of the others sooner than later?
I wouldn't worry about it.
Why are my detritus worms just chillin on the glass 24/7? It's only a 2 week old tank, and I haven't put any food in the tank at all.
I don't know.
I've got them in my shrimp tank, I don't gravel vac cause I don't want to disturb the shrimp or suck em up accidentally. So I'm not sure how to solve the detritus worms. I never feed the shrimp, they eag almond leaves and algae. That's it. So now I'm thinking I need to add endlers and hope they keep detritus in check.
😂 little piece of spaghetti 😂 exact description ❤
Really really good vid Dan!
In the little free manuals from Sera that came with my first tank long time back in the 90' they talked about exactly this. It's a shame that those manuals don't come off anymore for free they really make people stay in the hobby 🐌🐛🦀
Edit: Also are tons of planaria species and apparently the more predatory ones live among really cold, fast moving / salty water.
Will they be stuck to my tank glass I keep seeing they’ll be in the substrate
Detritus worms are usually in the water column or substrate. Planaria is usually on the glass.
My pea puffers usually eat them
Hey, I was just wondering if the worms can escape the tank because there is one on the bottom of my lid and some on the lip of the tank where the lid sits
I'm not sure, but it appears so in your case.
sir, are these worms can be eaten by a week old betta? thanks sir for the reply
A week old seem a bit young, but i believe they will eat them as adults.
I've noticed seed shrimp, as well as the skinny white detritus worms in the substrate and floating through the water column in my neocaridina tank. I have also noticed other worms on the glass, that i thought were planaria, but they don't appear to have the arrow shaped head, nor do they move like an inchworm, they move more like snails on the glass, and they're rather speedy. They are also shorter and fatter, but they are white as well. Is this another species of detritus worm or something else?
I'm not sure what it is. Planaria definitely have a distinct arrow shaped head.
I just found a detritus worm in a new tank I set up for shrimp. Just plants and hardscape now which were transferred from a plant grow out tank. No food waste. No lack of maintenance on a tank with new substrate. So then why a worm?
They probably came in with the plants. Just about every tank with substrate gets them somehow.
Hey Dan, when I did a water change just before adding my shrimp, I had some worms come up from the substrate…thought they were detritus worms, but now unsure since you said max length is an inch. Some of these that I had seen were like 2-3” long, moved by stretching body like you said planaria do, some on glass, some free floating, some on surface of soil. Any thoughts what they could be? They’re visible in one of my videos, I’ll find it and comment below with the link.
Dang it ..I think I edited it out before uploading. I’ll send you an email with a couple of video clips of them.
That's not detritus worms.
Not sure what you're describing, but it doesn't sound like detritus worms.
Eeeh - I got rid of my last tank because I saw these worms - now I have them again - I think I’m feeding my fish too much - did a water changed and vacuum yesterday - these things were everywhere swimming and wiggling - It freaked me Out !! So I guess I need to do more water changes and vacuuming?
If they're in the water column and wriggling, they're detritus worms. They're harmless.
Never had them during the past 10 years or so. How can i get them?
I suspect they come in on plants.
They're disgusting. I had a mini breakdown when I realised, they were in my shrimp tank😪 I am slowly removing everything in the tank, plants, gravel etc so was upset when you said even bare bottomed tanks can have them in. Shrimps can get upset with changes, so its a long process. I always scrape them off the glass and if I see 1 floating in the water I catch it with tweezers. Are they the sort of worms that if they do get damaged, they dont die, but just grow another part. I've read that some worms do this?
It's a myth that if you cut an earthworm in half, it'll grow two new worms. If you cut in half, it dies like any other animal that gets cut inhalf.
As far as your tank is concerned, if it's only the detritus worms, you don't have anything to worry about.
Planaria can be a problem in a shrimp tank. They can eat the eggs.
@@DanHiteshew-oneandonly Thankyou. Thankfully no planaria, Ive researched them, I would prob have a heart attack if I saw one.
I actually find them cute, they so small and they interact with each other, and when they find a floating leaf or something they inspect it like hmmm food??. They cute
Dan mentioned earthworms dying once cut in half like any other creature, but. Planaria are being brought up (in contrast to the detritus worms) :
(Possibly) junior biology lesson about microorganisms in pond water and basic microscope skills. I'm remembering this was my very favorite part of the class. Planaria actually DO survive being cut in half, well, more like in 2/3rds.. but the more remarkable is, the animal will grow an additional head if it is cut lengthwise . .(so, as long as the original head is still partially connected to its body.)
Remember that from high school science ?
.... oh nature, always competing with science fiction. . .
I am now oddly hoping someone will post that they discovered a two-headed planaria in their tank.. because maybe it pissed off a tiny crayfish ..with precision claws🦞
Just finished cycling my aquarium and put 2 guppies it in last weekend, 1 week. I noticed detritus worms the very same night. Can’t be over feeding cuz I only fed a small pinch of food 1 time after putting the fish in. I am doing bout a 20% water change each day for a slight algae bloom. I have an air stone, co2, live plants. Why am I seeing these? Also, I have seen my guppies eat them. Is that ok?
Not sure how they get in tanks, but they seem to be in any tank with substrate. They're great food for guppies.
I've been needing to introduce them into my filterless aquarium setup. Where in the hell can I get them? Anyone want to send me a soil sample? :)
Anyone have those in Milton Keynes MK6 Area UK
I had a few dwarf gouramis few years back. I'm from north eastern part of India where dwarf gourami is a native fish. Suddenly my gouramies developed swelling of their bodies and then their eyes were slowly protruding out. Scales of their bodies gradually sprung up, they became slowly unable to move freely and eventually they all died. But in that episode some of my other fishes such as few Serpae tetras and Danios also died in a similar manner. Was it DJD I'm not sure. One of my doctor friends told me that it was Dropsy disease caused by bacterial infection that can be triggered by many different factors. I tried treating my fish with some antibiotics but could not save my gouramies. It's been 5/6 years since then and I have not gathered sufficient couraged to try gouramis again. Anyone has any information on this or can help will be welcome.
I've had similar issues with Dwarf Gourami.
@@DanHiteshew-oneandonly Ok. Is it Dropsy??? If it is, can you suggest any prevention and treatment for it?
@@candidonthestreetanupamgos5283 I really don't know what to tell you. I never had any survive getting like that.
@@DanHiteshew-oneandonly thanks for the support. I just got some insight. Searched Dropsy fish disease and there are some CZcams videos that suggested treatment with Epsom salt, ivermectin and Androfloxin. I am sharing some links for you. Hope it will help you as well.
@@DanHiteshew-oneandonly czcams.com/video/5hkmkhfORzw/video.html
How do you get these worms? How are they born
do detritus worms latch onto the fish sometimes?
No, not that I'm aware of.
I watched this because I have a lot of worms on my tank glass. The worms I have are really small and white but I don’t see a pointy head. I don’t know if they are detritus or not but I have had my light on and they have not gone down into my substrate. Also I have not put any food in my tank and I just added 8 cherry shrimp 2 days ago. There is no smell. And my tank has been set up for a week, so if anyone knows let me know
use a magnifying glass or zoom in on a clear photo to get a better look.
@@DanHiteshew-oneandonly I will try that but I don’t think they are anything to worry about
Some ppl say it’s a healthy sign to see one but am I getting this correct you think not?
I don't know if it's "health" to see it, but they're a pretty common inhabitant of aquariums. They aren't harmful.
R u streaming soon?
Detritus worms are awesome and never had them, planaria on the other hand are evil
detritus cant over populate my tank no mater how many food i put in because i have guppies that controls their population i used to have an out of control of detritus but all is gone when baby guppies emerged
I have this ugly 🪱
How can you be so thrilled to have a filthy tank?
Who thrilled to have a filthy tank? Did you watch the video? Do you understand what I'm explaining to you?
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