How To Get Rid Of Worms In Fish Tank Aquarium | Detritus & Planaria
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- How To Get Rid Of Worms In Fish Tank Aquarium | Detritus & Planaria
WHAT CAN I SAY- worms suck. And I had a ton of them. This is in NO way the "perfect" solution for getting rid of these worms. this was simply the best method I researched from MANY sources & feel works for my tank. PLEASE DO YOUR OWN RESEARCH to accommodate your tank & fish needs.
Meds Used By Me:
Panacur-C-a.co/d/e5nlLHM - let sit w filter on (no carbon) for 2-3 days, then mass water change & new carbon.
Hydrogen Peroxide - 1tbsp- 10gal, sit 15-30 min.
Other Methods I've heard Of (have not tried- be careful)
Copper- not safe for some fish, shrimp & inverts
Bleach solution- use dose caution when cleaning.
No Planaria- takes 3 weeks to ship from Japan but wanted this one.
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"It's disgusting, it's upsetting, and it's depressing, but we are going to kill them." I don't know why, but I burst out laughing at the line.
Cuz she saved the snails...
Maggie Kennedy ?
She's funny!! She really had enough!!! loooll
i laughed at it too HAHHA
So did I 🤣
Lori’s Hartland: Girl, you spoke 500000 words for 18 minutes... Amazing...
All informational, including the panda blanket
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Lol true dat
PATRiC !
Woke up this morning to these and im pissed. NEVER had these before i guess here we go with this now......
Honestly same idk even how I got them I've had the same plants for a long time same with deco qvq
Same here! But the tank was empty due to me moving the fish I had to a much bigger tank & I just did a whole 100% water change, filter & scrubbed the gravel, the tank walls, heater, decorations.. hopefully they won't return.
Ugh same today I have to execute my betta fish....
Same ... i just wanna AHAHH
I swear mine came from one food source. They literally came from the food. I put a little of that food in a Glas and looked after the Glas the next day and yeah they’re alive 😬 I have tanks since I’m 7 years old, I’m 32 now. And at least since I’m 15 I’ve had never worms again. Then I had to buy this food, and totally forgot about worms. Now I think I will throw this food away. It’s in the turtle food, sticks pressed together out of idk worm eggs. There are no worm eggs btw. But literally these worms come from that food. I’m 120 percent sure. You guys probably deal with lots of supplies for the pal st snakes and fish. I guess worms a great money cow for the industry. Tinfoil alarm 🤪
🐛FACTS
🐛 This Video took 5 days to film & edit.
🐛 I have been doing the best I can with my “test” tank & I can’t believe how hard it’s been lol.
🐛I’m sorry this video is so long but I feel this is an important thing to educated on.
🐛 so far I haven’t seen a single worm since🤞🏼
🐛 I have more videos coming very soon, I PROMISE.
I just wanna say. I know that I’ve posted a lot of tank/snail/Tadpole etc. videos lately but it’s truly been consuming my daily life lol. I will of course be making more videos as always since I post 3-4 times a week, but for those who have been watching, supporting & rolling with me through my journeys I APPRECIATE YOU SO MUCH. I’ve been so beyond stressed bc I’m trying so hard, I research so much, I have spent so much money, trying to get this right, I got snails, so I bought & set them up a full tank, now worms lmao it’s been a learning exp. for sure! I’m hanging in there & Patrick has been my rock, helping me lol. I have a video with ALL my pets coming FRIDAY & I’m SO READY. I know you all are too! I just wanted to write this here bc I love you all & it means so much that y’all have been SO supportive with the flow of my channel & the flow I’ve been doing lately & I see y’all! Thanks for watching & supporting! I will see y’all In a couple days!!! 💗💗💗
I imagine that comment took 5 days to write as well 😂 😂
Have you ever tried a new lighting angle to get rid of halo eyes. It is really a peve. Maybe a lighting reflector? Just curious. Love the videos, and I have a question about pacman
I know how you feel. I've been stressing too about content and getting videos out when there is 100's of things i need to do at home right now and now i have family issues that i must put first. Take your time. Your audience will still be here and so will i, supporting you through dry periods and fast periods. I appreciate what you do Lori and i hope you'll continue to care for your beloved pets and share with us their stories, but take care of yourself girl! :)
Thank you so much! I have little tiny white worms in my tank (Ugh! i never get a break) They are so disgusting! I hear they can take oxygen from the water, and i have a betta so that's not good. Anyway, LYSM!
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Help! I have a 55 gallon fish tank and I have had it for 10 years. This is the first time I have seen any wiggly worms. It started with 3 worms I saw when I popped my light on unexpectedly after it had been off for 8 hours. Now every time I turn it on I see more the last time I counted it was 30. It seems like they are increasing exponentially. I almost want to throw the whole tank away and put some plants in it’s place. I have a phobia of worms so the fact that I have cleaned my tank for years without gloves and now there are worms in it has me freaked out. I have watched your video several times and I’m trying to save the fish and the tank because even if I was gonna throw the tank away I still have to clear out a bunch of the water so I’m gonna try to get over this phobia and save the tank. Any pointers would be appreciated.
"Your Welcome to keep your worms if you love them " - Lori 🤣🤣🤣
Detritus worms are in my husband's cichlid tank. I have actually heard it is common and they tend to hide in the gravel. They actually eat waste and only multiply if there is too much waste. I had them in my snail tank before I transferred them to a bigger tank. Fish can actually eat the detritus worms. More frequent cleaning and not overfeeding the tank helps eliminate detritus worms.
I freaked out when I first saw the worms, but hearing from people, I relaxed. I haven't seen any since I did a full water change and cut back on feeding....
My fish actually eats them so I'm thinking of culturing them
Bumpy my tank is in the middle of cycling and there’s an outbreak of them
Sometimes I see one worm swimming and if my betta spots it he fucking eats them lol
Fluffy Corn me too
Passion4Pets they are still there lots and lots of it if u want to be sure get a bottle of ick x dose ur tank and they will all come out of hiding trust me. Let me know how it goes
Oh wow! You have had so much trouble with this tank so far. I'm wishing you the best of luck with this journey. Hopefully things will start to get better now!
Thank you. I knew i was still sane. I fed my tank and went to work. Came back the next day and i was thinking i must have badly overfed with all the "muck" on the glass... But for some reason i decided to look closer and realized those things were moving. They definitely came had to of come off a plant i put in my tank.
Omg, there is a bug
Why is there bugs?
PATRICK
**can relate**😂😂
As a kid/teenager I had freshwater fish. Since becoming an adult, I've only kept saltwater. So it's been a while for me. I recently set up a 3 gal planted Betta tank. Not long after I added the newest plant I started seeing detritus worms. I had the exact same reaction as you. I was like Oh NO NO NO. Not in this house... I removed fish and plants, drained tank into large pot and boiled the water. I dumped that then boiled a fresh pot of salt water to pour over gravel. They hate salt water. Pretty sure they don't like it boiling either.. I did this 5 times before rinsing thoroughly and replacing everything. I may have gone overboard. 😂
U did same as me, a bit insane hehehe.. pour the hot water, its a practical& fastest way to kill those damn worm
Thank you for this video, I’m currently cycling my tank to get it ready for fish. I put in some live plants and ended up with nuisance snails (which I was prepared for) and then the worms! Even with all the research I’ve done to try to get rid of them it’s helpful to find a video about it.
I did not know worms could exist in a fish tank. But I have had snails.... I’m enjoying your fish tank videos and hope you keep doing them. I am learning from you so I will have knowledge for my next fish tank.
Hang in there! You’re doing great. I had frustrations with my past tanks as well. But things will get better and easier over time.👍
She says "disgusting" while her fish are thinking, "Free Food!!".
my betta love the detritus worms...stir up substrate and he has a nice treat
You can feed bettas the worms??
Can detritus worms kill betta fry?
I think that is what mine does as well lol.
How can they, they are soo small
That is what I’m looking at in the glass of my tank thank you.....
You’re awesome I just want to say that bcuz I have done a lot of research for my tanks and fish and you always pop up with a video for it 😆 so thank you!
Have a great day and please tell bagel bite I said hello ☺️
Great job sticking with your tank cycling!! These worms sound like a pain.. I'm learning a lot about cycling though!
Btw youll be ok, my 20 gal had these worms covering it, literally wayy more than you have here, im talking thousands of them. I started feeding my animals about 1/3 as often and cleaned it every 2 days and within a week or two they were almost all gone.
So sorry your going through all this.Dont give up!It will be worth it in the end.
"putting my hands in worm water"......too much. XD
Ikr
Yes, thank you! My Mystery snail eggs haven’t been hatching and I happened to get a good look at a white with black stripes worm living in the egg cluster. This is great information and will hopefully solve my problem!
I don't want to be the one to tell you this, but at 12:07 one of the Planaria went up your wrist and forearm... (';')( ';')... seriously though, these are fascinating composters, and learning more about them may help reduce some of your stress. Or, it could magnify your worm-based anxiety. I enjoyed this video, thank you. They are tiny miracles.
thank you for all of your hard worth with research!
Love your videos!!
I needed this video so bad!! I spent hours a day researching on how to get rid of these worms!! My tank that was still cycling got infested with them. I was about to give up because I just recently had a tank collapse because of planaria and detritus worms. I wish I would of found this sooner. Thanks!!
Awwww!!! I’m sorry!
Lady. Stop repeating that you have worms. We got it. Get to the point.
I really can feel you. In my case, it is the same, first weeks of cycling and A LOT of problems...
Hello Lori, some worms are actually beneficial and means your tank is cycling well. Though I do understand the worry of having worms or some alien in your tanks, and I don't know all the types of worms in tanks. Having a leopard gecko I get really worried of the possible parasites and mites, so I know how worried and stressful it can be.
You are awesome! I know tanks can be a ton! My first community tank got ick and I lost a fish from it which was so hard :( having fish tanks can be discouraging at times but it gets better I promise!
You did great. Thanks for doing the vid💯
Very informative thanks for doing this .
I'd probably just ignore them. With things like these worms, or even some pest snails, they tend to "explode" and then die off eventually. When I started one of my tanks I had a bunch of bladder snails that hitchhiked on the plants, and then they just disappeared after a while. Same with planaria. I did end up with trumpet snails, and they never disappeared, but I'm not mad about it. I think they're really cool. I always worry about putting things in a tank to kill things, unless its a necessary medication. I'm always afraid that it'll mess something up, whether it be the plants, the fish, or the cycle. lol
Yea, agreed. The snails will eat the worms either way. I wonder why I don't have a planeria issue in my goldfish tank... HMMMMM. Lol.
When you do water changes try kinking the hose to drop the gravel 👍🏼
Looks like a cycling tank with plenty of natural food🧡
I love you Lori and your videos. ❤❤❤I'm from the UK and I want to see more videos with blue in. xxx
Thank you for this video! I just noticed these worms in my axolotls tank and I got really worried!
Thank you thank you thank you! I cant stress enough how thankful?i am for this video! You are awesome. I was ready to throw the whole tank out.
I stumbled across your video and noticed you have the same problem that I have been dealing with for months. Luckily you actually do not have detritus or planaria worms. What you have are nematodes which are a cause of overfeeding your tank. If your fish do not eat all of the food and some of it falls to the bottom of the tank these worms develop to help eat the rest of the food. I have tried so many things to get rid of them but they are actually beneficial to your tank in small numbers. If the numbers grow larger, then it becomes an issue. I hope this helps answer your problem and I really admire your tank. :)
Thanks!!!
So the question is, is how to lower the number of worms in the tank ?
@@rburket91, let fish eat'em.
@@rburket91, and an Applesnail.
I just wanna say... What a great video! Thank you for this! Im currently cycling a 50g and I just saw these worms everywhere and kinda freaked a little. I live in a hot city inside a hot country (Brazil) and I remembered seeing a mosquito over my tank a few days ago... I thought they were larvae! Thank you!! The only thing that still bugs me, is how resistant they are to ammonia. Im using pure ammonia instead of fish food...
Yes! I hated them, but they are technically harmless unless they are planaria
Planaria and nematodes are not uncommon while you are cycling, basically because they have plenty of food and no predators. For this reason they are common in shrimp tanks too. They normally disappear once you introduce fish.
really enjoyed watching your video. like you i am in the middle of cycling my new tank and all was ok upto about a week and a half. then i noticed algae everywhere so i did a bit of a clean with the algae and i'm going to do a water change in the morning. then tonight whilst looking in the tank I saw all these tiny worms wriggling everywhere and ended up here so thanks for your advise and video. I have no fish yet but intend getting some when the aquarium is cycled. I'm a first timer so not even sure if i am cycling the tank correctly. Hopefully will get there eventually it's a challange for me and thats what I find appealing. anyways thanks for your video. Phil
THANK YOU FOR THIS!!!
Great information
Thank you!! I just ordered the dewormer. Hope it gets here fast!! GROSS!!!!
Patrick!!!! Great video!!!
I got my crestie because I was inspired by u!! 😘
Ugh! I found worms in my tank today and freaked out! Your video was so helpful! Thank you!
I feel you ,going thru the stringy white poop in my Oscars after I treated for ick that prob didn't exist .omg I'm so grossed out right now I wished I hadn't even started a tank again thank you for sharing.i am supposed to meet up with my fish store today for Pima fix .I wondered about d.e. my mom has some food grade de.
Hi I love your videos
Hi Lori how are you doing today fine I hope. Well not so fine because I see you have worms. I really don't like worms to. I'm so sorry you are having so much trouble with your 🎏 tank. It would be worth it in the end. I really was thinking about getting some 🎏 to but I didn't realise how much hard work it is. I'm redecorating my home and I've had lots of downs and some ups well more downs really. And I really felt like giving up. But I'm carrying on with it because I know it would be worth it in the end. So I can get my 🐈 well I really hope what your doing does the trick. With the worms. You have so many people rooting for you I'm included well take real good care of yourself and your pet's and lots of love from Jackie and Beauty bye for now love Jackie xxxx
I just put a small guppy in my tank and let them eat away then moved the guppy out
Yep I have these exact worms all over my tank! They are everywhere! I did a big water change but it didn’t seem to decrease them.
Interesting. I just noticed nematodes (round worms) swimming around my plants. They are wild collected but bleached so it surprised me. Nice to know they might be detritus worms. I'm working on a natural native tank for our local wetland center so not too worried about them since they are naturally in the marsh with the fish and invertebrates we'll be collecting next summer. But now I know what to do if they get out of control in my fish tank.
thank you for this video
Nice video
Thanks for sharing
Nice information😀😀
You remind me of Elisabeth Moss, thanks for this, had them in my Betta 10 gallon
Fry will devour them in 4 days after they hatch. No worries. I saw a lot of my kirin phoenix tail lionchu fry eating detritus, looked so yummy.
Ammonia and Nitrite bloom caused the worms to come out. They are in every tank, it is part of the echo system. My Aquarium Store suggested me to do a complete gravel wash in tank water, dump out all dirty water. Leave the same tank filter in, yes it probably has worms, badly needed bacteria is in the filter. Cleaned gravel and tank furniture back in tank and add dechlorinated water. Run at least 15 min before adding all life back into tank. Treatment: Bacteria according to the bottle for a week, bring a sample of Tank Water in for testing. Yes the tank will go through cycle with pets inside, gradual and low enough for them to survive. My neon fish is the indicator something is wrong gasping for air at top of tank. I will keep an eye on him. Other than Chlorine Prime and Healthy Bacteria, I choose not to medicate my tank. Water looks so clean no signs of worms, all pets are moving in harmony no stress.
I have planaria and detritus worms in my tank. It’s an experimental tank, but, I would rather not have them in with my shrimp and nerites. This was helpful, and a good heads up to remove sensitive animals in the tank before doing these treatments.
Good job
Why can't you directly start with the solution
Not to be mean-spirited at all, but this was a problem for me as well. When people are freaked out about something they just want to hear the solution right at the top of the video, and not a lot of repeated discussion about how disgusting worms are. Agreed. That's why I came to the video in the first place. Anyway, please take this as constructive criticism!
I wish I was not so tank illerate lol you are very smart .I enjoyed your video and please say a prayer for my oscars and me as well.Ur awesome .this stupid covid 19 is more than enough to deal with.stay safe and I'm now sucribed to your channel.😁
Hi, Lori! I just ordered Thomas Labs fish bendazole for my tank. Since the active ingredient is fenbendazole, similar to Panacur c, will I need to black out my tank? I saw a video of a person who used it and he didn't do a blackout and it still worked, so I'm confused now.
We don't get fenbendazole in my country so I've had to get this shipped from outside for a lot of money :/ can't afford to let the treatment go to waste. Pls do let me know!
Also wanted to ask if dog dewormers which have different ingredients and not fenbendazole would work. A lot of the dewormers available here have Praziquantel, Febantel and/or Pyrantel embonate in them.
Could Lori or any good Samaritan help me out pls? :/ I'm kinda desperate to know! Thanks!!
When I first saw that nasty things in my gravel I didn't know wth they were .now I'm so sick yuck.
Any advice for moving fish and/or snails to a new aquarium without unintentionally transferring worms?
I am so sooo sorry hope it gets better!😭❤️🎀
I have phobia to all kind of worms so this will do nice when I finally get rid of them !
Also extreme measures would be great the whole aquarium with potassium permanganate I just tried it today and it seems it did a damn good job getting rid of them.
Omg, this is such a plague in my life. You are so relatable with your hate speech about these worms, I hope everything goes right for us
"Oh my God there's a bug. Why are there bugs? ......Patrickkkk-" Haha, that had me chuckling
What if you have a dirted planted tank and can't gravel vac? I've never heard anything about having to keep the lights off when using this...
Holy cow. All of these issues make me not want to do a planted tank 😩 I hope you don’t have anymore issues and can finally get your tank cycled!
This is the best reason for using tissue cultures and when it comes to the fish Always send them to a QT 4-6 weeks minimum . They don't have to be $ part of your aquarium " that's BS and the only way they will is if you bring them through used substrates , fish and plants !! YUCK
That's moment she doesn't realize they are good for substrate lol
Found some of the short ones and I can't figure out which type. Same as yours. Are the short ones detritus worms?
😮I didn’t realize you had to cover the tank when fixing the tank!??
Lol youve been having similar problems to me with my tank, i think its clear our problem is we dont quarantine our stuff 😂
I have a problem I see a bunch of planaria in my tank and it's pretty difficult to clean my tank with an arowana trying to jump out all the time. I have a new tank that just recently bought for my arowana since that was getting small for him. I just wanted to know if I could just move him over? because I'm very scared that those worms will move into the new tank when I move him over. So I'm wondering if I should try to get rid of the worms first and when it's cleared than I can move him
I do have Detritus Worms & this video helped me a lot.....& honestly i do need to cut back on the feeding😣..... Anywhooo i freaked when i saw worms in my tank while i was siphoning out the water😨🤮🤢🤯
Daymn, this gal can talk...good luck Patrick
Hey! I was wondering if I could use panacur-c with minnows,snails,shrimp and axolotls?
How about potassium permanganate? It worked when I had planaria in my tank.
Can detritus worms cause scale loss? I have white long worms in my tank and my fish also have scale loss. My water parameters probably arent good. Its hard t know cuz I have test strips.
I recently purchased a few guppies & noticed they seem to love those worms 🪱😀
Zebra loaches are the best snail patrol in a tank :D
Good food source for fish.
My worms came from my moss balls! I see you have them too!
Same i purchased my moss balls from petsmart and i thought it would be a better choice then walmart or Amazon and now looking at my tank with my axolotls boy was i wrong i have no idea what to do now
It’s weird because I have worms in my tank and I had a moss ball that I took out and put in a different container, just a jar, and when I put it back a few days later I saw worms and there’s nothing else I put in there but I’m not sure why this would happen I’ve had this moss ball for about two years now and haven’t had problems?
i bought filters according to my tank size plus i put an extra for good luck 🤣 cleaned the tank after every feeding and now the worms are almost gone i had to get into a better routine im sure the moss balls were carrying these pest but im glad it made me realize it was also my own laziness, that they were able to thrive.
that's probably where mine came from. I ended up throwing the ball out
Ashdon Wellington same
I have two albino sucker fish, should I remove them before medicating the water?
I love my D-worms ! my Goldfish pluck them off the glass like a chip bowl.
Good vid , nice voice.
I have the same exact tank and gravel. The issues also started after I stupidly tried growing plants
I have six other tanks could I just scooped these worms out and put them in my 20 gallon that has swordtails or put them in my betta tank so the baddest can eat them what do I do
I just found detritus worms in my tank after a water change, disgusting but I keep them now cause they benificial in a way
Why do they always appear every water change? So annoying 😭😭😭 still can't put betta to eat them because my tank still 1 week.
The tank get stirred up when a water change occurs and the worms get dislodged and into the water column.
@@gabriella8173 could the water be contaminated?
I never had worms in my betta tank until I got a moss ball because I thought it would be good to get on e for the tank... but nope! Now I have ditritius worms
I also get disgusted with worms saw my first 2 today! I can’t wait to get rid of them but wondering if I should wait until my ammonia levels and nitrates go up first and then treat?
Imagine this happening in a brand new set of tanks that have been cycling water for a month. Just added 6 silver dollars in my connected tank setup and the water that came with them from Petco had these worms in it. Put in some salt and Melafix and a UV sterilizer but this might be a long and difficult battle in such a large complicated aquarium.
One thing I've learned about nature is that even when you think you got em all they are never really gone.
I have lines in my fish tank on the sides they don’t move tho so idk what to do
i hope at the end the tank will be beautiful
Most nematodes are harmless. My cichlid fries thrive on these detritus worms. I actually make sure to maximize feeding for the parent cichlids to maximize the poop output to feed the worms, which feed the fries. Much simpler than hatching brine shrimps. I wish for more worms when there are baby fries around. Sometimes I stir up gravel to release worms hiding in the mulm. But as one of the songs from the Greatest Showman soundtrack laments, there is "Never Enough" worms for my fries. (It does take some discipline in maximizing feeding and not overfeed, and make sure you have a well cycled filter that can handle the nitrite.) I do admit my cichlids are hardy though. They are convict cichlids. ( I just heard Jaws theme song being played.). Welcome to the hobby. May it bring you much joy.
And my shrimp tank is a 5 gallon tank so how would I do so how would I go about dosing
My snail had laid 3 batches of eggs the first batch was literally on the ceiling of my tank, i wasnt sure if they were gonna make it, and sadly they didnt. It looked like some of them hatched but i havent seen them around my tank AT ALL. Then my snail laid the other two batches (one batch on the filtration system and the other onteh side of the tank where its supposed to go), one of them hatched yesterday (the one on the side of the tank) and so far ive counted 19 baby snails. I started taking a snapchat video of them and it gave me a clear biew of the little snails, then i see all the clearish worms moving around them, and now here i am on this video
BUT THEN AGAIN i overfeed my fish :/ i like dump so many flakes each afternoon, what feeding routine do yall recommend