advice please!!

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babydragons

Discussion Starter · Sep 21, 2012

So a few months ago I posted about these awful little worms in my tank. I had thought they were nematodes. Easy right? Stop feeding for 2 weeks and do a few big water changes and some good gravel vacs. Wrong. I feel like these worms have not gone anywhere. Then i got a new tank so I decided what the heck. Let them be and ill just make sure the new tank is worm free. Well I think I some how contaminanted the new tank. I juat did a water change and in the bucket were these awful wiggling worms. Not many. Maybe 3. How can I get rid of these awful things. I can't see them in the new tank but I know they are there. In the old tank which is still set up they are just everywhere. They free float through the tank and sometines I think I can see segments. They are white and some of them are like half an inch long. What will get rid of these awful things?

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MABJ

· #2 · Sep 21, 2012

Hehe they are nematodes. They literally eat anything, including eachother if one of them dies.

Did you ever share water, gravel or plants between the two tanks? If so thats how.

There's no real reason to get rid of them. They clean below your substrate and are food for your fish/shrimp.

They do not respond to dog deworming tactics of planaria extermination. But if you ever get a fish like Dario Dario (Scarlet Badis) you'll never have to worry about them lol.

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shrimpedout

· #3 · Sep 21, 2012

With some worms I know people suggest using a dog dewormer with a certain active ingredient that I don't know how to spell. Heh. Try doing a search on it.

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MABJ

· #4 · Sep 21, 2012

shrimpedout said:
With some worms I know people suggest using a dog dewormer with a certain active ingredient that I don't know how to spell. Heh. Try doing a search on it.

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Flubovenzonal? Something like that. Like I said earlier, they easily survived my treatment.

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babydragons

Discussion Starter · #5 · Sep 21, 2012

But if they eat things below the substrate why are they everywhere in the first tank. They are free floating and all over the place

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cprash

· #6 · Sep 21, 2012

Fenbendazole, can be easily had in 1 gram pouches at Petsmart

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Bananariot

· #7 · Sep 21, 2012

Fenbendazole does not get rid of nematodes and yeah they're harmless. Sure they're a sore to the eyes....but that's what we get when we keep shrimp only tanks hahaha. My corydoras pgymaeus tanks are free of worms though xD.

Nematodes exist in the water column, on the substrate surface, and in the substrate. If you ever tear apart a tank...you'll see the fatter almost pinkish ones. Look like tubifex but they're just fat nematodes.

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sbarbee54

· #8 · Sep 21, 2012

Pancur, they will vanish

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babydragons

Discussion Starter · #9 · Sep 22, 2012

Ok so what about getting 2 or 3 nano fish. Would they be able to take care of the nematodes? I realize not all of them are completely shrimp safe tho.

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rodcuda

· #10 · Sep 22, 2012

Even the smallest fish will eat baby shrimp. Only Ottos are completely safe. Cory cats are one of the less likely to eat baby shrimp but are not 100% safe. And they seem to eat the Nematodes.

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acitydweller

· #11 · Sep 22, 2012

You would be safer with pygmae cories.

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rodcuda

· #12 · Sep 22, 2012

Sorry, I did mean the pygmy cories. I guess I thought you would read my mind!!!

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babydragons

Discussion Starter · #13 · Sep 22, 2012

Haha ok I would really have to think about it. It's only I'd they get super bad on the new tank. Thanks everyone!

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