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    Microworms ... yucks!

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    Hi,

    Anyone had experience seeing microworms that is white in colour crawling all over the surface of the tank?

    I notice that there are other insect like living things crawling too!

    Anyone had any idea what are those?
    Will they harm my fish?

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    i don't think it's microworms, microworms are food for fish fry.
    Cheers!

    Benetay

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    hmm .. maybe I should say .. Miniworms....

    There are really lots of these miniworms and insect-like things that is crawling all over my fishtank.

    BTW, I am using a top filter and some gravel stones to hold my plants.

    Anyone had ideas what are those? Parasites? []

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    Ninjafly,
    perhaps u might want to take a look at the following posts and topic to get a better idea.. coz this topic come up b4..
    weird worms in tank
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    Could it be Planarians and Hydra? Check out th elink below...

    http://www.aquabotanic.com/worms.htm
    As Above, So Below...

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    can i feed those worms to my apisto fry?
    Cheers!

    Benetay

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    hi
    please post in the correct section
    moved to fishkeeping

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    ok, home

    as a rule of thumb anything free swimming is non-parasitic in nature
    most likely your fish will eat them, if they can find them
    as for the insect like things, do you have floating plants? if you do, they could be terresterial insects which fall into the soup
    if not, they could be copepods and ostracods
    both harmless forms of aquatic life, mostly

    if you have fish in there, they should go away soon

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