Tank infested in micro worms. Please Help...

[hirowen]

My 3ft tank is infested in millions of micro worms. Any way to eliminate them without hurting my arowana? Please help.

[Jungle-mania]

You have a picture of your tank and the worm? Bit hard to tell anything without any info.

[XnSdVd]

guppies. lots of hungry guppies

[michael lai]

my choice is tiger barbs.

[hirowen]

it useless to post the pic cuz the worms are very micro. I have posted this on AF and they recommend me to use tiger barbs as well and to change the cotton. Will update you all.

[benny]

Probably a result of over feeding and the source of the food may have contained some contaminants. Watch your feeding from now on.

You can consider more frequent water changes and scrubbing the tank each time before the water change. But it will take quite a while before you are rid of these fellas. At the same time, you can consider some medication that kills invertebrates such as snails and external parasites. Dose correctly.

Cheers,

[jacquetlc]

are they tapeworms? they are somehow like a 1cm white thread, but transparent. the 'eggs' stick to walls of the tank as well? the water seems to have millions of white tiny particles...?

I've just had a bout of these things. dose medicine for 3 days, all DEAD! now tank is healthy again.

[hirowen]

Hi guys! Back with the updates. I didn't dose any medicine cuz i'm worried i might hurt my aro. What i done is i throw in 10pcs of tiger barbs, after 5 days my tank is clear of tape worms. Yeah!