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Fishy-Fishy
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Hi everyone, hope you all had a good holiday season.

I set up a new tropical tank, it is a 12 UK gall with plants that I am planning to put a betta and a few cories in. Anyway, it's been cycling away for a few weeks now and I've noticed all sorts of little life forms populating it. I've got 2 types of snail (pond and ramshorn), planaria (cleaned them up right away), daphnia (don't know where they came from!)

This morning I noticed what looked like a slug. I sucked it out because I didn't know what it was and now it's in a jamjar. It's about 1cm long, pale yellow-ish and really just looks like a snail without a shell. I've tried googling 'freshwater slugs' but I'm having no joy. Does anyone know what it is?

Thanks in advance!
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Not a clue, but I am as interested as you are. You must have alot of live plants in your tank!

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Probably a leech and if there's one chances are there's a dozen hiding out or too small to see. Some attack fish and snails and some just eat leftovers on the bottom. Most people prefer to wipe them out and the ones that don't eat fish seem quite uncommon anyway. Since this is an invert tank you will have to remove all the snails and such that you want to keep and then I would suggest using seachem's cupramine. It stays in solution so it won't leave a copper residue on decorations and can be completely removed by chemical filtration. Cupramine is safe for fish but like all copper compounds it is highly toxic to inverts so they will need a temporary home for about 2weeks. I used cupramine at double dose on my 5g since I didn't even have fish in the tank, then put in carbon for 5 days afterward, and switched the carbon cartridge the day before adding shrimp. The shrimp are still doing fine as are the trumpet snails that I had to temporarily remove. My leeches were eating the snails and looked predatory towards fish so they had to go.
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Do leeches love like snails then? This one was sliding along the glass just like the snails do. I've seen leeches in ponds before and it doesn't look like them, would it be the same kind of leech as that?

ETA- It's not an invert tank on purpose, I just got unlucky with the amount of eggs I got on plants! It is heavily planted.

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I would start all over again & this time try to clean the Plants before putting them in the tank.


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Sounds like you added something that's highly contaminated with pond critters. You could tear it down and start over but I think just hitting it with some copper would do fine. The reason not to use copper on a stocked tank to kill things is that the dying critters will cause an ammonia spike but if all you have is hardy cycling fish in a cycling tank I don't see any reason to tear it down. All you'd have to do is a few water changes so the ammonia doesn't get too high while the copper does the work.
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It sounds like a planarian of some sort. I don't feel a teardown, at the moment, to be justified.
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