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I have a 4g tank with a betta in it and a lot of plants.
Irecentely fed it live food(tubifex)and now i have some small 1-2 mm long wite worms that are on the glass water and on my betta .

What should i do.



Sorry for the speling i'm in a rush now.

The small, white worms are planaria. They are harmless to the fish, but they can quickly take over a tank if there is excess nutrients. Feed the fish a few betta pellets a day instead of tubifex worms, because if the worms escape and die somewhere in the tank, that is a huge feast for the planaria.

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I'm not your neighbor, you Bakersfield trash.

You can also leave the Betta without food for a day or two & the Planaria will disappear.



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Yes i know the white worms are planaria but what are the small white things.Now that i have time i will explanin you how they look like:

They are very small white fusiforms things.The size of them is equal with the size of newly hatched brine shrimp from poor quality eggs.The "swim very fast and they are on the water surface,on the glass and in the water.I noticed that they make hight concentration in the corner that is opposite from my co2 air stone and near the heavy algae areas so they must need high levels of oxigen.
I don't belive that they came with the tubifex because the other aquariums don't have a problem. I belive that because the little tank is open top and that the light stays there long after any lights had been turned off soem insect must have her eggs i there.
I don't belive that they are any danger for the betta butjust to be sure i'll make an 80% water change and maybe some methaline blue or malachite green.
I do not belive that they are planaria because i have these worms too with them. Unlike planaria they can swim in free water without making the weird spiral movement, and thaey do not "walk" like planaria.

The reason that i feed my betta with tubifex is that i want to breed them. The lost tubifex and up in the substrate and do the job of aereting it like bloodworms do whith soil. They do not die fr about 2-6 months.

Speeking of fry do you think that the baby betta will eat this larvae?

Yes i know the white worms are planaria but what are the small white things.

What?

If they were what you described in your last post as "small 1-2 mm long wite worms", then they are planaria. They will not go away unless you feed less food to your fish.

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I'm not your neighbor, you Bakersfield trash.

What i ment is that there are two different things in my tank. There are planaria and there are ostracods.
They are something like daphnia only live in freshwater, feed on algae, are less then a mm long.
They are clearly not larvae because theycan multiply.
So do you have other opinion?
CAN I FEED THEM TO BETTA FRY?

Last edited by dukydaf at 19-Sep-2005 13:32