Help! thin white worms seen crawling on tank.

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Hi,

Saw thin white worms crawling in my tank. What are these? Where did they come from? Thanks!

Cheers,

[lastmanstanding]

They could have come from your LR?

[surfedelic]

Did you feed your fish with market prawns or squids etc ? Are the worms on the panel of your glass ?

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Tried to feed the fishes wif market fish. But the fishes seem dis-interested after nipping at it. IS there a relation?

Yes, the worms are crawling on the glass panels of my tank. What does that mean?

[Tiny Tears]

I think you should go to the parasite forum, and check Achilles Tang thread re Flatworms.

Some kind soul has posted a web link, there, showing a picture of the flatworms. might help you to identify what you got....

[surfedelic]

I used to feed my fishes with market prawns in my old tank very very long time ago about 8, 9 years back ... and my tank was plague with whiteworms .... it was a torture during then ... i removed all the liverocks and clean my entire tank still ... the worms exists ...... only recently I realised that the worms are coming from the stuff I got from the market and i fed it to the fishes ... I stumble upon this fact becasue I had another friend who encounter the same thing while doing that..

During then when I realised that my tank was heavily plague by those worms, furthermore internet wasn't popular, i gave up marine for awhile becasue I was about to be enlisted to the army . So I couldn't really gave you the proper advice..

You should stop feeding wif raw stuff from the market and replace them with pellets or maybe frozen Brineshrimp ...or if you need to make sure they are clean with maybe warm water .....perhaps freezing them before feeding might help ..

[XPeriment 626]

You're not referring to copepods are you? Water currents make them look like they are "waving", but actually they're just anchored there and not going anywhere. Unless of course you actually see them walking around all over the glass then be worried

[surfedelic]

they are white worms - not copepod. Copepod looks more like a small insects.

[blueheaven]

You're not referring to copepods are you? Water currents make them look like they are "waving", but actually they're just anchored there and not going anywhere. Unless of course you actually see them walking around all over the glass then be worried

Copepods are supposed to move about.....

[XPeriment 626]

oops ok.

i though copepods only move when they have matured... in the larvae stage they just hang there from your glass...