Hello,
I hope you can help, we have just returned from a couple of days break during which time a trusted friend has come in and fed our 2 SAP (snails, freeze dried crill and frozen bloodworm). We are sure that they followed our instructions.
Anyway, upon inspecting our tank we noticed that the glass on 3 sides had what apeared to be oxygen bubbles (tiny), however when we took a closer look some of these are white only slightly bigger than a pin-head, appear to have tiny tails and are both swimming about but mostly crawling on the glass.
We are alarmed, but our fish seem absolutely fine and have been so since we got them on the 25th April.
Does anyone know what this could be or could offer any emergency advice? There are at least 200 of these little creatures that we can see, they seem to like it best on the glass but are also on our themometer and filter!! We're convinced they were not there a couple of days ago as we check our tank everyday.
My other half has an interesting theory that these may be the result of freezed dried crill eggs. (my nephew kept triops(which are like some sort of prehistoric shrimp) and these started off hatching and looking very similar until they grew, although the eggs were like dark pods which i cannot see in our case) - see link.
http://mytriops.com/
Can anyone please help as we are really worried this is going to harm our puffers!
Thanks in advance
Tank Parasites?? Please Help!!
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1) Your water parameters - pH, Ammonia, Nitrite, Nitrates and salinity (if appropriate). This is by far the most important information you can provide! Do not answer this with "Fine" "Perfect" "ok", that tells us nothing. We need hard numbers.
2) Tank size and a list of ALL inhabitants. Include algae eaters, plecos, everything. We need to know what you have and how big the tank is.
3) Feeding, water change schedule and a list of all products you are using or have added to the tank (examples: Cycle, Amquel, salt, etc)
4) What changes you've made in the tank in the last week or so. Sometimes its the little things that make all the difference.
5) How long the aquarium has been set up, and how did you cycle it? If you don't know what cycling is read this: Fishless Cycling Article and familiarize yourself with all the information. Yes. All of it.
We want to help, and providing this information will go a LONG way to getting a diagnosis and hopeful cure that much faster.
While you wait for assistance:
One of the easiest and best ways to help your fish feel better is clean water! If you are already on a regular water change schedule (50% weekly is recommended) a good step to making your fish more comfortable while waiting for diagnosis/suggestions is to do a large water change immediately. Feel free to repeat daily or as often as you can, clean water is always a good thing! Use of Amquel or Prime as a dechlor may help with any ammonia or nitrite issues, and is highly recommended.
Note - if you do not normally do large water changes, doing a sudden, large water change could shock your fish by suddenly changing their established water chemistry. Clean water is still your first goal, so in this case, do several smaller (10%) water changes over the next day or two before starting any large ones.
Read this before posting!!
Since this board has been up, we have found there are several questions that routinely get asked in order to help diagnose problems. If you can have that information to begin with in your post, we'll be able to help right away (if we can!) without having to wait for you to post the info we need.
1) Your water parameters - pH, Ammonia, Nitrite, Nitrates and salinity (if appropriate). This is by far the most important information you can provide! Do not answer this with "Fine" "Perfect" "ok", that tells us nothing. We need hard numbers.
2) Tank size and a list of ALL inhabitants. Include algae eaters, plecos, everything. We need to know what you have and how big the tank is.
3) Feeding, water change schedule and a list of all products you are using or have added to the tank (examples: Cycle, Amquel, salt, etc)
4) What changes you've made in the tank in the last week or so. Sometimes its the little things that make all the difference.
5) How long the aquarium has been set up, and how did you cycle it? If you don't know what cycling is read this: Fishless Cycling Article and familiarize yourself with all the information. Yes. All of it.
We want to help, and providing this information will go a LONG way to getting a diagnosis and hopeful cure that much faster.
While you wait for assistance:
One of the easiest and best ways to help your fish feel better is clean water! If you are already on a regular water change schedule (50% weekly is recommended) a good step to making your fish more comfortable while waiting for diagnosis/suggestions is to do a large water change immediately. Feel free to repeat daily or as often as you can, clean water is always a good thing! Use of Amquel or Prime as a dechlor may help with any ammonia or nitrite issues, and is highly recommended.
Note - if you do not normally do large water changes, doing a sudden, large water change could shock your fish by suddenly changing their established water chemistry. Clean water is still your first goal, so in this case, do several smaller (10%) water changes over the next day or two before starting any large ones.
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Re: Tank Parasites?? Please Help!!
Sounds like planaria. If so, they are harmless and are from overfeeding. To get rid of them, cut back on how much is fed.
Do an internet search on planaria and see if that's what you see.
EDIT:
http://www.fishdeals.com/fish_diseases/ ... ite_worms/
Do an internet search on planaria and see if that's what you see.
EDIT:
http://www.fishdeals.com/fish_diseases/ ... ite_worms/
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Re: Tank Parasites?? Please Help!!
It's normal to get these worm like things in a tank that has been over fed. I can't remember excatly what they are called. 
It's not a danger to your fish, just an eye sore to you. 
A good couple of tank cleanings, cut back on food and they will go away.
It's not a danger to your fish, just an eye sore to you. A good couple of tank cleanings, cut back on food and they will go away.Need to know what kind of puffer you have? Click on Puffer ID.....Puffer ID: ug.php/v/PufferPedia/
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Re: Tank Parasites?? Please Help!!
Phew! I think.
We have both very thin worm like ones (only a few), but then lots of tiny tiny white pin like creatures that also look like they are 'crawling', i suppose these could be baby versions.....?
Just over worried probably.
We will obviously cut back on the feeding and try a few water changes to address the balance, i just did some quick reasearch and some suggest that buying a pleco or similar is the best and only way to fully rid the tank....
We have both very thin worm like ones (only a few), but then lots of tiny tiny white pin like creatures that also look like they are 'crawling', i suppose these could be baby versions.....?
Just over worried probably.
We will obviously cut back on the feeding and try a few water changes to address the balance, i just did some quick reasearch and some suggest that buying a pleco
or similar is the best and only way to fully rid the tank....-
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Re: Tank Parasites?? Please Help!!
nah, You don't need a pleco. just a water change/gravel cleaning and less food 
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Re: Tank Parasites?? Please Help!!
Yep, less food, vaccuum up the uneaten stuff in the water, and they'll die off.
