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Tropical Fish Keeping Help and Advice => Fish Health => Topic started by: adiv on November 28, 2022, 08:10:47 PM
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hello everyone, i have a problem.
for the first time, i have seen a worm of some sort in my shrimp tank. it is long (1.5 inch) black very skinny and fast. as soon as i saw it, it wriggled at extreme speed and buried itself into the sand.
has anyone come across long, black skinny worms before?
in the tank, i have probably 50 to 100 red cherry shrimp (from about a quarter inch upwards) and a dozen assassin snails and was wondering if there are any shrimp types or snail types that might eat shrimp. i know that i could put guppies in the tank but they would also eat the shrimp babies
Thank you
ivor.
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Detritus worms. They’re not a problem, and they’re actually quite common in tanks. Most Loaches will eat them but most fish tend not to bother unless they make themselves obvious. Shrimp and snails won’t touch them either usually. You can limit their numbers by keeping the substrate clean to limit the amount of food available to them, but you probably won’t get rid of them all. They’re a useful ‘clean-up crew’. :)
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thank you Hampalong, that is great news. i am in the middle of washing my filters in very hot water doh! :rotfl: so far only done the built-in filter which i am going to dismantle anyway, but my big internal i will clean properly in tank water
i had already decided not to feed shrimp for at least a week apart from lolly sticks which the shrimps demolish very quickly.
thank you
ivor