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Started my fishless cycle yesterday and today I noticed about 3 or 4 worms clinging to the glass on my tank (also saw one sinking) at first I thought they were tiny specs of dust as I have a fair amount of specs on the side of my glass but then noticed it was wiggling! Can anyone identity this work for me?

Took a distance shot and a close up of the worm.
 

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Looks like a detritus worm which feed upon waste and left over fish food, you fish will eat them or give your gravel a good vacuuming. If you can you eye-spots then they may be planaria which are a flat worm and are harder to get ride of.
 
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Looks like a detritus worm which feed upon waste and left over fish food, you fish will eat them or give your gravel a good vacuuming. If you can you eye-spots then they may be planaria which are a flat worm and are harder to get ride of.
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I can't see any spots on them but if you look closely you can see two antenna like things sticking out of their head?

They seem to have appeared the day after I added the first dose of ammonia.
 
From what I can see there are about 3 or 4 of them all on the glass. If anyone knows what these are then I'd love to know in case I have to attempt to remove them before I add my fish.
 
I think I have about 5 or 6 planaria worms in my tank during a fishless cycle. How should I proceed? I don't know if I'm supposed to just let the cycle fish and let the fish eat them or if I'm supposed to get rid of them before I add fish. If so then how so then how do I get rid of them?
 

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they eat fish eggs and dead fish, and are in every freshwater aquarium.
 
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