guppler
Fish Crazy
I was cleaning my isolation tank today and noticed some tiny white worms or something crawling slowly on the bottom of the tank. The last time I found a live worm in my tank it turned out to be a tubiflex worm. I don't know how it got there. I have never knowingly put any worms in any of my tanks unles they were freeze dried, and i didn't think that kind could revive. Maybe some hitched a ride with some plants or fish somehow. Anyway I want to know if the ones i found this time are harmless or good to eat or dangerous.
They are only about 2-3 mm long at most and apeear to be shaped a little like a slug or flatworm. I haven't tried looking at them with a microscope or magnifier yet.
The only fish in the tank where I saw them is Hook. He appeared to be in the early stages of dropsy, so I put him in there to medicate him. He had a room mate for a week or 2. I noticed that she looked sick the day after i started his meds, so I decided she could join him and if they recovered and had kids, taht would be fine, because I was thinking about breeding Hook anyway. she was thin and lethargic, but didn't really have specific symptoms other tahn that. She died, but Hook looks fine now, except that he tends to sit in one place most of the time. I was thinking about adding some girls to see what would happen, but decided to wait, partly because of the worms.
Before Hook went in the isolation /breeding tank it had been empty for a little while and It's only other ocupants were Bright, from the same tank Hook came from, and some girls, all of whom have returned to their regular tanks. I haven't seen any fry from them. Bright migth be getting old, and he doesn't look like the healthiest fish, but he was the only one left with his color pattern. Now Hook is the only Delta tailed Tuxeedo boy I have left. Most of my bigger boys are not as active as they used to be, or as active as my smaller gupplers. Some have pale areas on their tails. I took one dead small one out today, but lately they haven't been dying as often as they have at some times.
I also started medicating one of my girl tanks because one of them has a bad case of dropsy, I would taken her out, but I don't want Hook to get sick again and I don't have another small tank ready, besides, I thought I saw another fish in the same tank with a less obvious problem, and there could easily be others, because I went too long without cleaning that tank. This is not the same tank that the girls I was trying to breed came from, and I don't remember for sure which tank Hook's poor little roommate came from, so if the worms are causing problems they could be in any of my guppy tanks, but might not be in all of them.
They are only about 2-3 mm long at most and apeear to be shaped a little like a slug or flatworm. I haven't tried looking at them with a microscope or magnifier yet.
The only fish in the tank where I saw them is Hook. He appeared to be in the early stages of dropsy, so I put him in there to medicate him. He had a room mate for a week or 2. I noticed that she looked sick the day after i started his meds, so I decided she could join him and if they recovered and had kids, taht would be fine, because I was thinking about breeding Hook anyway. she was thin and lethargic, but didn't really have specific symptoms other tahn that. She died, but Hook looks fine now, except that he tends to sit in one place most of the time. I was thinking about adding some girls to see what would happen, but decided to wait, partly because of the worms.
Before Hook went in the isolation /breeding tank it had been empty for a little while and It's only other ocupants were Bright, from the same tank Hook came from, and some girls, all of whom have returned to their regular tanks. I haven't seen any fry from them. Bright migth be getting old, and he doesn't look like the healthiest fish, but he was the only one left with his color pattern. Now Hook is the only Delta tailed Tuxeedo boy I have left. Most of my bigger boys are not as active as they used to be, or as active as my smaller gupplers. Some have pale areas on their tails. I took one dead small one out today, but lately they haven't been dying as often as they have at some times.
I also started medicating one of my girl tanks because one of them has a bad case of dropsy, I would taken her out, but I don't want Hook to get sick again and I don't have another small tank ready, besides, I thought I saw another fish in the same tank with a less obvious problem, and there could easily be others, because I went too long without cleaning that tank. This is not the same tank that the girls I was trying to breed came from, and I don't remember for sure which tank Hook's poor little roommate came from, so if the worms are causing problems they could be in any of my guppy tanks, but might not be in all of them.
