UH OH!

[drobbins27]

In my empty 29g, I have these little white worms crawling over my tank and floating around. There are also these tiny white "fleas" swimming around in the water. They are all alive and moving! What is this Howdo I kill these things

 

[Tempestuousfury]

Is this a brand new tank or did all the fish die or get moved.

They sound like parasites to me, or something of the sort. i don't quite know the treatment.

 

[Dragonslair]

The best thing to do is to empty the tank out, disinfect the tank and decor etc. with a proprietary aquarium disinfectant. When all the decorations and gravel have been removed from your tank and put into a plastic basin, pour boiling water over them. Rinse them again and rinse your tank so that its clear of any residue of disinfectant and replace everything. Fill your tank up and let things settle.
You should then be OK.

 

[swammy]

I was told by someone that a dishwasher (with no soap of course) would get rid of any crap I had on my decor or tank (if the tank fits in the washer). Theoretically it makes sense to me....scalding hot water just rinsing your tank out for about 45 minutes......someone let me know if this would work!

 

[Aquagurl]

Once I had lots of algea on my tank's walls and then I started noticing little worms about 1 mm big, but I soon got platies and they ate them all.

 

[drobbins27]

Maybe thats the problem. I added an algae covered rock from my pond, maybe they leached onto it!

 

[fish_r_great]

DAN did you boil the rock or anything?

 

[Drac39]

Yeah you`ll need to boil the rock,or it will up your Ph,and cause all sorts of problems

 

[akhtar]

could be planeria ? little white worms