DiscusDeity
09-26-2019, 03:42 PM
Hi guys! I’m new to the forum and have returned to discus keeping after taking a 6 year break from the hobby.
I can’t figure out how to attach a photo or better yet the video of these tiny worms that are in my hospital tank. I will do my best to describe them.
They are tiny, really tiny. About the size of a 3mm thin piece of thread. I can only see them at night when my tank lights come on and the rest of the room is dark. They float through the water, and then all of a sudden start whipping and squirming for a few moments, and then stop.
I can’t find anything on the internet that looks like these worms.
I’ve showed my video of these worms to my LFS who breeds discus and has for many years, and he says he doesn’t know. I find it hard to believe that he is unfamiliar with them, but I have dealt with him for 20+ years.
Strange thing is that I have never had them in my tank either.
I have another video that shows their “cocoon” on an artificial plant. You can see one moving inside until it is ready to hatch. I think these cocoons are on my sponge filter also. They resemble what an old, waterlogged bloodworm might look like if it was stuck to the side of the filter. As I was inspecting the filter last night one hatched and came whipping out of the side of the sponge filter.
What are these things?? Anyone had anything like them?
Please let me know if there is any way I can post my videos. I’m sure they would explain it much better.
I can’t figure out how to attach a photo or better yet the video of these tiny worms that are in my hospital tank. I will do my best to describe them.
They are tiny, really tiny. About the size of a 3mm thin piece of thread. I can only see them at night when my tank lights come on and the rest of the room is dark. They float through the water, and then all of a sudden start whipping and squirming for a few moments, and then stop.
I can’t find anything on the internet that looks like these worms.
I’ve showed my video of these worms to my LFS who breeds discus and has for many years, and he says he doesn’t know. I find it hard to believe that he is unfamiliar with them, but I have dealt with him for 20+ years.
Strange thing is that I have never had them in my tank either.
I have another video that shows their “cocoon” on an artificial plant. You can see one moving inside until it is ready to hatch. I think these cocoons are on my sponge filter also. They resemble what an old, waterlogged bloodworm might look like if it was stuck to the side of the filter. As I was inspecting the filter last night one hatched and came whipping out of the side of the sponge filter.
What are these things?? Anyone had anything like them?
Please let me know if there is any way I can post my videos. I’m sure they would explain it much better.