Eww gross little worm things living in my hood

[Andy_1984]

First off, I'm grossed out, I wasn't expecting to see them.

 

Secondly what are they and where did they come from

 

They have probably been there a long time and ive only just noticed. They are all living on the bits of the lid that has some moisture on them. All the little specks you see, well, most of them were moving too.

 

Going to thoroughly disinfect my hood tomorrow

 

The length of them varied from 5 to 10mm and as thick as a human hair.

 

Steve, where you at

 

 

 

Edited April 29, 2013 by Andy_1984

[Steve Walker]

Nematodes, Andy. Free living roundworms. Harmless, but a bit icky. Many of them are parasites, but they would be living in your fish rather than in your hood were that the case. Funnily enough, I noticed today that my wildlife pond is full of planarian flatworms, interesting little things.

[Worms]

As above, nematodes!

[Andy_1984]

Cheers lads, horrible little things. Still cleaning my hood and light tomorrow though, blegh.

 

Reckon the little speckles are very young worms ?

[Andy_1984]

Done a major clean and gravel vacuum just now, filled the tank and there's hundreds of the little blighters swimming around

[Steve Walker]

Are the fish not eating them?

 

I would guess that they were living on uneaten food residues.

[Andy_1984]

looking at the fish from a distance they do seem to be eating them, unfortunately if i get any closer the fish wonder what im up to and stop doing what they were doing, they are weirdos

[MICK SMITH39]

RUN

[Andy_1984]

worms been gone for a while now, I removed all the gravel with the syphon in one go and no more worms and treated with de-wormer stuff

 

Really considering not having any gravel at all as in the morning when theres fish crap about and i feed them their breakfast the old crap gets disturbed and then sucked into the filter.