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Mystery red worms?

This is a discussion on Mystery red worms? within the Hospital Section forums, part of the Aquarium Related Chat category; I was doing a trim of my 110 planted discus tank last night and came across quite a few of ...

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    Default Mystery red worms?

    I was doing a trim of my 110 planted discus tank last night and came across quite a few of these...... maybe 10-15. By the time I had my camera ready most of them scurried away so I only got a shot of one. Any one have a clue what these are? I was thinking Camallanus which, is bad news for my discus......

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    Camallanus should be fairly obvious; there should be swelling near the ventral area of the fish, and worms should be poking out of the anus. I've no clue what it is, but if your fish aren't affected yet, then I doubt it's harmful. I could be wrong though, and maybe they're just new to the tank and haven't had the chance to affect the fish yet.
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    it could be blood worms. What type of worms do you feed them?
    170 gallon discus tank.
    http://www.bcaquaria.com/forum/tank-...cus-tank-6711/

    90 gallon community tank.
    http://www.bcaquaria.com/forum/tank-...ity-tank-3949/


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    No swelling as far as I can see.

    I feed ocean nutrition flake, frozen blood worms and the occasional live black worm.

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    I'm guessing some kind of leach that came in with the LBW.

 

 

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