so i had been having some cloudy water issues with my fish tank and these wormy things. ppl just told me that i had been over feeding my fish and told me to clean out my 10 gallon tank. so i cleaned it and reduced feeding and theyre back! HOW IS THIS POSSIBLE? i had just cleaned out my tank days ago like 2 days ago! did i not clean it thouroughly?
Usually we don't notice things like worms and insects, but they are around. Once we start looking for them, we can nearly always find them. There are more insects with a worm-like life stage and wormy things than there are all other animal species combined. This is true both on land and in all kinds of waters.
An over enthusiastic cleaning of the aquarium is going to stir up more stuff than a normal cleaning by removing too much of the cycling bacteria and detrivores that make up a natural support system in the aquarium. This natural support system detoxifies the wastes produced by our fish and out competes worms for food, keeping the sustainable worm population vanishingly small.
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Small fish usually eat worms and other life forms in the aquarium, so these lower creatures are always in hiding, unless something upsets the balance. Over feeding can do it. But that is only one cause. If your fish have grown, they may now be too big to bother with the small worms. Too complete a cleaning of filter material and substrate may have driven worm-like things out of hiding and temporarily increased their share of the food supply.
Some species of fish are better at eating and eliminating these critters than others. Blue gouramis, Cosby gouramis, and gold gouramis, and almost any species of corydoras catfish are excellent choices, but get too big for a ten eventually, or in the case of cories, need a school of their own kind which makes a ten too cramped for them.
What you can do now is to fast your fish one day a week. This will not hurt them and as you realize now, they won't even truly be fasting, just eating "leftovers". You can also use Bausman Tonic to eliminate some of the worm types especially hydra which few fish other than gouramis eat.
Hi! Do you feed your fish frozen bloodworm? If the bloodworms have been left in the tank without being eaten, the blood can leach out into the water and you will basically have a clear worm "shell" left sitting in your tank.
