Worms... I'm scared!

Rincewind

Okay I've got a 5 gallon baby tank with 3 babies in it, one betta and two guppies. I'm feeding them all liquid food. That makes the water kinda nasty. Before I tried to change it every day but one I accidentally changed my other betta baby with it and now I try not to do that.

Anyhow I saw some white tube shaped stuff on the floor of the tank last time I changed and then when I was about to scrub it off some red worms started wriggling out! Now I think I see a few of those tube things again. Will the worms hurt the babies, or can my Betta eat them...? Please help me!

dlee9707

Your fish will probably eat them, the best thing to do is to reduce their food source, stop feeding liquid food and turn to fewer feedings of brine shrimp or crushed flakes, this should lower available food. In the mean time vacuum out as many as you can.

Maybe a parasite treatment will help get rid of them, usually worms arent bad but sort of disgusting, and always a sign of over feeding (or in this case the wrong type of feeding possibly)