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Worms on the glass

This is a stable, moderately stocked, heavily planted 60 gal tank that has been up and running for at least 6 years.

Recently while performing routine partial water change with light substrate vac, I discovered very small blood red looking cri

This is a stable, moderately stocked, heavily planted 60 gal tank that has been up and running for at least 6 years.

Recently while performing routine partial water change with light substrate vac, I discovered very small blood red looking cri
Worms on the substrate can be common, but more often they are white rather than red, so the organisms you mention are not familiar to me. In any case, we do not have a product that will safely kill or remove these animals. Hagen's approach is more to supplement the aquarium with beneficial bacterial teams to remove wastes and eliminate ammonia and nitrite from the tank, we do not manufacture any antibiotics or other parasite controls that use toxic compounds to kill.

In general the cause of this is a sudden overpopulation of worms that are normally found living in the gravel as part of an established aquarium that have exploded to the point where there is nowhere for them to go but up on the glass. Thisis usually asign tha tthe gravel has not been properly maintained and has a great deal of waste in it. Mechanical gravel cleaning and siphoning will remove quite a bit of the food source. otherwise, the best available method would be to use Waste Control to work over time to eliminate excess organic materials that would slowly deny the worms food and thus control the population with food availability.

Sorry we don't have the perfect remedy, but Hagen is much more interested in using safe and beneficial products to help the aquarium, we don't have any parasite or worm controls in our arsenal.

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Worms on the glass

This is a stable, moderately stocked, heavily planted 60 gal tank that has been up and running for at least 6 years. Recently while performing routine partial water change with light substrate vac, I discovered very small blood red looking cri

This is a stable, moderately stocked, heavily planted 60 gal tank that has been up and running for at least 6 years. Recently while performing routine partial water change with light substrate vac, I discovered very small blood red looking cri

This is a stable, moderately stocked, heavily planted 60 gal tank that has been up and running for at least 6 years.

Recently while performing routine partial water change with light substrate vac, I discovered very small blood red looking cri

This is a stable, moderately stocked, heavily planted 60 gal tank that has been up and running for at least 6 years.

Recently while performing routine partial water change with light substrate vac, I discovered very small blood red looking cri