question: shaking head

[edwliang]

i want to know why my mendezi shakes his head sometimes, and sometimes sprints. after all, he acts pretty normal. btw, he is the only apisto in tank now.

 

[sasikan]

could it be that he is itching? external parasite? (nice plants)

 

[edwliang]

could it be that he is itching? external parasite? (nice plants)

maybe. ...i can see some very tiny white worms sticking on the glass, moving very slowly.....what should i do?

 

[sasikan]

i have had some of those very small white worms in my aquariums i added corydoras and they ate them all, i don't know if we have the same worms but it did work for me!

 

[gerald]

The tiny white or tan worms crawling on the glass or swimming through the water are scavengers, not parasites. There might be parasites irritating his gills (protozoa, flukes, etc) but you wont see those swimming or crawling around the tank.

 

[edwliang]

i have had some of those very small white worms in my aquariums i added corydoras and they ate them all, i don't know if we have the same worms but it did work for me!

i also have another kind of white worms, even smaller, and jumping around, moving along the inside of glass very quickly. will corydoras kill the beneficial bacteria and harm the fish?

 

[edwliang]

The tiny white or tan worms crawling on the glass or swimming through the water are scavengers, not parasites. There might be parasites irritating his gills (protozoa, flukes, etc) but you wont see those swimming or crawling around the tank.

hi hi, do i need to get rid of the scavengers?

 

[sasikan]

i am surprise that your apisto doesn't eat them

 

[JasonC]

His dorsal looks like it is in bad shape... is there another fish in the tank possibly harassing him, or could that possibly be fin rot?

 

[edwliang]

His dorsal looks like it is in bad shape... is there another fish in the tank possibly harassing him, or could that possibly be fin rot?

It happened before I bought it,caused by changing water from habitat water to local water, the fins dissolved.

 

[edwliang]

but i can see the tail is growing longer now.

 

[uberape]

those little jumpy things are copepods and are usually stow aways from live dapnia bags. They are good for fry and smaller fish and harmless otherwise... my fish sometimes eat them in passing but don't waste any energy chasing them so they have reproduced into a small population in all my tanks.

 

[edwliang]

could it be that he is itching? external parasite? (nice plants)

i am surprise that your apisto doesn't eat them

i have had some of those very small white worms in my aquariums i added corydoras and they ate them all, i don't know if we have the same worms but it did work for me!

The tiny white or tan worms crawling on the glass or swimming through the water are scavengers, not parasites. There might be parasites irritating his gills (protozoa, flukes, etc) but you wont see those swimming or crawling around the tank.

captured it

 

[sasikan]

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captured it

yes those look like the same worms i had in some of my tanks but as soon as i introduced catfish they ate the worms

 

[gerald]

That's probably Nais or a related type of worm. Essentially like a tiny aquatic earthworm, it feeds on decaying matter and bacteria.