Snjchris Posted October 27, 2022 Share Posted October 27, 2022 Hello fellow Nerms, Can you help me identify these pink clumps growing out of my gravel substrate? My puffer and super red plecos don't care for them. I don't feed BBS or other microscopic foods in this tank. I feed a lot of pleco pellets, repashy and frozen foods (daphnia/bloodworms) daily. Water gets changed daily or every other day. Other tank inhabitants include ramshorn snails and cherry shrimp. These things grow in clumps. When I gravel vac, they didn't like to be sucked out and died quickly (color changed very quickly to this yellow, dirt color). This is a freshwater tank. Thank you in advance! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colu Posted October 27, 2022 Share Posted October 27, 2022 Looks like tubiflex worms to me 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveO Posted October 27, 2022 Share Posted October 27, 2022 Looks like a fungal bloom to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chick-In-Of-TheSea Posted October 27, 2022 Share Posted October 27, 2022 Ummm... hydra? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guppysnail Posted October 27, 2022 Share Posted October 27, 2022 I’m with @Colu tubifex or some type of detritus worm. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snjchris Posted October 27, 2022 Author Share Posted October 27, 2022 Thank you all for your input! Siphoning does kill them so I'll keep on trying that option. So far, they don't seem to harm the inhabitants. Fingers 🤞 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlueLineAquaticsSC Posted October 27, 2022 Share Posted October 27, 2022 My first thought was also some sort of detritus worm, which as far as I know are usually more beneficial for a tank than harmful, as they provide food for fish and help break down waste. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snjchris Posted October 27, 2022 Author Share Posted October 27, 2022 On 10/27/2022 at 11:55 AM, BlueLineAquaticsSC said: My first thought was also some sort of detritus worm, which as far as I know are usually more beneficial for a tank than harmful, as they provide food for fish and help break down waste. I am hoping they are worms too but so far I haven't seem the baby puffers take a bite at them. I will look into fungus bloom just out of precaution. I do have the normal kind of detritus worms in my tank. These don't move and grow out from a clump down from the substrate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nabokovfan87 Posted October 27, 2022 Share Posted October 27, 2022 worms........ 😞 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Odd Duck Posted October 28, 2022 Share Posted October 28, 2022 Looks like some kind of detritus worms - tubifex, blackworms, other un-named worm. Looks like clean up crew and fish food, to me. Doesn’t look anything like a fungus to me but it would be interesting to get under the microscope. Do they retract if touched? If yes, worms, not fungus. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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