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I'm sitting in the garden with a piece of manzi and a tuperware box with some bogwood which has moss attached to it. Have been trimming bits of moss off the bogwood and attaching to the manzi. The bogwood has been sitting in my tank for a couple of weeks now.
I notice that some tiny shrimplets have got in there. Then I notice something else. Really tiny little critters, look like minute transparent beetles scurrying about in the bottom of the box. About an hour later the beetle things are gone and have been replaced with huge bloody nematodes. Bigger than anything I've seen in a tank and pink/purple. Almost certainly planaria (diamond shaped heads).
After removing shrimplets I slapped in a fat dose of panacur leaving the bogwood in there. 4 hours later almost all worms gone but a couple still moving around. Have thrown in an even bigger dose and am leaving 24 hours to check later.
Question is how the hell did that happen? As I said the bogwood has been in my main tank but no sign of planaria in there. Also I happen to know that it was treated for bugglies before I bought it.
Despite all that were the planaria hiding in some bit of the bogwood? Was there something about adding tapwater and taking it outside that activated them? What about the little beetle things? Did they really transform into worms 10-20 times their size in the space of an hour? Or were they coincidental?
Or did the planaria get in through the air somehow? Nothing came in contact with that tuperware box but a clean pair on nail scissors and my hands.
Am now paranoid that I've introduced the things into my tank on the moss that I've put in there.
I'm sitting in the garden with a piece of manzi and a tuperware box with some bogwood which has moss attached to it. Have been trimming bits of moss off the bogwood and attaching to the manzi. The bogwood has been sitting in my tank for a couple of weeks now.
I notice that some tiny shrimplets have got in there. Then I notice something else. Really tiny little critters, look like minute transparent beetles scurrying about in the bottom of the box. About an hour later the beetle things are gone and have been replaced with huge bloody nematodes. Bigger than anything I've seen in a tank and pink/purple. Almost certainly planaria (diamond shaped heads).
After removing shrimplets I slapped in a fat dose of panacur leaving the bogwood in there. 4 hours later almost all worms gone but a couple still moving around. Have thrown in an even bigger dose and am leaving 24 hours to check later.
Question is how the hell did that happen? As I said the bogwood has been in my main tank but no sign of planaria in there. Also I happen to know that it was treated for bugglies before I bought it.
Despite all that were the planaria hiding in some bit of the bogwood? Was there something about adding tapwater and taking it outside that activated them? What about the little beetle things? Did they really transform into worms 10-20 times their size in the space of an hour? Or were they coincidental?
Or did the planaria get in through the air somehow? Nothing came in contact with that tuperware box but a clean pair on nail scissors and my hands.
Am now paranoid that I've introduced the things into my tank on the moss that I've put in there.