Pet Fish & Aquarium Care Tips : How to Check Your Fish for Parasites

[ManTheBush]

@5canminator5 I hope you have a big aquarium 4 goldfish will need a 40 gallon, a general rule is 10 gallons per fish unless you are going to do daily water changes.

[toddwills]

OMG! Chris your hot :-) Can I have your number ? :-)

[mrflyfishingak]

never buy feeder fish(cheap gold fish you feed to other fish or get at carnavals) they are full of paracites

[mollygooch]

i have small white worms on the side of my tank could anyone tell me what they are or how to kill the fuckers

[ABCba5tard]

@mollygooch feed it to yo fish

[mollygooch]

@ABCba5tard you dont get it my fish are cichlids and gars they only eat goldfish

[jantait]

@mollygooch

i got the same, they are called planaria, or praneria, i cant remember, they usually pop up when theres a combination of too much substrate, and a bit too much left over food, they are harmless to your fish, but look gross! just cut back on their food for a few days and that shoul be the last of them, but they can and will come back, just reduce their food when they do, hope that helped!

[mollygooch]

@jantait thank you sooooo much for the comment i needed to know

[jantait]

@mollygooch

no probs man, happy to help!

[KevinNavarro1]

My fish is rubbing on the rocks

what can i do?

[stevenJEDI3]

@KevinNavarro1 try a salt Barth 3 tea spoons salt 10 liters water 20 minuets 

[123ilc45]

@KevinNavarro1 Then they probebly have ick cause i think thats one of the symptoms

[omiblingbling]

i got lotsa these even little white egg balls i can see them swimming around......weird..i had the tank for a while but neve rthis problem.

[Matthewdjf]

They look like white skinny swimming worms. They're gross.

[emman331]

I remember there were about 500 parastic worm in my aquarium

[zim93boy]

did u actually see them if so wat did they look like

[DaMan478]

@emman331 dude thats freaking disgusting. how did you handle that?