Aug 15, 2024 · Find out how to identify and eliminate planaria from your aquarium. Learn effective methods to keep your tank clean and pest-free!

Mar 5, 2025 · A planarian worm (planaria is the plural form) is a flatworm. Contrary to popular belief, it’s not strictly parasitic. It indeed exhibits parasitic behavior, but these little guys can survive on their own in your fish tank.

Planaria (or Planarian as a singular form) are not rare guests in aquariums. They usually appear when you overfeed your inhabitants leaving too much-unfinished food in your tank. When it happens these flatworms start to reproduce very quickly.

Oct 8, 2024 · Planaria worms feed on meat and may actively hunt for prey if there’s not enough leftover food in your aquarium. Freshwater snails, baby shrimp, and even adult molting shrimp may all fall prey to these carnivorous worms. Planaria also feast on the eggs of shrimp and snails.

Planaria worms are carnivorous and mostly feed on small shrimp, insects like water fleas, and other types of worms. In home aquariums, they will feast on decaying fish or invertebrates, as well as uneaten fish food.

Jun 10, 2013 · Planaria flatworm adults, winter eggs and baby hatchling flatworms. Video shows winter eggs before and after hatching, the adult flatworms that laid the eggs and the baby planaria that...

Are Planaria Harmful to Shrimp? To put it bluntly, if shrimp were to have an arch-enemy, it would most likely be a planarian flatworm. Nothing will curb a planarian’s appetite for tasty baby shrimp. Planaria also eat shrimp eggs like there’s no tomorrow.

Nov 11, 2022 · Planaria can be a problem in fish tanks, but if there aren’t too many of them and you don’t want to use chemicals or clean up dead worms, you can set up a Planaria trap instead. You can easily find these traps in aquariums or on online shopping sites.

Oct 7, 2022 · Discover how to identify and treat planaria in aquariums. Learn why these flatworms are harmful to shrimp and snails

Dec 22, 2023 · Today I noticed the tiniest hair thin guys on the glass and I know there's good worms and bad ones but I've only seen pictures of big Planaria before. I think this one has a pointy head but I'm not 100% sure, what do you guys say?