@no: "I have a tank that is exclusively for mollies, except for 2 striped talking 
cat fish.
The fish all seem well and healthy but I've noticed these little wrigglies 
in the tank.
It's impossible to take a photo as they are only a maximum of 2mm long so 
I've done my best to do a drawing. their colour is white and they seem to 
stick mainly to the glass or rocks, they're not really free swimming. They 
look a little like octopus or squid but have lots of long thin hair like 
"strings" for want of a better word at their back end. (At least I assume 
it's their back end).
The fish don't seem remotely interested in them,, either as food or anything 
else.
The fish are mainly fed on flake and frozen but once a week or so they get 
live bloodworm, occasionally brine shrimp and very very occasionally 
daphnia.
Can anyone give me an idea what they could be so maybe I could look them up 
to check and see if they're likely to harm the fish.
My little drawing is here:
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    @computeralias: ""Sandi" <email_address> wrote in message 
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Wrigglies are usually some member of nemotodia, like planaria.  From your 
picture, I would research the Coelenterata phylum, particularly Hydra 
(americana, vulgaris etc) or Chlorohydra (viridissima..).  Drop one of 
your gouramis in there for a week ;~), they usually like em.
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    @no: "<quote>
Mmm - there isn't anything that's EXACTLY the same in those but Hydra
vulgaris is the closest.
Tend to be of the mind that "if it ain't broke etc etc" but will leaving
them to sort themselves out harm the fish?
Not keen on swapping gouramis over - mollies are in salted water and my 
gouramis aren't used to that."
    @computeralias: ""Sandi" <email_address> wrote in message 
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Until sorted, fry, fish eggs and micro-organisms might be at risk (not 
that you have too much to worry about with livebearers and their large 
fry).  I would reduce the feeding (entirely for 4-5 days) to see if that 
doesn't put things in order.  This might interrupt the creature's food 
supply, and draw their attention to the Mollies.
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    @no: ""NetMax" <email_address> wrote in message 
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aaaaah! not feed my babies for 5 days?? when they all come up to see me as 
soon as the lights go on???
Oh well, thanks, I'll give it a go but I bet they never speak to me again 
(especially the talking catfish ;) "
    @nobody: ""Sandi" <email_address> wrote in message 
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Just to follow this up, I got a couple of snakeskin gouramis and all the 
wrigglies seem to be gone :-) "
    @RonCliborn: "How do you do the Brine Shrimp?
I can hatch them, but they are so small, nothing seems to find them.
Can you fatten them up?
How do you filter them?  I tried a coffee filter but I got a lot of
the eggs too.  Can you point me to a web site you have used??
Sorry to be of no help to your question.  Perhaps you can find
something that will eat it.
Ronin
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