Uh Oh

[mr_X]

ok..no picture, but i bought a small piece of rubble with 5 mushrooms on it from "that fish place" in lancaster pa, this weekend. just got home from work, ad noticed 4 or 5 small flatworms on the mushrooms. they are brownish/reddish in color and moved fairly quickly when i tried to grab one with tweezers.
i'll try to snap a pic later, but i've already moved the rock to the QT tank, just incase these are detrimental.

does this description ring a bell for anyone?

 

[Anubis1]

I don't know if they are harmful or not.. a fresh water dip took care of the ones I had on a red mushroom a few months back... after the dip, I put the mushroom in the quarantine tank just to be on the safe side...

 

[mr_X]

here they are

 

[mr_X]

i picked one off..here's pics..

 

[mr_X]

i found this, for the people who are following this thread:
http://www.wetwebmedia.com/pestflatwrmanthony.htm

 

[Anubis1]

lol.. I was just going to tell you to do a search on red planaria... but it looks like you already found some info!

 

[mr_X]

wow!..that freshwater dip worked great! they all fell off in a half second! thanks.

 

[mr_X]

$6.99 for an assorted mushroom rock..i knew there was a catch!

 

[Anubis1]

only 6.99 for that?... dang! even with the planaria it's still a heck of a deal!

 

[Anonymous]

Yeah, I have those softie flatworms too. They don't seem to hurt anything unless they become numerous, but they are ugly. I do a fresh water dip occasionally to remove them.

 

[Anonymous]

Those worms are creepy but wow those shrooms are pretty