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| Is there anything wrong with the fish? Not eating? Scratching? etc. There are plenty of other things in a good healthy fish tank, and most of them do not pose any problems to fish, as long as the water conditions are good and the fish are not stressed.
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| Scratching! Yes, they sometimes dive bomb the gravel and/or wood and scrape their sides when they do it. I can't see any thing physically on them or have noticed any change in their behavior besides this. They eat, swim, chase, etc as usual. My local fish store thought maybe hookworm or leech? He wasn't sure either by my description. But it was a 1-2" thread thin worm like, and its movement were like an eels and as quick. Maybe entirely unrelated to the fish scraping their sides?
JOHN CHAMPAGNE 55gallon/4wpg t05/pressurized Co2/moderately planted (with the intent of heavily planted) 10goldbarbs,10 olive nerite snails,6 ottos, 2 mollies,three guppies
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I doubt that you have hookworms or leeches in your tank. Leeches are nothing like your description, and hookworms generally live inside the body, and any free-swimming stages wouldn't look like worms.
The scraping along the sides, when not accompanied by other symptoms, is usually something I associate with gill flukes, actually. I'm treating my goldfish for that right now.
20 gallon long
Lionhead - Kiko
Calico Lionhead - Little Bean
29 gallon
Fantail - Oliver
Black Moor - Damian
Calico Ryukin - Serafina
2.5 gallon
male betta - Pirate
10 gallon planted
minnow, betta, guppy
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