r/DartFrog • u/JaaGasaki • 3d ago

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Hi, I found these in my bioactive terrarium with *Dendrobates*; do you know what they might be?

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u/Sinjitoma 3d ago

They are Planaria. They don’t technically pose a threat. But I’m planning to starve out the ones I have soon by move the frogs and not putting new clean up crew in until they are gone.

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u/Saac_Nelly 3d ago

Not an expert, but I recall watching a video from Tropical Tutorials (I think) where he mentioned having something like these and they're mainly just annoying. iirc he said the population got really large then evened out after a while and that there's not really a good way to get rid of them.

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u/Dependent-Range-4654 3d ago

I saw this once in a tank I had years ago I was worried it might be some kind of parasite but another friend told me they were harmless to the frogs but could be annoying if their population exploded…..and then I saw a frog slurp one off the glass a couple days later and I went “I guess they are now free frog food” and I stopped worrying about it. Their population never exploded….it was all in balance and what I like to call a self cleaning oven.

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u/Hour-Firefighter-724 3d ago

If you're plants start wilting, remove them. They cause ammonia and CO2 issues.

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u/leekypotato69 3d ago

Just little earth worms, perfectly fine on a successful bioactive setup

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u/KAOSGT-R 3d ago

Those aren't earthworms. They're predatory flatworms that eat springtails and fruit flies.

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u/ephemeralhyped 3d ago

Ive found that you can lower there numbers by baiting them with cucumber and pepper. But they’re an ugly nuisance

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u/KAOSGT-R 2d ago

I rip the plants out and throw them away and submerge the tank in a bin with hot soapy water. It's the only way that has worked for me to get rid of them completely.

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u/Thick-Mud2475 1h ago

They're some type of predatory worm (Rhynchodemus sylvaticus maybe) that feeds on fruitflies and other bugs. I have them too even tho I sterilized stuff. I wake up during the night to wipe em off the glass, pretty disgusting but in a way..it's fine that they eat the old fruitflies that lose their dust. They hunt mainly at night from what I saw