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HELP! Evil red bugs, or harmless planarians?


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Although theyre clearly not the same as those harmless opaque whitish species, i want to say that these are another type of harmless planaria that just appear now and then in a tank, but looking at pictures, they sure do look a lot like those nasty red bugs! Theres a good amount of them, at least on the glass, but they don’t seem to be swarming on/around, or hurting anything.

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Although theyre clearly not the same as those harmless opaque whitish species, i want to say that these are another type of harmless planaria that just appear now and then in a tank, but looking at pictures, they sure do look a lot like those nasty red bugs! Theres a good amount of them, at least on the glass, but they don’t seem to be swarming on/around, or hurting anything.
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Looks like planaria to me from the pictures.


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They don't really look like acro eating flatworms to me.  More like acoel flatworms which are harmless.  In my old tank there were a few spots with them that would kind of wax and wane.

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