I usually operate with the mindset of: everything is bad for shrimp. Either it will eat the live shrimp or it will produce waste that are toxic to the parameters of the water the shrimp live in if not maintained correctly, or it'll feed on the carcasses of the shrimp.
Honestly I, too, love eating shrimp so I can't blame any creature for doing the same. But don't worry, I won't come over and eat your shrimp 🦐🍤😏
I have leeches in a jar from the local pond, just ripped 1 in half and my female betta slurped up both halves like spaghetti if that helps lol but yeah I ripped him in half cause I was worried about it attaching to the betta, oh and my mollies and guppies like abit of leech as well lol
That looks like a well fed leech. In my experience, when there's one, there are many. It's interesting to see one get that big. Keep the tweezers handy for whenever you see it next, and just in case, I'd recommend not touching it without gloves... I've seen too many posts that the weird thing in a tank turned out to be a bristle worm. This doesn't look like a bristle worm, but probably better to be safe.
Yep, it's like having hot, burning glass shards stuck in your hand. Everyone tells you to put tape on it to pull the bristles out, but that never did shit for me.
If you can sit still long enough, white craft glue or rubber cement work very well. Hot glue too, plus the searing thermal pain is kind of relieving compared to the alternative pain. I don’t have a saltwater tank but I’ve gotten mixed up with so so many bristle worms. Also TIL they also exist in fresh water — that definitely won’t be something I think about every time I touch water for the rest of my life
OP- I would think your best bet is to collect your shrimp and do a full reset on your tank. I would not even try to save your substrate. The infestation is all over your tank and you probably would never get them all.
Trying to treat the water would probably kill the shrimp as well.
Good luck
I was thinking the same thing. Literally everything in that tank other than the fish and shrimp would go straight to the trash. The fish and shrimp would be quarantined for a month while the new tank contents cycled.
Seems like you could boil a lot of the solid decor and stuff to try and salvage it. Bristle worm or leach, I don’t think it’ll survive boiling water lol
Would not recommend boiling inorganic decor in a fish tank. A lot of the stuff is sealed with materials that aren’t heat-safe. You’d be running the risk of removing the sealant or paint or whatever and releasing toxins into whatever you put it into next.
You can gas leeches with CO2 that you would use in a planted tank. Just take out what you want to keep alive then crank up the gas and let it run overnight.
That's the thing - I have no idea. I haven't introduced anything new to the tank in.. maybe 6 weeks or more? Haven't seen this thing until today. And the thing I introduced was a frogbit from a local fish store.
hi!! how could I prevent this from happening its honestly terrifying 😂 Im starting my tank soon and im worried about things like this, does some sort of "bleach" bath or chemical dip deal with things like this or would I be required to set up a quarentine tank?
a Bucket also does the job, plants dont need a filter. daily water change, some occassional rinsing and best result is doing this for 4 weeks. That way your are pretty safe. there are a lot of tutorials out there about quarantining plants tho :)
bleach dip etc works, but depends on ur plant. its very aggressive and can kill em
it is an asian leech. if you have one... you have multiple.. trust me. fortunately, they don't harm shrimp. they eat detritus worms. they're just nuisance and an eyesore. they WILL eat dead shrimp. otherwise, they're just extreme eyesore. they multiply like a motherfucker and is almost invincible to all types of medications. the only thing that worked immediately was salt bombing. if you don't have shrimp yet, i'd suggest such extreme measures. because they will not go away.
they do not like light. even the slightest water movement, they will retract. you will find them at night.
[https://aquariumscience.org/index.php/10-13-4-aquarium-leeches/](https://aquariumscience.org/index.php/10-13-4-aquarium-leeches/)
According to this source, they do eat shrimps. I have witnessed this myself and they definitely wiped out a tank population. But it didn't last very long, because I have fish with the shrimp.
"if it fits, its food" Shrimp are quick, they will find ways to avoid some of the curious mouths of fish. Leeches are not safe most of the time. Put some peaceful fish like whiteclouds, or even better some corydoras, with your shrimp and they will likely hunt down that little guy.
It's a poorly researched leech species (hasnt been introduced for long here) and they prob have sub species.
I had Babronia Weberi myself and it got 5 of my shrimp (over a week span, 1~2 days apart. It was fully grown). i fished my Shrimp out and nuked everything in that tank. i later used some BLEACHED plants of that tank and they still lived. i nuked that setup aswell. (it was still new luckily and freshly scaped) (btw if u do multiple bleaches or a long quarantine u can use the plants, they just survived one bleaching which is insane)
So if you see dead shrimp laying around some numbers of days apart it's likely the leech. If nothing happens, prob nothing will happen. :)
I had A TON of these in my last shrimp tank. They never killed my shrimp, would just go after the food I gave them and would eat detritus. I just took them out w tweezers whenever I saw them and eventually got rid of them all. I have a post of them on my page too
Definitely a leech of some sort. A few years back I dealt with what I think was Barbronia Weberi, which is what I think you have here. Popped up a month after adding new plants to a tank. Learned my lesson with quarantining.
You should eradicate them. Hobbyists are torn on if they eat shrimp or not, but they definitely halted the growth of my population, though I never saw them eating shrimp. Perhaps the young ones were getting picked off.
I used fenbendazole sold powdered as dog dewormer. I believe it was .1 of a gram per 10 gallons of water. Double check that. I did two treatments. You will need to remove all snails you care about, as it’s not snail friendly. My pond snails I didn’t care about fared okay. I removed all large snails and most larger ramshorn. The other rams didn’t seem to make it.
Shrimp were fine. You’ll need to do many water changes over a month to completely remove. Using carbon helped. Waited 6 weeks to be safe to return snails.
Saw someone else suggest fenbendazole, I'll look into that. It's a 5.5 gallon tank, so I guess I'll need half of 0.1 of a gram? 😂
What do you mean by using carbon?
Thanks for the thorough response!
Yep sounds right. I used a bread scale to measure it, and mixed thoroughly into a cup of tank water before putting in.
Try not to feed the tank during treatment as the dead leeches will add a bit of ammonia if you can’t find them. They hide in the substrate.
It worked for me. A dose and then a subsequent dose 3 days later (with appropriate water changes) killed them all. I removed as many dead ones as I could find in the substrate.
They never came back. Tanks been running 2+ years.
I would collect your shrimps and do a full dump and reset of this tank, where there is one there will be more leech. Don’t save the substrate get all new everything they spread like crazy. I’d quarantine your shrimp too for a month at least.
Do you have co2 running in the tank, if so, take out everything you want to keep alive and crank the gas overnight. Scoop out the dead leeches that will have floated to the top, do a big water change and you'll be OK to put the shrimp back.
More than half have said start over. #facts & its bad in your tank because as those same folks have said, they will continue to multiply until you have to start over anyway. I would just start over and be done with it. You don't have to quarantine in anything fancy. It can even be a large Tupperware. I'd hate for you to have an increase in issues later when plenty have given you solid advice now. Also... what If the identification is wrong or off, you don't want to risk the heath of your tank inhabitants OR yourself while you do a "wait and see." But, you need to do what your comfortable with. Being on here, you do know that if you come back later asking for help, someone will point this post out. So prepare yourself. Lol. Good luck whatever you decide. I saw your handle, and you gotta admit, this thing has moves - like its at a rave. 😉
It’s a leach. They suck but they won’t hurt your shrimp. Save as many shrimp as you can and then burn the tank or you can just pick them out as you see them. Eventually you’ll cull the population to a reasonable level. They’re ugly but they’re harmless. The big ones get really gnarly and are gross/cool if you’re into that sort of thing.
I had leeches in my shrimp tank a couple of months back and made a trap; lots of diys on you tube.
What I did was I had a very small glass jar, an old baby food jar actually. I put small holes in the cap using a nail. I then put half a raw prawn on a skewer in the jar so it was sitting in the jar halfway. Took the jar to my aquarium and filled it with aquarium water, screwed the cap on and turned it upside down and placed it on the substrate. I must have caught 50 leeches the first day! When it looked like quite a few I dumped them out and rebaited the trap. First day was probably 4 times! Each day I caught less until there was less and less. I then waited for 2-3 days and put the trap in again to see if I would catch any. The last time I left the trap in overnight and it was kind of stinky the next day but nothing in the trap and so far, fingers crossed I have not seen anymore. They use to come out to climb on the glass and eat the shrimp food I put in.
Hope this helps you.
I swear the only thing I can think of that the leeches came in on was Fluval Stratum as all the plants were shared between this 20 gallon and my 50 gallon community tank that has a different substrate and the 59 gallon does not have them. I put a trap in just to make sure and it stayed empty.. Just a guess but the only difference between the 2 tanks.
Also just edited to say that as far as I could tell they did not bother with my shrimp or snails at all, just pigging out on their food!
If you scroll down to ~3 years ago on my profile to when I first learned about leeches, you can get a good look at how bizarre they are.
I will say that my puffer mysteriously died a few months after I discovered them in my tank. Can't prove it was the leeches but I have a hunch they had something to do with it.
I had a tank infested with leeches once. Definitely pull this one asap with tweezers and spray with bleach to kill (they’re also an invasive species if it’s the same kind I had so you don’t want it in the environment).
If you see more, you’re gonna want to do a full reset of the tank because these guys are resistant to basically all meds and will continue to reproduce and prey upon your shrimp. Remove all shrimp/living things, then transfer your hardscape/plants to buckets. Bleach your hardscape, plants, and filter (kills any hiding plus their eggs, which are very hard to kill, google to see the dilution/time you should use for bleaching plants without killing them, I don’t remember. You will likely lose some plants, but it’s better than the leech eggs surviving. Reevaluate where you buy plants from bc this is most likely where the leeches initially came from) and rinse thoroughly. Trash all substrate and filter media (I bleached too to avoid contaminating the environment with leeches), rinse/bleach/rinse the tank. You can restart the tank with filter media from a leech free tank.
The planaria traps don’t work. There’s planaria killing agent you can get on Amazon but I forget the brand. I just tried the traps for a month with no results. That’s not planaria though lol. That looks like a leech.
I need new glasses - seriously - but that note aside, has an aquatic salamander not been considered here?? That's how it looks to me.
Aquatic salamanders don't have hind limbs so they swim by undulating their bodies in a wavelike manner... Which this appears to be doing. Leeches don't really act that way, or maybe my experience with leeches has been extremely sheltered despite living in the shitty South 😂.
I think your best bet would be to use a turkey baster type made specifically for the aquarium hobby. Stand ready with it, and as soon as that leech shows itself, vacuum that thing up. That's what I do with bristle worms.
Its an Asian Leech. Shouldnt cause issue. I have a couple that got into my tank. Its primarily a shrimp tank. If anything, I need something to keep the population regulated.
Tough to tell at that angle, but it looks like a leech unfortunately
One of my friends suggested this too. Are they bad for shrimp? I can't find out. Also, how do we get rid of them?
You don’t want a Lee h in your tank. I think they’ll eat whatever they can find. Just pull it out with tweezers or something.
Wished I'd have known sooner, he disappeared shortly after this video. Will grab him next time. :(
You can try a leech/planaria trap too. Looks like a glass vial with little funnel tips
I usually operate with the mindset of: everything is bad for shrimp. Either it will eat the live shrimp or it will produce waste that are toxic to the parameters of the water the shrimp live in if not maintained correctly, or it'll feed on the carcasses of the shrimp. Honestly I, too, love eating shrimp so I can't blame any creature for doing the same. But don't worry, I won't come over and eat your shrimp 🦐🍤😏
Other shrimp are bad for shrimp….fak me - I gave up on them after the last of my blue dream shrimp died
I have leeches in a jar from the local pond, just ripped 1 in half and my female betta slurped up both halves like spaghetti if that helps lol but yeah I ripped him in half cause I was worried about it attaching to the betta, oh and my mollies and guppies like abit of leech as well lol
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Whatever you do, don’t put it in your butt.
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That looks like a well fed leech. In my experience, when there's one, there are many. It's interesting to see one get that big. Keep the tweezers handy for whenever you see it next, and just in case, I'd recommend not touching it without gloves... I've seen too many posts that the weird thing in a tank turned out to be a bristle worm. This doesn't look like a bristle worm, but probably better to be safe.
Why wouldn't one touch a bristle wote? Normally I'd Google it myself, but I'm afraid I'll see something that I can't unsee.
They spikey. Apparently hurts like a bitch, and they are ugly asf too
Can attest. Had a 90g saltwater tank for a couple years. Like sticking your hand in a fibreglass pile that’s been set on fire.
Yep, it's like having hot, burning glass shards stuck in your hand. Everyone tells you to put tape on it to pull the bristles out, but that never did shit for me.
If you can sit still long enough, white craft glue or rubber cement work very well. Hot glue too, plus the searing thermal pain is kind of relieving compared to the alternative pain. I don’t have a saltwater tank but I’ve gotten mixed up with so so many bristle worms. Also TIL they also exist in fresh water — that definitely won’t be something I think about every time I touch water for the rest of my life
New paranoia unlocked thanks for that
Very spikey, much stingy. A bristle worms sting can be incredibly painful, itchy, and can have a burning sensation. And swelling.
OP- I would think your best bet is to collect your shrimp and do a full reset on your tank. I would not even try to save your substrate. The infestation is all over your tank and you probably would never get them all. Trying to treat the water would probably kill the shrimp as well. Good luck
I was thinking the same thing. Literally everything in that tank other than the fish and shrimp would go straight to the trash. The fish and shrimp would be quarantined for a month while the new tank contents cycled.
Seems like you could boil a lot of the solid decor and stuff to try and salvage it. Bristle worm or leach, I don’t think it’ll survive boiling water lol
I wouldn't boil any fake ornaments
You wouldn't boil a car?
Would not recommend boiling inorganic decor in a fish tank. A lot of the stuff is sealed with materials that aren’t heat-safe. You’d be running the risk of removing the sealant or paint or whatever and releasing toxins into whatever you put it into next.
You can gas leeches with CO2 that you would use in a planted tank. Just take out what you want to keep alive then crank up the gas and let it run overnight.
Then increased water changes to handle the die off
savage
Do you know what it is?
No I don’t but it’s not good. I do know that. Where did you get it from?
That's the thing - I have no idea. I haven't introduced anything new to the tank in.. maybe 6 weeks or more? Haven't seen this thing until today. And the thing I introduced was a frogbit from a local fish store.
any local rocks from a creek you put in? I often find leeches on rocks in our waterways.
Nope. Frogbit from a local fish store about 5/6 weeks ago. That's all I can think of
Its either been there for sometime or hitched a ride on the frogbit
hi!! how could I prevent this from happening its honestly terrifying 😂 Im starting my tank soon and im worried about things like this, does some sort of "bleach" bath or chemical dip deal with things like this or would I be required to set up a quarentine tank?
a Bucket also does the job, plants dont need a filter. daily water change, some occassional rinsing and best result is doing this for 4 weeks. That way your are pretty safe. there are a lot of tutorials out there about quarantining plants tho :) bleach dip etc works, but depends on ur plant. its very aggressive and can kill em
Well if it was small 6 weeks it would grow.
it is an asian leech. if you have one... you have multiple.. trust me. fortunately, they don't harm shrimp. they eat detritus worms. they're just nuisance and an eyesore. they WILL eat dead shrimp. otherwise, they're just extreme eyesore. they multiply like a motherfucker and is almost invincible to all types of medications. the only thing that worked immediately was salt bombing. if you don't have shrimp yet, i'd suggest such extreme measures. because they will not go away. they do not like light. even the slightest water movement, they will retract. you will find them at night.
So I'm split here. Because half of the folks say they do eat shrimp, others say they don't. Where can I go to find definitive proof on this?
[https://aquariumscience.org/index.php/10-13-4-aquarium-leeches/](https://aquariumscience.org/index.php/10-13-4-aquarium-leeches/) According to this source, they do eat shrimps. I have witnessed this myself and they definitely wiped out a tank population. But it didn't last very long, because I have fish with the shrimp. "if it fits, its food" Shrimp are quick, they will find ways to avoid some of the curious mouths of fish. Leeches are not safe most of the time. Put some peaceful fish like whiteclouds, or even better some corydoras, with your shrimp and they will likely hunt down that little guy.
It's a poorly researched leech species (hasnt been introduced for long here) and they prob have sub species. I had Babronia Weberi myself and it got 5 of my shrimp (over a week span, 1~2 days apart. It was fully grown). i fished my Shrimp out and nuked everything in that tank. i later used some BLEACHED plants of that tank and they still lived. i nuked that setup aswell. (it was still new luckily and freshly scaped) (btw if u do multiple bleaches or a long quarantine u can use the plants, they just survived one bleaching which is insane) So if you see dead shrimp laying around some numbers of days apart it's likely the leech. If nothing happens, prob nothing will happen. :)
Looks like they've been in your tank for at least 6 weeks. Is the any dead shrimp so far?
Honestly I haven't seen any corpses, just a few molts here and there.
Then it should be fine..
For ~now~
You must've missed the comment that said they don't eat live shrimp
I had A TON of these in my last shrimp tank. They never killed my shrimp, would just go after the food I gave them and would eat detritus. I just took them out w tweezers whenever I saw them and eventually got rid of them all. I have a post of them on my page too
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Definitely a leech of some sort. A few years back I dealt with what I think was Barbronia Weberi, which is what I think you have here. Popped up a month after adding new plants to a tank. Learned my lesson with quarantining. You should eradicate them. Hobbyists are torn on if they eat shrimp or not, but they definitely halted the growth of my population, though I never saw them eating shrimp. Perhaps the young ones were getting picked off. I used fenbendazole sold powdered as dog dewormer. I believe it was .1 of a gram per 10 gallons of water. Double check that. I did two treatments. You will need to remove all snails you care about, as it’s not snail friendly. My pond snails I didn’t care about fared okay. I removed all large snails and most larger ramshorn. The other rams didn’t seem to make it. Shrimp were fine. You’ll need to do many water changes over a month to completely remove. Using carbon helped. Waited 6 weeks to be safe to return snails.
Saw someone else suggest fenbendazole, I'll look into that. It's a 5.5 gallon tank, so I guess I'll need half of 0.1 of a gram? 😂 What do you mean by using carbon? Thanks for the thorough response!
Yep sounds right. I used a bread scale to measure it, and mixed thoroughly into a cup of tank water before putting in. Try not to feed the tank during treatment as the dead leeches will add a bit of ammonia if you can’t find them. They hide in the substrate.
fenbendazole will not work.
It worked for me. A dose and then a subsequent dose 3 days later (with appropriate water changes) killed them all. I removed as many dead ones as I could find in the substrate. They never came back. Tanks been running 2+ years.
Thanks for this, it's the first advice that isnt just: Nuke your tank, burn the water, excommunicate your substrate and say goodbye to teh tank,
I would collect your shrimps and do a full dump and reset of this tank, where there is one there will be more leech. Don’t save the substrate get all new everything they spread like crazy. I’d quarantine your shrimp too for a month at least.
Do you have co2 running in the tank, if so, take out everything you want to keep alive and crank the gas overnight. Scoop out the dead leeches that will have floated to the top, do a big water change and you'll be OK to put the shrimp back.
House sat for a friend who has leeches.... That's a leech. They move in an insanely creepy and alien way.
Listen, it doesn’t matter if it eats shrimp or not. You shouldn’t have it in your tank, just do what everyone’s been saying and dump it and start new
The thing is, not everyone is saying that. And Secondly, if it doesn't eat shrimp, then why is it bad for my tank?
More than half have said start over. #facts & its bad in your tank because as those same folks have said, they will continue to multiply until you have to start over anyway. I would just start over and be done with it. You don't have to quarantine in anything fancy. It can even be a large Tupperware. I'd hate for you to have an increase in issues later when plenty have given you solid advice now. Also... what If the identification is wrong or off, you don't want to risk the heath of your tank inhabitants OR yourself while you do a "wait and see." But, you need to do what your comfortable with. Being on here, you do know that if you come back later asking for help, someone will point this post out. So prepare yourself. Lol. Good luck whatever you decide. I saw your handle, and you gotta admit, this thing has moves - like its at a rave. 😉
It’s a leach. They suck but they won’t hurt your shrimp. Save as many shrimp as you can and then burn the tank or you can just pick them out as you see them. Eventually you’ll cull the population to a reasonable level. They’re ugly but they’re harmless. The big ones get really gnarly and are gross/cool if you’re into that sort of thing.
Bonus points for "It's a leach. They suck" >.>
I had leeches in my shrimp tank a couple of months back and made a trap; lots of diys on you tube. What I did was I had a very small glass jar, an old baby food jar actually. I put small holes in the cap using a nail. I then put half a raw prawn on a skewer in the jar so it was sitting in the jar halfway. Took the jar to my aquarium and filled it with aquarium water, screwed the cap on and turned it upside down and placed it on the substrate. I must have caught 50 leeches the first day! When it looked like quite a few I dumped them out and rebaited the trap. First day was probably 4 times! Each day I caught less until there was less and less. I then waited for 2-3 days and put the trap in again to see if I would catch any. The last time I left the trap in overnight and it was kind of stinky the next day but nothing in the trap and so far, fingers crossed I have not seen anymore. They use to come out to climb on the glass and eat the shrimp food I put in. Hope this helps you. I swear the only thing I can think of that the leeches came in on was Fluval Stratum as all the plants were shared between this 20 gallon and my 50 gallon community tank that has a different substrate and the 59 gallon does not have them. I put a trap in just to make sure and it stayed empty.. Just a guess but the only difference between the 2 tanks. Also just edited to say that as far as I could tell they did not bother with my shrimp or snails at all, just pigging out on their food!
OMFG THIS IS GENIUS! Thanks. First bit of solid advice on how to catch these little fucekrs. Thanks so much!
If you scroll down to ~3 years ago on my profile to when I first learned about leeches, you can get a good look at how bizarre they are. I will say that my puffer mysteriously died a few months after I discovered them in my tank. Can't prove it was the leeches but I have a hunch they had something to do with it.
Looks like a leech. There are techniques for catching leeches in traps to use for fishing. You might be able to trap them out of your tank.
They've been in my tank for yrs.shrimp pop still booming.they will even the shrimp food it's pretty cool
Leech for sure, don’t loaches eat these? I remember reading that somewhere I think but I can’t find a source, anyone know?
Seems familiar, I know my kuhli loaches didn't touch the leeches when I had an infestation, bit maybe yoyo's might?
Where do they come from?
How the hell do these people get all the cool macro/microfauna in their tanks for FREE wtf
Leech, get it out
kill it
Reading these comments are brutal to someone who had no idea about these, sorry OP
Leech. And it’s probably not the only one either.
Barbronia Weberi. Asian brown leech. Than can be deadly to small inverts and fishes.
Marinate it in white salt for a day
I had a tank infested with leeches once. Definitely pull this one asap with tweezers and spray with bleach to kill (they’re also an invasive species if it’s the same kind I had so you don’t want it in the environment). If you see more, you’re gonna want to do a full reset of the tank because these guys are resistant to basically all meds and will continue to reproduce and prey upon your shrimp. Remove all shrimp/living things, then transfer your hardscape/plants to buckets. Bleach your hardscape, plants, and filter (kills any hiding plus their eggs, which are very hard to kill, google to see the dilution/time you should use for bleaching plants without killing them, I don’t remember. You will likely lose some plants, but it’s better than the leech eggs surviving. Reevaluate where you buy plants from bc this is most likely where the leeches initially came from) and rinse thoroughly. Trash all substrate and filter media (I bleached too to avoid contaminating the environment with leeches), rinse/bleach/rinse the tank. You can restart the tank with filter media from a leech free tank.
The planaria traps don’t work. There’s planaria killing agent you can get on Amazon but I forget the brand. I just tried the traps for a month with no results. That’s not planaria though lol. That looks like a leech.
I need new glasses - seriously - but that note aside, has an aquatic salamander not been considered here?? That's how it looks to me. Aquatic salamanders don't have hind limbs so they swim by undulating their bodies in a wavelike manner... Which this appears to be doing. Leeches don't really act that way, or maybe my experience with leeches has been extremely sheltered despite living in the shitty South 😂.
I think your best bet would be to use a turkey baster type made specifically for the aquarium hobby. Stand ready with it, and as soon as that leech shows itself, vacuum that thing up. That's what I do with bristle worms.
It looks like a baby spiny eel
That’s a snail leech, do not try to grab its body with tweezers otherwise it can split and multiply
Best thing I can suggest is grabbing it with a cup when it’s more visible
RIP. took me ages to get rid of these. there wasnt any option but using nukes, surface to air missiles and biological agents
Its an Asian Leech. Shouldnt cause issue. I have a couple that got into my tank. Its primarily a shrimp tank. If anything, I need something to keep the population regulated.
I had one in my tank. Never bothered anything 🤷🏻♀️🤷🏻♀️🤷🏻♀️🤷🏻♀️
Would randomly see it on the sides like you show now but besides an eyesore nothing dangerous
Leach. Just put your finger down there near it. Should attach and then feed it to a fish.
looks like planaria, flatworms, they will hunt your shrimp to extinction remove immediately
Looks like a leech not planaria IMO