HELP. What is this

I have little tiny white worm looking things all over my aquarium glass I don't know what they are. Snail fry maybe. I never had them until I started having pond snails in my tank. They are extremely small and hard to see unless you kind if focus but there are like thousands of these guys. I don't know how to add pictures or I would

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Comment by Peter on February 9, 2014 at 1:07pm: Sounds like planaria.

Comment by Luke Kennedy on February 10, 2014 at 10:10am: sounds like your snails had a sickness

Comment by Robert Jango on February 10, 2014 at 10:23am: I think Peter's got it. Keeping a tank clean will cut down on them but they're harmless as far as I know. They may even serve as food - Sparkling Gouramis, Pearl Danios, and Neons eat them according to one site. Personally I've seen small Bettas feed on them. I've even seen Bettas eat leaches! Wouldn't be surprised if Paradise fish eat them too.

Comment by fogduck on February 16, 2014 at 1:53am: They're not a danger to fish but people say they can raise mortality rates in shrimplets (if you aren't breeding shrimp then obviously this isn't a problem). Planet Inverts had a good forum post about it that's way more thorough than I could be. http://www.planetinverts.com/killing_planaria_and_hydra.html

Comment by Robert Jango on February 16, 2014 at 3:56pm: Nice link fogduck. I've been using Prazipro to kill Hydra with limited success. I'll switch over to Fen-(whatever its called). But the article states Hydra - not Planaria - may kill shrimplets. I have little doubt this is true. They wiped out a whole batch of my new-born baby German Blue Rams.

Comment by fogduck on February 16, 2014 at 4:03pm: I used fenbendazole to get rid of planaria in one of my tanks. Shrimp breeding success spiked but I changed up their diet around the same time so I don't know what to attribute it to. The only problem I have with fenben is that it murders snails, which sucks when they're the kind you wanted to keep.