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Tiny white slug-like creatures

akiso914

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Just a preface, theres nothing wrong with my lotl, just a pest question -

So I noticed these tiny things on the glass a couple months ago, and initially thought they were eggs - Schmidt lays eggs pretty frequently (she's alone in the tank) - but on closer inspection they were little wormy/slug like things crawling around on the glass. They're smaller than eggs, maybe a millimeter long, and they kinda stay together in a colony on the glass. They never seemed to bother her, or leave the glass, so i scraped them off periodically with an algae scraper. I just moved her tank, drained it and let the glass dry - and i don't see the little buggers anymore.... Does anyone know what they are and if they are a health concern to my lotl?
 

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Cleaning up uneaten food regularly as well as removing the white things by hand as they appear on the glass will help to keep their numbers in check.
 
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