> Hello, I have a little problem. It is a lot of white little
 > worms in my turtle tank. They are about 1-2mm long. What
 > causes this?
Well, I'm sorry I don't know much about these worms, but I will tell you 
is:
I once had a terrerium in a 30 gallon (long) tank....it had soil, and 
plants...and a pool of water on one side with a huge peice of drift wood 
sticking out. I had spanish moss hanging from the wood, and I also took some 
plastic aquarium plants that were colorful yet natural looking and stuch them 
into some small holes in the wood, and it made a hanging garden effect. In 
the tank I had Live crickets, A large Tiger Salamander that I caught in the 
wild. A large toad from the pet store, a leopard frog from the pet store, a 
green tree frog (the kind with the suction-cup like hands) and in the pool of 
water I had an airstone with an airline to make bubbles. In the pool there 
were a couple of guppies, a small comet goldfish, and a crayfish I caught 
wild. There were also two small anoles that liked to perch on the wood. It 
was a very beautiful sight. Oh yes, and a baby western painted turtle 
hatchling.
About a month or two after setting up the tank, I noticed very small white 
worms everywhere crawling up the side of the tank, I tried to clean 
everything out and figure out what this was. About a week later, I noticed my 
Tiger Salamander was bloated and very inactive. He usually burrowed into the 
soil, and came out to feed on crickets. But he was just laying there on top 
near a plant. A day or two later, He was dead, and it looked almost as if his 
belly had exploded, and there were thousands of these little tiny whit worms 
everywhere. So, I removed all the animals from this tank and separated them 
into other tanks, and clean out the 30 gallon tank, and watched the other 
animals. None of them showed signs of parasites or disease. To this day, I 
still don't know what these worms were, what caused them, or how I could have 
prevented them. I'm assuming they were some type of parasitic worm that came 
from the wild. I have never since, tried to set up another tank like that, 
out of fear or my ignorance causing another case of a dead salamander....
I'm sorry I could not be of any help, but I just wanted you to know that your 
experience is not a lone case.
                    -Phil
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