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turtle filter with worms

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Question
I'm curious as to what a very tiny black looking worm infesting only my filters and not found else where in the tank might be? If indeed some type of parasite that I've read about recently researching they have suggested taking the turtle out in dry area only to eat and poop it out basically and bleaching and cleaning tank out and then resuming regular life after that....after even all that is this something that will harm or kill my turtle?and it sounds like this will come back even after you do all the bleach stuff?? i have 3 different aquatic tanks and only one has had this worm like thing in the filters!! help me please...thanks

Answer
You're going to have to be more specific and include a picture. If you read about a parasite, then what parasite is that? What are the environmental conditions and equipment used with this tank? Do you treat the water? Do you change the water? Do you use UVB? Is it a biological filter? What size tank? How many turtles? What do they eat?

You've given very little real information here to go on.