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My green tree frog and pacman frog both got new soil a few weeks ago. I looked closely at the soil (mostly the wetter parts) and there are hundreds of little black worms. A 1/4 of an inch long.

I threw everything away because I hate worms and I freaked out a bit. What are these? Are they parasites? What can I do to prevent these in the long run?

Thank you for any replies

black i'm not sure but what i just had in mine were similar size looked like worms and all it was, was thousands of little baby crickets..... 2 crickets that didnt' get eaten had grown up and mated... so possibly it was the same thing...
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17 BP
2 GTP
3 Chameleons
6 Beardies
1 Crested
2 Huskies
1 blue and gold macaw
1 african grey
1 patternless albino Burmese
2 Reticulated pythons (*purple and lav. albino tiger)
1 savannah monitor ("Spike"
6 treefrogs
2 Brazilian Rainbow boas *(GF named them prince and princess)
1 live in gf lol
= Busy House

in a tank housing those species worms probably arn't good. i have thousands of little white worms in my dart frog tanks, but they just eat them. with frogs that big they wouln't be able to eat them. i would just change the substrate and wash the tank out with 5% bleach solution if possible. if you are really worried you can use dry ice. take the frogs out and the dry ice will kill the worms but not plants. do more reserch before you attempt this though.