Protein worms are _ body worm genus animals, this worm is harmless, some fish will also take it as food. The cause of the appearance of this worm is over-fertilized water. The so-called "protein worm," which looks small and white to the naked eye, is an aquatic oligochaete called the dotted_body_worm, also known as the red-spotted_body_worm.
The small worm belongs to a benthic aquatic oligochaetes, and can sometimes float or attach for a short period of time, attaching itself to debris in the water or even to the surface of the fish. According to Liang Peng, Huang Xia and other research, the worm is common in eutrophic domestic sewage and ponds, and can also be found in the sludge of sewage treatment plants, which is omnivorous and mainly feeds on organic debris and bacteria in the sludge and in the water column.