It takes time for them to go away. Try feeding once a day or every other day, it won't hurt your Betta. I wouldn't worry too much about them, to my knowledge they are harmless. All of my tanks went through this a some point, how old is the tank? Oh, have you checked your nitrAtes? I seem to recall there being a corelation with high nitrates but I'm not certain.
Not sure why I've got so much planaria?
One of my bettas is in a 4 gallon filtered tank, bare bottom, one anubias nana, some wisteria floating and a part of an indian almond leaf. The walls are quite literally covered with planaria
It's worse in some other parts but I couldn't get a clear shot.
I know planaria is a sign of overfeeding and a lot of decaying matter in the tank, but as the tank is bare bottomed I can see there's no decaying matter other than bits of my betta's poop, and I only feed my betta enough to get his belly rounded, and he always eats all of it. I change the water every 3 days, around 30%. So idk why there are so many.... and how can I get rid of them without doing a 100% water change and scrubbing everything?
It's worse in some other parts but I couldn't get a clear shot.
I know planaria is a sign of overfeeding and a lot of decaying matter in the tank, but as the tank is bare bottomed I can see there's no decaying matter other than bits of my betta's poop, and I only feed my betta enough to get his belly rounded, and he always eats all of it. I change the water every 3 days, around 30%. So idk why there are so many.... and how can I get rid of them without doing a 100% water change and scrubbing everything?
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Some of my tanks were worse than others also, didn't seem to be much rhyme or reason to it. The nitrAtes are obviously good 
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