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girlcookart
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 Posted: Sun Dec 23, 2012 2:43 pm Post subject: Planaria in my 5g shrimp tank (problem solved) |
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| I found planaria in my freshwater 5g shrimp tank...probably hitch-hiked onto some new plants or shrimps I got this week..how do I get rid of these as I have shrimp fry in the tank..and I know that these critters harm the fry. tried to catch them with the forceps but to no avail |
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| Posted: Sun Dec 23, 2012 2:59 pm Post subject: Re: Planaria in my 5g shrimp tank |
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| Planaria are too slow moving. Will they eat shrimplets? |
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| Posted: Sun Dec 23, 2012 4:10 pm Post subject: Re: Planaria in my 5g shrimp tank |
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| DRDHEEP wrote (View Post):
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Planaria are too slow moving. Will they eat shrimplets?
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dont they affect the shrimp and shrimplets in any way? they are prolific breeders.. |
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| Posted: Sun Dec 23, 2012 7:32 pm Post subject: Re: Planaria in my 5g shrimp tank |
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| I dont think they hurt shrimps but they breed tooo much...... They are a good feed for fishes |
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| Posted: Sun Dec 23, 2012 8:35 pm Post subject: Re: Planaria in my 5g shrimp tank |
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| Jabba's right. Use a thin piped siphon to suck them out. They're good food for fish. One reason of their entrance is through plants but an other way could be of over-feeding but I don't think it is. It won't harm the shrimplets. |
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| Posted: Sun Dec 23, 2012 9:48 pm Post subject: Re: Planaria in my 5g shrimp tank |
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| They will not hurt any tank mates. You can use a little bit of any meat piece (Clean the meat once) inside a small Ice cream cup and keep inside the tank. You can see all the lil' crawlies rushing towards the cup. Then you can remove the cup clean it again repeat the same thing if you really want to get rid of that lil' buggers. |
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| Posted: Sun Dec 23, 2012 10:17 pm Post subject: Re: Planaria in my 5g shrimp tank |
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whoever says planaria don't eat shrimplets is wrong. i have seen them attached to my big RCS. they attach to them and kill them. But the shrimplets are at bigger risk.
i used human dewormer to get rid of it  my shrimps/fish didn't die. i changed the water the next morning. But i had a 30 gallon tank. not too sure on how it will augur in case of a 5 gallon where the dosage might get tricky. |
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| Posted: Sun Dec 23, 2012 10:35 pm Post subject: Re: Planaria in my 5g shrimp tank |
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If that's true then I'm guessing Half my shrimplets are dead.  |
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| Posted: Sun Dec 23, 2012 10:38 pm Post subject: Re: Planaria in my 5g shrimp tank |
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| Oh oops sorry I made mistake. I was actually taking about ostracods (seed shrimps) but planaria I've seen have attacked shrimps. Even large ghost shrimps. They're like leeches slowly sucking away life. The bait method and siphoning method on a regular basis will stop it. |
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| Posted: Mon Dec 24, 2012 12:08 am Post subject: Re: Planaria in my 5g shrimp tank |
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| hmm..this gets tricky...the only small enough siphon i have is an airline tube |
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| Posted: Mon Dec 24, 2012 12:11 am Post subject: Re: Planaria in my 5g shrimp tank |
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Planaria are dangerous for shrimps tank...I have heard no-planaria is very good and have ordered 2packet from London...will update once i get some good result.
In the mean time you can control thefood in your tank and try to make a diy planaria catcher. |
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| Posted: Mon Dec 24, 2012 12:13 am Post subject: Re: Planaria in my 5g shrimp tank |
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| mudjawd wrote (View Post):
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whoever says planaria don't eat shrimplets is wrong. i have seen them attached to my big RCS. they attach to them and kill them. But the shrimplets are at bigger risk.
i used human dewormer to get rid of it my shrimps/fish didn't die. i changed the water the next morning. But i had a 30 gallon tank. not too sure on how it will augur in case of a 5 gallon where the dosage might get tricky.
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and therefore I cannot try this method...because of the tiny size of the aquarium plus there are baby shrimps.
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They will not hurt any tank mates. You can use a little bit of any meat piece (Clean the meat once) inside a small Ice cream cup and keep inside the tank. You can see all the lil' crawlies rushing towards the cup. Then you can remove the cup clean it again repeat the same thing if you really want to get rid of that lil' buggers.
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Now this method I have not heard of, but wont it quickly mess with the water parameters? I dont even have a testing kit!
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I dont think they hurt shrimps but they breed tooo much...... They are a good feed for fishes
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True, but I dont have these in the FISH TANK!! its in my shrimp tank. |
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| Posted: Mon Dec 24, 2012 1:08 am Post subject: Re: Planaria in my 5g shrimp tank |
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Hi,
i had a lot of it in my grass tank initially. got rid of it once started changing water in frequent intervals. frequent water change did not affect my wild caught shrimps. Also, saw a change in their number when i increased the light from 15 W to additional 30 W.
Also forgot to add. their numbers decreased once i added assassin snails to one of my planted tank. |
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| Posted: Mon Dec 24, 2012 8:58 am Post subject: Re: Planaria in my 5g shrimp tank |
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| How about taking out the shrimps and introducing some guppy frys to feast on them. One more thing.... overfeeding helps planaria. |
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