Planaria and Hydra Elimination in Shrimp Tanks - Page 2 - Library

starsunmoon · 08-21-2008, 01:30 PM

very helpful ! I am battling these things right now, !! I am going to the store today to buy what I can find with this info . I oray it works, my worms do not look' like the flat worm, but I have to get rid of them !!!! thanxs for the info !!!

yum · 08-22-2008, 07:29 AM

Thanks for the advice. The first dose got rid of 90% of the planaria and it took a few days. I just added a tiny bit more to the water last night to get the last few guys. No change in behavior in the fish or the shrimp. I have also observed the shrimp fry and noticed they were behaving normally. No water changes performed. Kudos to this article and the contributors!

vinman · 08-25-2008, 08:49 AM

Fenbendazole can be bought as a liquid under the name Panacur or just ask for liquid Fenbendazole It mixes very easily with water. You can get it at a Vet, reptile show or Pigeon/bird supply store . You can also find it through the Internet. I use this stuff for my reptiles as a dewormer.

Sunstar · 09-17-2008, 03:11 PM

I've just treated the tank with about 0.15
grams of panacur, the tank's a 25 gallon. I am erring on the side of caution. will it work at this dosage?

SpongeEva · 09-28-2008, 02:51 AM

This is really interesting. All the sites about tank critters I've come across say hydras are harmless, BUT I always noticed how my apple snails seemed to be 'stung' when they touch/slide over a hydra. I've seen it close up; I have had lots of hydra in my tanks. Sometimes the snails got a little swelling on their antennae where they touched the hydra that went down after a few days.

Hmm, if it hurt an apple snail... think of what it could do to a sensitive little shrimpy?

I dont actually have hydra anymore. I had so many so I just scraped the glass everyday, which pretty much got rid on them? It might of been other things too. Now I have HUNDREDS of copepods/ostracods, little white wormy things, and some planaria.

armedbiggiet · 12-13-2008, 10:59 PM

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Originally Posted by milalic

Article is very good. I have use larger doses that what Matpat recommends and have had no problems. In fact hydra dies within hours. I did a water change after 24hrs.

This article has been very useful. Persons in different forums have been pointed to it and have use it.

does any one know if this is okay on planted shrimp tank?

yum · 12-16-2008, 09:58 AM

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Originally Posted by armedbiggiet

does any one know if this is okay on planted shrimp tank?

i've used mine on my el natural planted tank with red cherry shrimp and they don't seem affected at all. i dosed the tank back in August and have not changed the water. all is fine with the shrimps. they are still breeding like crazy and appear active and healthy.

i think that the medicine wears off over time as i noticed a few planaria in the tank recently which i took out with long tweezers. it also greatly controlled my snail population. i still have plenty of MTS and pond snails but they are not in the plague proportions as they were before.

so i'd say this is safe for cherry shrimp. hope this helps

Sunstar · 12-21-2008, 10:24 AM

I want to say, I used this on the two tanks that were affected. I am unsure, but I think it did kill off my nerite snails I had in the tanks at the time. So I might warn that it is possible to wipe out your nerites. Other than that, not a hydra left. I think I did od by mistake the one tank because the hydra all fell off within an hour of treatment.

Worked well. Just remove all "pet" snails

DonaldmBoyer · 12-21-2008, 03:47 PM

I have used dosages of aquarium salt and peroxide to kill off both planaria and hydra in the past without any problems to shrimplets. Just pointing out another potential option......

Nice article, Matt!

PLANT^NUT · 01-03-2009, 05:59 PM

thanks for the info.