I just did a little experiment with some ostracods that were proliferating in a tiny container of Monosolenium tenerum I was keeping aside. I removed all of the wort, and I sprinkled some alum right into the water. There were also little snails in there, which died within a minute of my adding the alum. However, it's been a good 20 minutes and the ostracods were hardly even stunned. They're still cruising about absolutely unphased! I added more, and they're still unaffected. What the heck will kill these annoying little buggers?
I've started treating my plants with relatively dilute alum solution before adding them to my newly-set-up tank with the hopes of avoiding the introduction of planaria and ostracods and whatever other creepy junk is living in my other tanks. However, seeing as how the ostracods are not affected in the least, I'm not sure what to do, and I'm not even sure if I've managed to remove all of them from my plants before adding them to my new set-up. When I soaked my dwarf lobelias, the itty-bitty limpets dropped off as soon as the plants hit the solution, so it's working to some degree... I also soaked my driftwood with some petit anubias attached, and a few baby ramshorns that I didn't see immediately fell off and died.
Anyway, *short of* bleach-treating my plants, is there anything that can zap the ostracods? I really hate them and nothing will eat them, either. Will permanganate solution do the trick? I know peroxide will, but I'm afraid this may harm my plants, too.
Thanks.
-Naomi
I've started treating my plants with relatively dilute alum solution before adding them to my newly-set-up tank with the hopes of avoiding the introduction of planaria and ostracods and whatever other creepy junk is living in my other tanks. However, seeing as how the ostracods are not affected in the least, I'm not sure what to do, and I'm not even sure if I've managed to remove all of them from my plants before adding them to my new set-up. When I soaked my dwarf lobelias, the itty-bitty limpets dropped off as soon as the plants hit the solution, so it's working to some degree... I also soaked my driftwood with some petit anubias attached, and a few baby ramshorns that I didn't see immediately fell off and died.
Anyway, *short of* bleach-treating my plants, is there anything that can zap the ostracods? I really hate them and nothing will eat them, either. Will permanganate solution do the trick? I know peroxide will, but I'm afraid this may harm my plants, too.
Thanks.
-Naomi