I also got such problem.... The advise i got is not to overfeed the shrimps and siphon the substrate once every week. It does help a bit....
I also got such problem.... The advise i got is not to overfeed the shrimps and siphon the substrate once every week. It does help a bit....
Mind showing how the worm looks like? It might not be harmful worm.. If not harmful, just leave it since it doesn't hurt the shrimps... Unsightly or lose shrimps.. Have to weigh the damage...
Don't siphon the soil.. Might cause shrimp or shrimplets to die... Ammonia spike when disturbed.. Normally shrimp keepers try not to disturb the soil...
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Not to overfeed i agree but siphon?? Who advise you that may I know cause I would like to learn. Have you done it yourself since you mention you were advise to do it?? Please don't just say you are advise to do such a simple sentence not to mention once a week...... Either you are aiming to reset your tank in 6 month times or you just shoot without trying it out yourself....
Have you try siphon before and look at the tank condition?
Acually green chapter has traps for sale for these worms just put food in it and wait for a few days.
Depend on the type of worms you are talking about wiggling or flat arrow head one be more specify on it. Wiggling one most likely mean you filter wool is clog with dirt time to service it. If those arrow head bugger known as planaria..... You can try what xconnect mention get a catch pen from green chapter (but for your info last heard out of stock) or you can siphon yes you read me correct SIPHON the bugger out and hmmm than dump than in a small
Container of saltwater. I wouldn't advise shooting it directly into your toilet bowl why hmm i watch too much sci-fi keep getting the bloody feeling they will attack the butt!!! Sorry mod edit if you want blame my doctor flu medication...
I notice another kind of worm that just pop it's head out of the soil, red in color. They don't look like planaria.
I think those worms are pretty harmless too. <- Not sure about this?
Those white wrigglers can just leave them alone. They actually eat the remaining food left in the soil.
So are you using soil or sand or gravel?? The seriousness of it is when you do something like that i am sure alot of shrimplet will get buried below. Even shrimp will get buried not to mention creating a dust storm causing spikes.
If you do have a good method to share how to you did it. It will benefit everyone also.
I am using GEX substrate, those red packaging from local LFS. The siphon that I am using is a DIY type. The available siphon in the market is way too big for my tank so I DIY a mini one just for siphon the worms hiding in the substrate. Usually i just siphon about a 1/4 of the tank floor each time. I try to take photo of my siphon and post here.
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Ok, hope i do not get shoot here. Here is how I did my mini Siphon.
In the photo below:
It consist (from left to right)
1. Dripper (can be purchased from Arts Friend, I got mine from Bouna Vista Mrt side)
2. Normal Air tubing which can be purchased from any LFS
3. A bottle which you can fill in water and squeeze the water out, sorry, i do not know how to describe ( I got from Daiso, IMM).
Lets start on the Dripper first, Cut the bulb head off as shown below. On the tip side, use a pen knife to make the tip as round as possible.
Use the air tubing, connect one end to the bottle tip and another end to the dripper tip.
The final product looks like this
How to use it:
Adjust the bottle cap, not too tight and not too loose, the adjustment must be just nice that when you squeeze the air out from the bottle and hold it, put the dripper side into the tank, onto your substrate, place the bottle below the tank, release (unsqueeze) the bottle, the water should start to flow from your tank into the dripper and into the bottle and this should continue to flow as what a siphon should work, if it does not perform as what a siphon would do, re-adjust the bottle cap again to get it correct. When siphoning, if too much substrate got into the dripper, lift the dripper a bit higher so that the substrate would fall back to the tank, then lower the dripper into the substrate again.
How it works:
As the diameter of the air tubing, the dripper tip is very small, the flow would not be so great as to create cloud in your tank, also the suction flow is very weak where your substrate would just raise up around 1 cm and then fall back onto the tank, but the flow is just nice to suck out fine particles and these white worms.
Why i did it such a way. My tank is really small, 8 inch in length, my substrate is about 1 cm thick. The height of my tank is the same length as the dripper. So you all can see how small is my tank.
I believe this DIY siphon should work for tiny tank like mine, if for the nano tank or bigger tank, you might need to modify it to suits your tank.
Last but not least, I hope i have not offend anyone especially the seniors here, I am still a newbie and I have learn a lot from all of you here. I would be slowly migrating all my shrimps to a bigger tank soon. Peace.....
Cool i will diy ylthis thanks
Great DIY finally someone that prove what he said and not just shooting out for the sake of "my friend told me so" apologies to you of my earlier post sound harsh cause it could be a very drastic storm cloud if some newbie don't know and do it end up killing all his shrimps. Once again good DIY and thanks you very much for sharing. I see some of the item need to go daiso shopping and DIY and try it out.
Not a problem. It is worth to share if this idea works for all.
I would like to emphasize that the DIY siphon works well for my small tank, for any tank that is bigger and taller, you need to modify to suit your own tank needs, the one shows on photo is just to serve as a general reference.
Cheers. Happy shrimp keeping
Great job! Hahaha when you initially mentioned siphon the soil I think many of us imagined the traditional siphon with the blue hand pump at the end.
This is related to the typical hand pump siphon sets commonly found to the LFS. The bottle has to be squeezed to create a vacuum and suck in the water and dirt. The only difference is that seudzar made it in a mini version. Nice work seudzar.
If I may suggest, the use of a filter net over the end of the dropper's bulb might be useful in preventing the substrate or shrimplets from being sucked in.
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Now I know why you describe it as siphon. Think more of a vacuum but the "head" indeed made to me mimic of the suction end of one.
Good job there with this pictorial.
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