Planaria are BAD i'm afraid you have to clean up one more time and try not to feed too much next time.
Hi all,
How can I get rid of planaria? I've got a 2ft tank filled with an estimated 15liters of water, house 2 RES and a fish. There's a submerge filter and two drift wood.
Last month when I spotted the planaria I tried to put in Vermex, it wasn't helpful at all. Hence i removed the RES + fish and did a 100% clean up to the tank, air dry it for a week before i add in the new water again(I did not mixed the water in my old tank with the new).
BUT NOW THEY'RE BACK!!! IS there anyway I can get rib of them? I used to feed my terrapin daily, as for this week the (trial period) I've only feed the pets twice in a week to see if cutting down of feeding helps. A fruitless attempt.
Planaria are BAD i'm afraid you have to clean up one more time and try not to feed too much next time.
Sigh, I've remove the pets and PH Down the water by alot... infact ridiculous lol... the planaria are dead... but tons of clean to do again.....
but you don't have substrate? maybe they hid there.
fenbendazole... i got from a bro here. Works wonder... but sigh... coming back after a few months. I just leave it now. Another way, try to feed less and frequent change of water. It should do the trick. When i mean less, it mean real less. Maybe alternate day feeding or so.
I have read on forum that Cory Cat eat Planaria.
I tried the natural way and loved it. I put a pair of hungry badis and they cleaned my tank up well.
fresh water puffers work well with cleaning out planaria too..i always add in a puffer to clear out any snails or micro organisms in a new tank especially after adding in plants or driftwoods.
I once had planaria in my tank I put in a chemical(anti-snail was it?). The planaria died, but so did the local fish stock as well, after a day or 2.
my water has these 5mm long white stuff, which looks like worms but really fine, at most 0.5mm thick, are those planaria, they are suspended in the water. All over the place
I bought a chemical, quite good.
Kill all the pests.
CRS still kicking.
So care to share with all of us more about this chemical as on where you got it and what is the name of this chemical as well? I only known of Fenbendazole as one of the best currently but not easily available here as over the counter, we can only get Vermex. However is not 100% safe to use that as some claimed it would do harm especially to shrimplets. Com'on bro, we are here to share and tell us more about your finding. That's how we can improve further. Cheers.
add mollys....they love planarias
i had it over 1-2 month back
after reduce feeding i didnt see any for weeks
can it consider gone?
Nope, they will come back if you excessive feed again
My cherry shrimp tank has been infected by planaria brought in from plants gotten from friends.
Currently trying this Molly method. Don't see much of the planaria. Maybe all are hiding from the Mollies?
Hope the Mollies can eat up all the planaria.
Any other natural methods to recommend?
koah fong
Juggler's tanks
I am using the product from Taiwan called "No Planaria"
Quite work well. Didn't kill my cherry.
Why don't you try to buy a new tank with a new substrate and a new filter, and then put your animals into it once its done cycling. In the meantime, you animals can tahan first in the old tank
my shrimp-only tank was infested by planaria before too. removed all my shrimps and washed the tank inside out. added substrate before putting my shrimps back in. since then, no planaria problems anymore lol. but really alot of effort, considering the amount of shrimps and shrimplets i had.
my 100 gallon tank:
- 23 blood parrots
- 2 high-fin plecostomus
my 10 gallon shrimp tank:
- sakura, cherry, malaya, orange, snowball, tiger, bamboo
- 3 otocinclus, 3 assassin snails
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