Pest control

[Loudness]

My tank have been cycled for about 5 weeks. 2 weeks ago i realised there's alot of white worms in the tank, should be from my old tank equipment. So i change the filter wool, increase the tempeture to 32, spam vermex, baxtor white worms away, baxtor snails and worms away, and salt. So far the white worms have reduced.

So i did a 90% water change tonight. When i on the canister, hundreds of dead hydras flow out. Never encounter hydras before and don't know how it get into my tank.

I'm not sure if the tank is safe to house shrimps, should i continue to spam those medicine/poison? Or is there any better ways to deal with it? I saw on the sticky on using 9v battery to kill it (copper), is it safe? Anyone tried it?

To add on, currently the tank is filled with soil only, no livestock or plant.

Thanks in advance...

[Navanod]

Are you sure those are hydra? Dead hydra usually curls up into a tiny ball and wouldn't look like a hydra.
Mostly, when a canister is turned off and on, alot of yellowish bacteria film will get ejected. Are you actually seeing this film instead?

I wouldn't recommend copper in a shrimp tank at all. It may get absorbed by the soil and later release when the soil breaks down.
Also, please use some activated carbon before adding shrimp to make sure you get any remaining drugs out of the water.

[Loudness]

yup. i'm sure it's hydras. it looks 100% alike from online picture.

thanks for the reminder of using activated carbon.

if don't using copper, what else can i use?

[alvinchan80]

Loudness, you added medications and etc into your tank which is for shrimps?

Will these medications or stuff remain as residue in your tank and when you introduce shrimps, they slowly release into the water and shrimps starts having problems?

As for hydras, if they are dead.. Don't bother..

[Loudness]

Loudness, you added medications and etc into your tank which is for shrimps?

Will these medications or stuff remain as residue in your tank and when you introduce shrimps, they slowly release into the water and shrimps starts having problems?

As for hydras, if they are dead.. Don't bother..

i'm worried about that too. will try to stir the top layer of the soil when do water change to get rid of the stuff before introduce shrimps.

[felix_fx2]

Hydras in canister?
But anyways, their dead. Take out the media and rinse with tank water then clean the interior.

Hope the stuff you add don't stay that long. Fish do eat some worms could have employed some part time fish from friends.

[Loudness]

washed the media with tank water and changed the filter wool already.

currently having weird water parameter,
ammonia - 0.5
no2 - 0
no3 - 0

[xconnect.]

never copper sure will have something absorb and you sure hundreds of hydras? that is alot

[Loudness]

yup. good thing is they are all dead. just bought some sakura to test the water for 2 weeks before introduce crs.

[paradox]

I used no planaria to get rid of hydras in my CRS tank. Got rid of them once and for all. Was given just enough to dose my tank by a very generous bro a few months back. You can try procuring some. Not sure why, but it works against hydras.

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[xiaofeng90]

i encountered the white worm problem when in cycle mode too what i did was throw in 5 platy and 2 guppy and i never feed them anything till my end of my cycle . All the worm is cleared not a single one.

[fishlearn]

If shrimps are already in the tank ... and i add a small fish in to clear some pests ... will it be harmful to shirmplets ?

I think i see some funny looking bugs in the shrimp tank soil.

[Loudness]

the 5 sakura i put in are acting weird, they haven't eat for 2 days, and all gather at the sponge filter area. is it because poison/medication are still leaking from the soil?