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Cycling a new tank with a seeded filter pad an just watch what looked like a worm swim out of it and back in. What do I do?
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29 Gallon SA Tank -- 5 Bleeding Heart Tetras, Mated Pair of Angels, 7 Green Corys, and a Rubberlip Pleco
30 Gallon Breeder -- 20+ neon tetras, 3 albino cories, 2 albino bristlenose plecos, female betta, 1 angel
5 Gallon Shrimp Nano - Sakura Red Shrimp, Boraras Brigittae, Oto Cats, Olive Nerites, and Pink Ramshorn -
The pad came from my fry tank and from looking online it looks like planaria. What should i use to kill these? This is going to be an invert tank.29 Gallon SA Tank -- 5 Bleeding Heart Tetras, Mated Pair of Angels, 7 Green Corys, and a Rubberlip Pleco
30 Gallon Breeder -- 20+ neon tetras, 3 albino cories, 2 albino bristlenose plecos, female betta, 1 angel
5 Gallon Shrimp Nano - Sakura Red Shrimp, Boraras Brigittae, Oto Cats, Olive Nerites, and Pink Ramshorn -
no need to kill them... it's perfectly fine. i think they're kinda cute.my fish house:
2.5g- ramshorn hatchery
6g eclipse- yellow shrimp, chili rasboras, yellow apple snails
29g- geo grow-out, angels, 12"fire eel, dwarf frog, apple snails
45g- jade sleeper gobies, native killifish, feeder endlers
75g- 2 oscars, parrot, silver dollars, albino channel cat, syno euptera, bichir, baby jaguar, convicts, yabby
125g- fahaka puffer, rainbow shark
and about a dozen bettas....Comment
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Will inverts eat these?Don't tell fish stories where people know you; but particularly, don't tell them where they know the fish.
Mark Twain
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My shrimp do...Nothing Kills Evil Like a Sharp Stick...Comment
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Mine ignore them, gouramis have an appetite for them. Just toss in a betta or a dwarf gourami and net it out a few days later...In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.
Desiderius Erasmus
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Re: Worm??
You're shrimp eat planaria?! What type of shrimp? Chris & Troy, Are you both sure this is planaria you're experiencing?Originally posted by troy tucker View Post
Usually planaria is a bad thing in a shrimp tank. they attack shrimp, I've seen it on my PFR tank. Weird but cool at the same time, there was something different about the shrimp the planaira attacked. I say attack, about 50 - 100 planaria swarmed one berried female. Was she sick? About to molt? About to hatch eggs? Interestingly the eggs where left untouched. I removed the shrimp to a holding dish & watched the planaria consume it from the inside out. You can actually treat the tank with de-wormer for dogs found @ petsmart. I didn't do that. What I did was cut back on feeding drastically & clean the tank every few days. Now I'm planaria free & my numbers are coming back!
They can come from filter media, plants, etc...30Long: L134 Leopard Frog Plecos X16, Corydoras Sterbai X9, Endlers X4
Small ADA nano (~8gal): ... BKK or OEBT breeding tank in the works!
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I am asuming thats what they were. but I did have snails and bamboo shrimp thin. So it may have been the snails or the filterfeeders. Haven't seen them in a long time. and now that i think about it they showed up about the time I got the red cherry's.Nothing Kills Evil Like a Sharp Stick...Comment
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Re: Worm??
Planaria are flat bodied with triangle spear shaped heads. Almost translucent too.30Long: L134 Leopard Frog Plecos X16, Corydoras Sterbai X9, Endlers X4
Small ADA nano (~8gal): ... BKK or OEBT breeding tank in the works!
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to put it simply, they're phallic... but they are in my shrimp tank at home and also the one i care for at work to no ill effect. the skrimps are breeding like crazy! its true a betta would help clean them out if you choose to do so, but IMO theres no need...my fish house:
2.5g- ramshorn hatchery
6g eclipse- yellow shrimp, chili rasboras, yellow apple snails
29g- geo grow-out, angels, 12"fire eel, dwarf frog, apple snails
45g- jade sleeper gobies, native killifish, feeder endlers
75g- 2 oscars, parrot, silver dollars, albino channel cat, syno euptera, bichir, baby jaguar, convicts, yabby
125g- fahaka puffer, rainbow shark
and about a dozen bettas....Comment
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I agree. I've had them in almost all my tanks. I suspect they came in on plants. Never saw them bother any tank inhabitants. They occur naturally in just about any body of freshwater; ponds, lakes, etc.Originally posted by allysangels View Post
MarkWhat are the facts? Again and again and again--what are the facts? Shun wishful thinking, ignore devine revelation, forget what "the stars foretell", avoid opinion, care not what the neighbors think, never mind the unguessable "verdict of history"--what are the facts, and to how many decimal places? You pilot always into an unknown future; facts are your only clue.
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wow! thats wierd. i didnt realize they were carnivores but a quick google search will show that they attack living animals at times, especially mosquito larvae. i would have guessed that was nematodes, but then all i know about them i learned in bikini bottom and campfires burn underwater thereOriginally posted by TexSun View Post75G Standard - High Light Planted Community Fish
28G Aquapod - Medium Light Planted Shrimp & Microrasboras
12G Eclipse - Bonsai Planted Betta & Shrimp
29G Standard - Vivarium w/ Red Devil Crabs
45G Exo-Terra - Terrarium w/ Hermit Crabs (in progress)
33G Cubish - Vivarium w/ D.auratus 'blue & bronze'
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Yeah, just google: planaria shrimp tank, and all the answers will come forth.30Long: L134 Leopard Frog Plecos X16, Corydoras Sterbai X9, Endlers X4
Small ADA nano (~8gal): ... BKK or OEBT breeding tank in the works!
75g Craigslist Special: In the works...Comment
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Originally posted by Totenkampf View Post
wasnt EK's CRS tank dubbed bikini bottom or something of sorts????30Long: L134 Leopard Frog Plecos X16, Corydoras Sterbai X9, Endlers X4
Small ADA nano (~8gal): ... BKK or OEBT breeding tank in the works!
75g Craigslist Special: In the works...Comment
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