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What is the best way to get rid of hydra? Ive clean the tanks in the past but it seems to keep coming back... any information or treatments out there let me know thanks
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Re: Hydra Question
from http://www.thatfishshop.com/health/pests.htm
Hydra, small white worms with feathery tentacles, are introduced by live foods or on plants and like snails are not harmful to adult fish. Hydra do however, thrive on fish eggs and trap fry with their tentacles and thus must be eliminated from the breeding aquarium.
Hydra can only survive on live food so they can easily be controlled by changing to a diet of flake. If your fish cannot cope with this, a careful dose of 0.5ppm Copper Sulphate will do the trick. Copper Sulphate is toxic to fish so this treatment must be a last resort and used with extreme cation. Bear in mind also that some water conditioners have a high metal ion binding capacity and may render a Copper Sulphate treatment useless. Alternatively, again assuming that you fish can cope, a raise in temperature to 108°F for four hours will kill Hydra.
Some fish have been known to eat hydra but if you already had those fish, you wouldn't have Hydra.....
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