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Re: Hydra, whats the best way to get rid of it?
The only medication i have used that don't kill shrimp is flubenol. But it's almost impossible to find.
Don't ever use anything with copper. Kills inverts deadder and dead.
If you want to go the non-medicine route, set up a BB hospital tank and transfer all the shrimp over to it. Raise the temp of the main tank to 104 deg or more for 15 min. That should take care of the hydra. However your plants might suffer. The other thing is that unless you have a temp regulator, most petstore heaters don't go that high.
Hydra hitchhike on plants, but most commonly through brine shrimp eggs.
The best way to prevent brine shrimp hitchhikers is to decapsulate the eggs.
IMHO, decapsulation is a good habit. Not only does it kill all hitchikers, but hatch rate is significantly increased and hatch times significantly reduced. Giving "younger" and more nutritious BBS
The only medication i have used that don't kill shrimp is flubenol. But it's almost impossible to find.
Don't ever use anything with copper. Kills inverts deadder and dead.
If you want to go the non-medicine route, set up a BB hospital tank and transfer all the shrimp over to it. Raise the temp of the main tank to 104 deg or more for 15 min. That should take care of the hydra. However your plants might suffer. The other thing is that unless you have a temp regulator, most petstore heaters don't go that high.
Hydra hitchhike on plants, but most commonly through brine shrimp eggs.
The best way to prevent brine shrimp hitchhikers is to decapsulate the eggs.
IMHO, decapsulation is a good habit. Not only does it kill all hitchikers, but hatch rate is significantly increased and hatch times significantly reduced. Giving "younger" and more nutritious BBS
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