In several shots, I saw red worm like or millipede like things swimming around. They seemed to be about the same length as the shrimp. What are those things?
Ah yes - those are live bloodworms after a rather enthusiastic midge got in the tank somehow, and they're certainly not the ideal tankmates for neocaridina, they mostly eat detritus while they are small but as they get bigger will definitely munch on any shrimplets they can catch. I'm not worried though as I plan on breeding CPDs in the tank once the salt treatment is done and the bloodworms will just become free high quality breeding conditioner for them :D
i usually throw the old water out. but if in the event i need it, I doze the old water with meds overnight and then put a bag activated carbon the next day.
Great video, I seen your blue green algae video, also great video. Did your natural remedy resolve the blue algae? Or do you still have some? I’m seeing starts of it and trying to get on top of it now. I don’t want to nuke with strong meds
Heyo. Really well actually. So far I have had no signs of reinfection even though I’m rubbish at removing moults. I’ve done a few large water changes since the video just to make sure the salt was all gone and so far, it looks to have worked 🤞
I use aquarium salt whenever I do water changes for my freshwater fish it's only like a tablespoon or 3 for 135 gallon aquarium when I do a 50% water change will that salt in there hurt the neocaridina shrimp that I bought and being shipped And what should the number be in the salinity meter
NEVER use regular table salt in an aquarium! It contains iodine and can cause quite a few problems. Always use natural sea salt or aquarium salts so as not to kill everything. Other than that one big no-no, and the mispronunciation of Scutariella every time, it is a very informative video and you have a very soothing voice. Thank you for sharing!
Salt isnt iodised in the uk, if it is it’s clearly labelled, in which case you are not using table salt you are using iodised salt. Which is different. If you are in a different country then well, yes clearly do your due diligence.
I’m just worried as my tank has so many snails plants and other fish I’m like is the salt gonna kill my plants 😭 but I’ve added salt before (removing snails) and the plants seemed to be fine! So hopefully they’ll be okay pray for my bacopa and valisneria
I wonder how effective copepods would be at controlling scutariella numbers? I had some in my tank and noticed they striked at a tiny worm on the glass before
She has a broadcaster quality to her voice
What an interesting video! First time I've heard of these.
Boosting for the algorithm 🙌 Love your work, keep it up! 🌻🐝
Youre doing a massive service to the community with videos like this. Really valuable content!
Interesting stuff! I have no idea what a scoot is but at least I know how to get rid of them…
wow first time i stumble upon your channel! Keep it up! You're great at explaining :D
Fun fact: it is pronounced Skoo-ta-ree-el-la :)
I wish I could press the like button 100 times.❤
Scoot scuts! Get ye gone!
Thanks for the informative video!
Thank you!
Very helpful, thank you!
I’m going to try this on Holtodrilus truncates
Thank you very much!
In several shots, I saw red worm like or millipede like things swimming around. They seemed to be about the same length as the shrimp. What are those things?
Ah yes - those are live bloodworms after a rather enthusiastic midge got in the tank somehow, and they're certainly not the ideal tankmates for neocaridina, they mostly eat detritus while they are small but as they get bigger will definitely munch on any shrimplets they can catch. I'm not worried though as I plan on breeding CPDs in the tank once the salt treatment is done and the bloodworms will just become free high quality breeding conditioner for them :D
i usually throw the old water out. but if in the event i need it, I doze the old water with meds overnight and then put a bag activated carbon the next day.
Great video, I seen your blue green algae video, also great video. Did your natural remedy resolve the blue algae? Or do you still have some? I’m seeing starts of it and trying to get on top of it now. I don’t want to nuke with strong meds
Currently dealing with this is my tank. Any updates on how things are going?
Heyo. Really well actually. So far I have had no signs of reinfection even though I’m rubbish at removing moults. I’ve done a few large water changes since the video just to make sure the salt was all gone and so far, it looks to have worked 🤞
I use aquarium salt whenever I do water changes for my freshwater fish it's only like a tablespoon or 3 for 135 gallon aquarium when I do a 50% water change will that salt in there hurt the neocaridina shrimp that I bought and being shipped
And what should the number be in the salinity meter
how did it workout in the end ?
I was under the impression you should be using aquarium salt as opposed to table salt. Or is there actually no difference?
NEVER use regular table salt in an aquarium! It contains iodine and can cause quite a few problems. Always use natural sea salt or aquarium salts so as not to kill everything. Other than that one big no-no, and the mispronunciation of Scutariella every time, it is a very informative video and you have a very soothing voice. Thank you for sharing!
Salt isnt iodised in the uk, if it is it’s clearly labelled, in which case you are not using table salt you are using iodised salt. Which is different. If you are in a different country then well, yes clearly do your due diligence.
So sea salt is fine? 😅
I’m just worried as my tank has so many snails plants and other fish I’m like is the salt gonna kill my plants 😭 but I’ve added salt before (removing snails) and the plants seemed to be fine!
So hopefully they’ll be okay pray for my bacopa and valisneria
I wonder how effective copepods would be at controlling scutariella numbers? I had some in my tank and noticed they striked at a tiny worm on the glass before
Whats a good aquarium salt?
Hopefully you have totally eradicated the issue completely following your second trratement.
Surely you shouild very briefly say what scutalarai are at the begiining
At the beginning Lauren says she made a video about them so won’t go into detail here ✌️
I hope by now you’ll have realised, as Lauren mentioned at the beginning, she already made a video all about them ✌️
She did! ✌️
Ok but what if you can't remove ANY plants or wood???...
You can still use salt to treat the tank. But do more water changes after to make sure it’s all removed.
Using table salt? Is a big big no