No, Planaria Are NOT Harmless. They WILL EAT Your SHRIMP & Young Fish Fry. Fish Tank Worm Troubles.
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@Alex Big FACTS!!!!!
I call them KI**ERS WORMS!!
Thanks For Sharing ✍
Waw i never new they worms could kill fish like that
Thanks again for all you do Alexander the great 👍 Alex
You noted that this stuff kills snails, too. Is that ALL snails or just certain varieties?
I did the 3 day course with NO PLanaria. after a week i did the 3 days course again... and those nasty worms are still there.... It could be that i gave too little during the course. my tank is 13 liters and if forgot to add the extra 3 liters of my filter... I just hope planaria don't get immune to the dosing..
That is sad to see Alex, i must admit, i thought planaria weren't a big deal, but i started losing shrimp and couldn't figure out why, once i treated for planaria i could see the numbers pick up again. This video was very helpful in confirming my suspicion.
Thanks for sharing your experience also. Because I was torn for a long time about it, I have a video of them eating a baby guppy about 2 or 3 years ago also
We've got an explosion of these in our wildlife pond. They are even eating land slugs that venture into the water.
I have seen a few here and there in my tanks. I know where they came from, some moss that I didn't treat before happily adding it to all my tanks. They didn't seem to be much of a problem at first. But as we speak I am in a vicious battle with these little A-holes in my 5g. I had 12 juvenile skittles shrimp in that tank and they started disappearing. 2 days after I noticed I couldn't find a couple of my fav skittles shrimp, I couldn't find any of them. All I had left in that tank was 4 male blue star endlers. Next 2 there are only 2 little male endlers. Thought I was losing it...I'm looking in the carpet with a flash light thinking they had to havd jumped, looking everywhere, can't find thd bodies. So I moved the last 2 endlers to another tank. Next day I see them! EVERYWHERE, on the plants, on the rocks, on the small driftwood piece, on the glass. Hundreds of these ugly little nasty things.
So I dosed 4 times with fritz Expel. A bunch of them died along with some creepy looking black critter that is totally flat and looks like a ribbon. I tried looking that critter up, no success. Do you have any idea what itcmight be? It kinda looks like the flat black thing in your danger pic.
Anyway, four doses of Expel later and they are still hundreds alive and well coming up out of the deep substrate. So I dose with pancure c. Hundreds more dead planaria. I'm literally scooping them out by turkey basterfuls. And I'm thinking...
HAH got ya and the weird black creepies too.
But no, after 7, SEVEN does of 2 different meds back to back and scooping out at least 1/8th of an inch of dead ones all across the substrate, there are STILL MORE live ones coming up and out and living!!
Last night was the last dose of pancure c. and I'm still seeing planaria and the creepy black critters coming up out of the substrate. Never saw anything like this in my life.
Thursday I'm ordering the
No Planaria. Havd to wait til payday or it would be on it's way today.
Except for the plants that lil tank is toasted. After I do the No Planaria, I'm tearing the tank down and starting over.
With the deep deep substrate I've got I'll never get the residue of all those meds out of it and I like my snails which all died off during the blitz.
And then I'm going to treat all my other tanks with the No Planaria, because for 2 years what didn't look like a problem suddenly exploded into one in my little 5g and I NEVER EVER want to see this happen again.
Lost 12 juvie skittle shrimp and 2 male blue star endlers and then all my ramshorn snails with treatments.
So what did I learn? To quarantine and treat all plants before they ever go in a tank. And that you can have hundreds of planaria and other creepies you never see until one day they explode and take out all your shrimp and small fish too in just a couple of days.
So yeah, let people keep saying planaria are not a problem...LIES!!
I'm still grossed out and creeped out and pissed tf off! And it all goes back to adding some moss over a year ago that I didn't treat or quarantine, all of this is my own dang fault.
But planaria in a shrimp tank are DEADLY AND DANGEROUS.
I think the only reason my other tanks have so few is that the fish pick off enough when they're hungry enough to keep them under control.
But I don't care, from now on, if I ever see even one ever again, that tank is getting treated. 😤😡😤
Good information and facts in your video.
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I think you had a leach ...they often show up in Warmer climates (southern USA) But can appear anywhere in theory. So yeah you had a skinny leach that had no food lol.
Also, NO PLANARIA...it's no joke...within 3 days usually...every single one will be dead. Don't dose more than the pack says just because on day 2 you may see more...they're coming out of hiding to die
Ugh that sucks! My lfs has HUGE planeria in their shrimp tanks and I tried to point out that it's a problem, but the manager thinks they only eat plants...wish I had another lfs to go to because I don't really trust them tbh
Oi... a quick Google will show them, that is not the case. Sorry. That is a bummer. I have another video where they're eating a live baby guppy too...maybe show them that video?
I have a small tank 3.5 gallons with red bees... suddenly i see hundred of planaria all over the glass... i dosed NO planaria already the 3 day period... and still have.. now i'm at the 3rd day of the second round... still all over... Did NO PLAnaria ever NOT work for anyone? and what to do. with soil and rocks i deducted about 1/2 gallon and calculated..This is making me crazy and depressed that it didn't work.. in my office i had a few planaria and i dosed and all gone... but not here.
I spotted a planaria in one of my tanks and knew exactly where to come first for info. After years of watching I just joined your patreon.
Hahah well thank you so very kindly my friend. Welcome!
I have neocaridinas in all my tanks and some of them have planaria. I have never seen planaria taking down shrimps but you are not the first to mention this problem. I don't dispute that they might take down a shrimp here and there, although I've never seen that happen. However, I believe in most cases they might feed mostly on already very sick or dead shrimp. With the exception of otocinclus, I bet all the fish you can think about does more harm to any shrimp colony than planaria (yes, any nano fish will prey young shrimplets). And fish don't help clean up the excess food on the bottom of your tank like planaria does.
I agree that a balanced ecosystem can do just fine with some of them (especially if you do have fish). I've only observed about 20 fish species that won't eat baby shrimp readily (I put 10 babies and a fish in a Specimen Container for 3 days each, and try new species every few months. But live bearers and some tetras will definitely kill all the babies faster than the planaria.
@@Fishtory what are the fish species that wont eat shrimplets?
I put pygmy Corey cats in my tank and they cleaned them out quick. They pair well with shrimps too.
I agree
Dye some feed to make things a bit easier
Do they affect fish?
Yes tiny fry
Just came here from the live lol
My guppies would spit them out, but then I bought a handful of green neon tetras. After a few weeks planarians went from being everywhere to being nowhere.
Yeah slowly they'll eat em haha
Goodluck. Had these about a year back. Not sure how the got in my tank but they are the creepiest little creatures. Tried everything natural I could before resorting to no planaria. I didn’t want to kill my snails but they started killing them anyway once deprived of food. If it happens again, which I take every precaution to prevent, I will not hesitate to use chemicals to kill them at the first sign.
I've been in that same position several times and honestly "no planaria" was all that I've found that truly kills them all for any amount of time
I bought a dewormer that just killed planaria. Flubendazol I believe is what I used but it comes in huge packages.
Seen them the first time today two planaria attacking two bladder snails in the face crazy creatures
Oh crazy!
I just found planaria in my tank yesterday, today I found pregnant shrimp dead :( , I breed guppies do u think if a let a couple of those lose in the tank will they help get rid of them? The tank is only a month old my parameter are good
They will kill some, but they are probably going to keep being an issue...id get some "no planaria"... use half the dose recommended and within 4 days theyll be gone for good
qwq Alex help!! My shrimp tank has little white worms that LOOK like planeria.
My pregnant blue shrimp has a worm attached to her cute wittle head...
I started using Bacteria AE recently.
It's probably partially due to excess food ( including bacter AE) so I'd cut feedings to maybe 3 days a week and skip the AE for a month or so unless you have tons of babies all over ( it grows biofilms...which are great for baby shrimp...but also most other pests eat it too). But you can Google neocaridina salt dip for scootilaria japonica (sp?) Or skoot/ scoot. It's the name of the little guys munching on the shrimp...and in her gills is where they feed first. If she had them on the outside, they're likely on the inside of her shell too.
It's not super deadly right away...usually takes weeks to kill. So you have time. Good luck
@Fishtory you are so kind for responding!!
I use Bacter AE to feed the shrimp, the broods just gave birth so it seemed ideal.
I will feed the colony less and keep an eye out for my pregnant Blue baby so I can isolate her in a salt bath...!! Thank you again really!!
Do you know where the planaria eggs are? If I net out the shrimp to a safe tank, I’m wondering if planaria eggs will get in the net or be on the actual shrimp? RIP LRB Blues
Yeah they Lay cysts or hard shelled eggs that are super tiny and can stick to stuff and then in times of abundant food they can give live birth ...oi
Hey Alex, I noticed some in my tank today. Is this video still the best advice currently in your opinion? Thanks
Don’t planaria emit a neurotoxin to stun their prey?
Your shrimp is probably stunned.
Its either a neurotoxin or digestive/ acidic chris chemical
@Alex, is there a fish or species that eats the planeria ? I know you said the neocardina shrimp will chop them up but is there a natural solution other then dosing with dog dewormer ?
Betel nut extract AKA The product : "NO PLANARIA" ... it's just pure nut extract that causes them to dehydrate (shrimp and fish safe...move any sensitive snails).
I linked the best price/shipping cost source that I found in the pinned comment and also in the top of the description.
As for fish... all livebearers will eat some if hungry enough, as will badis, corries and most small loaches. It's just tricky to not feed them any fish food for 4 or 5 days and get then hungry enough to eat a seemingly chewy and tasteless tiny worm. Also they keep numbers down, but since planaria are Nocturnal, they often still kill shrimp for a while until their colony population drops over the months or so
@@Fishtory thank you so much.
Are there other flat worms that crawl across glass that aren’t planaria? I’m on day 3 of no planaria and I keep seeing them but they don’t appear to have a triangle head
Yes there are detritus worms as well...and nematodes. Most are harmless and fish love them. Shrimp...not so much, because they all compete for food in the end
Can you use no planeria if you have Cory catfish with your shrimp?
Yup
The amount of valuable knowledge you've given me has been priceless. Thank you so much.
That means the world to me. Thank you so very much for the kind words. I'm just learning and sharing as I learn just like everyone else :)
@@Fishtory you're a great inspirational person. You got me into selling my shrimp online to people all over the US. Haha! You've made me and my fish/shrimp world very happy! Have a good one! :)
Sorry for your shrimp losses, Alex. It sucks. We win some and lose some in the aquarium hobby. :(
Thanks my friend. I guess it's good I stopped them before they killed the mothers too
Thank for you great work and information on those deadly creatures. They are Furious shrimpkillers.
Np thanks
My problem is differentiating between planaria and detritus worms especially when small ... My rasbora love snacking on the detritus worms so I like some of them swimming around..
Detritus worms squiggle and wiggle around planaria slither like a snake
Also detritus worms tend to be white planaria tend to be pinkish tan with the diamond or triangular "head"
The planaria traps work great, I bait it with bloodworms. I’ve seen them attack during molt. They also live in my canister, I’m guessing that shrimp died. I think they might secret a poison.
Yes it took 5 days but she did die sadly :( I think you must be correct about the poison
@@Fishtory Planaria do have poison that paralyzes shrimp, their slime when they crawl across glass also kills too (especially baby shrimp).
I read molly, endlers and guppies eat planaria and hydra. Can they help?
Indeed. Badis and loaches as well. But they do it when bored and not fed yummy flake food all day. So fast them for 2 or 3 days and boom....theyll start eating them usually
How infuriating! Get rid of them!
Yup "no planaria" kills them all in 2 or 3 days...for like 6 months or more
What are your thoughts on rhabdocoela? It's another small white flatworm that does not have a triangle shaped head. I have them in my neocaridina tank and everything I have seen says they are harmless. But I have many snails in my tank and have been on the fence about treating with no planaria or panacur. I have multiple barried females and babies in multiple sizes. I haven't noticed any deaths or stress.
Rhabdocoela haven't ever harmed my shrimp in the 7 years I've bred them, that I've noticed anyhow. So they may be a small threat, but it's a really rare occurrence if they do have the ability to cause harm.
@@Fishtory thank you very much
Thank you for this video Alex 🙏❤️
GREAT INFORMATION Alex thanks Brother ✌
Thanks brotha.
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I have a lot of snails, I’m planning on removing all that I can but the trumpets are usually deep into the substrate where I can’t see them. Should I be worried about an ammonia spike after using this from the dead snails? Big water changes are stressful for the shrimps but an ammonia spike moreso obviously
If theres a lot of dead snails... then yes, its ideal to remove them before 24hrs of decay or so.
Have you ever used Panacur C to fight planaria? I’m still weighting the pros and cons of this vs no planaria but they both seem to eradicate planaria
Thanks for such important information, Alex. You make a big difference.
Aww no problem. Just hoping to save people the stress and heartache. I hope it can :) have a great week!
🥺 That is so sad....I just treated with No Planaria last Saturday for hydra & planaria. Best of luck to you, Alex! Thanks for the great information as always!
Right on. Good luck to you too!
Is No Planaria really helpful ? Will it really kill all Planaria
I have an insane rate of reproduction for my blue velvet shrimp, but planaria were recently spotted in the tank.
I'd Dose it with a little "no planaria" maybe a half dose there's a link to it pinned in the comments if you want to use a quick affiliate link.
The other thing you could do is only feed them a few pellets or whatnot on a Glass petri dish you leave in only in the day...over time they starve
How did that work out for you, Aaron?
After treating the tank some people say do a gravel vac but I have lots of babies I can't do that . What should I do ? I'm new to shrimp
Sorry about the shrimp. Such a loss. Thx for the info.
Np thanks
Thank you for the vid Alexander. Great stuff as always !
My pleasure!
Sad to see that shrimp in those conditions , I have seen some long little worms in my shrimp tank , I am going to take care of them right away .. Tks for sharing.
Yeah it can happen fast
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Yeah I had finally decided to get rid of them last week and ordered 3 packs of panacur c via Amazon. The worms were present in the tank for about a year but it had gotten to the point the tank was unsightly. I dosed only once for a 15 gal neo tank. I mixed the packet in a 500ml bottled water and used a syringe and did some math. one pack treats 100 gallons. all the planaria were dead within 48 hrs and the shrimp, fish and pest snails were not affected by it at all
Awesome to hear!
They are harmless if you don't breed fish or have shrimp. They work well at keeping snail population down and don't blow up. RIP if you like shrimp and fry.
How To Culture Paramecium??
I have a whole video on it
@@Fishtory nice! ;)
And they will eat your fish eggs!
Yes, true. Thank you.
somehow I've been lucky enough to have never had planaria . is there any fish that eat them ?
Any fish that can fit it in its mouth
From my experience, they might taste really bad. I've seen my bettas, white clouds, black neons among others, attack them and spit them out. They probably taste as bad as they look.
Most fish will eat them actually (they just have to be hungry, I don't think they taste good. The majority of fish spit em out the first few attempts)
Yea I try not to treat my dirted tanks tanks with anything, but No Planaria is pretty much a must. Seems to be completely harmless to everything else and extremely effective. Never have another issue.
Yeah it's just 100% betel nut extract ... which I think is a vasoconstrictor like nicotine or caffeine... causing the worms to dehydrate and constrict. But it can kill snails too
@@Fishtory Good to know, I've never had it kill a snail of mine tho. Nerites, trumpet, ramshorn, assassin snails all been fine. I'll keep that in mind tho.
They pretty much wiped out my colony of yellow neos. Now I dose No Planaria if I ever see one of the little buggers.
Yeah, that stuff works miracles
I had a female that also got stunned like that last week. She died within 30 minutes after becoming imobile. She didnt recover after i removed her from the tank and into a specimen container.
Sorry to hear that. Bummer
I just pulled one off of my fish. Homey was on his chin for like a week.
That may have been what they call a fluke, or even a leach ...but planaria are super similar
The second I saw planaria I got no planaria, I'm currently dosing and doing a water change atm. Already took my snails out.
Thank you for this info! I never knew they could be bad. Vary informational!
Sure thing. I'm glad you learned the easier way haha
Does planaria harm nerite snails?
They can if in large numbers.
@@Fishtory I only noticed my 1st planaria worm yesterday & some real small ones. I believe they came in on java moss that I obviously didn't treat properly. I sucked 2 out with my tanks turkey baster. If I catch them soon enough is it possible to remove them all by baster or do I still need No planaria? I read somewhere they can go inside nerites shell. I am so upset, my nerite is going on 4 years old and first time dealing with planaria & just had vorticello too😡
Won't pan cure c dog dewormer also kill the planaria
No unfortunately it is not a true worm, (I mean enough of those meds will kill just about anything lol) but "no planaria" will kill them all and keep them gone for 6 months or more...with a tiny amount (less than the package Even says.) If you want to try it out, I linked it in the description and pinned it. Best of luck!
My guppies never wanted to touch these even when starved. I guess they taste very bad.
Had a bloom last summer, I manually removed as many as I could.
It seems everytime I was feeding flakes for a couple of days in a row the problem got worse. Now I give flakes only 1 or 2 times a week and I don't see them anymore (they must be regrouping hahah😂).
Yeah ive noticed they either taste bad or sting...because many fish spit them out....pencilfish , loaches, mollys and some livebearers seem to try 2 or 3 times and then gulp em down lol
Same for Adult Scuds if they outnumber the "Prize Pet"......just a different way for the Prize to die.
Good point
Hello I am a couple weeks into my natural ecosystem journey mostly going off of you and Father Fish for guidance. I have a question regarding Planaria. I have a jar thats maybe a month old from a local lake. It is absolutly loaded with a cloud of micro organisms. I would like to add some of the leaves etc into my new planted dirt tank. But there are also Planaria in that jar. (Stomach in center triangular head.) Can I use a turkey baster and add some of the micro organisms into my 116 dirted tank? I am not finding any benifits to having Planaria in there. I want to get a start on that food chain. I won't have breeding shrimp in this tank. Eventually I will have loads of tiny fish though. Like to see them breed. Anyway this was long winded. Thanks for all your great videos and knowledge. Take care!
That's what i tend to do. Planeria baby cells can be on any plant and honestly, boiling them is the only 100% sure way to prevent planeria. However, not introducing a bunch...or visible sized ones...and not over feeding or letting food go to the bottom for more than 5 minutes max...is your best bet . They tend to end up in all tanks eventually...at least in my part of the country. And if there arent snails in the tank that you are worried about...the product "no planeria" is an all natural beetel nut extract that does a great job
Ahh man I dont want to kill my snails!
Is all tiny worms on glass are planaria ? I had some planaria, long time ago, in another tank, but now what I got is way smaller. I am unable to see any triangle head, or anything, even with magnifier. I have put traps, for weeks, I get nothing. But still, there is tiny tiny flat worms on my glass
I don't think so. sounds lice paramecium or detritus worms while young
Hope she makes it..... thanks for the info Alex
Thank you. I moved them all...I was filming and moved them all into one tank, but separated all the shrimp after that night.
I’ve got snail leeches weird little things they nearly wiped out my ramshorn and mts. But after doing more gravel vacuuming there aren’t as many and my population bounced back….. I would like to get rid of them completely but I’ve heard that no planaria kills snails and I haven’t wanted to touch that and just keep up with gravel vac and water changes
Yeah do whatever works for you. But no planaria can be half dosed and usually most the snails survive
I just got to see this video after I found tiny worms in my tank that I didn’t recognize compared to my detritus worms or rhabdocoela; so THANK YOU. They seemed like juveniles that probably hitch-hiked from new fish I recently added, but I’ll be sucking them out with a baster as I see them!
Turkey baster is my best friend lol
Did the orange rili make it? She looks ok in this video but appears to be completely stunned. I don't know if they have a vagus nerve like the rest of us, but that is the behavior of a complete shutdown of the vagus.
No sadly she died 3 days later :(
No Planaria is really the best, though I feel bad for the snail casualties.
100%... I move the snails (ammonia can spike ...beyond it just being a waste of healthy happy snails)
I've been avoiding No Planaria because of my nerite snails, but have been noticing more of my shrimp losing eggs and dying in one tank. How long do the snails have to be out of the tank for it to be safe?
So sad I had a pleco lay 100 eggs and they all hatched into a personal 20 gallon and I noticed a worm and started Doing a water change and saw about 30
Oh man... double check it wasn't snails. That would be fast for planaria...but it's possible
I was really hoping planaria would be harmless in my community tank with fish and snails, and at first they just seemed unsightly, but then they started taking out my panda cory eggs, so now I have a problem with them. I was hesitant to treat the tank due to the snail population, but I think it’s time. Thanks for the info!
For sure. Try "no planaria" off amazon for the best med that kills planaria and hydra but not shrimp,.as long as dosed correctly
@@Fishtory thanks! Just ordered some
Ahhh yes I remember my first time seeing planaria and how shocked I was to see them happily slugging along after a bleach dip… It was horrifying 😅
Lol
If "no plania" kills snails how do you protect your snails?
I actually grab them all and put them in a jar or extra tank for a week or two
Thank you. If I ever have a problem I'll do that.
#NotAllPlanaria
Bahhaah
I also need to deworm a few tanks also
Noticing quite a few similar looking worms in my own 5g. Very possible they came in with the water from my mosquito buckets. I can’t tell if mine are actually planarian or just another variety of flatworm, maybe even roundworm. They don’t have the classic arrow shaped head, nor can I see that “cross eyed” eyespots when I use my macro lens. All the same, I have been seeing fewer shrimplets and a few of my snails have been dying off.. not sure if that’s related though. I don’t have access to no planaria so either way I’m stuck with my lot. Still wish I knew 100% what it is I’m dealing with
Triangular head and a mouth that looks like an oval dot on their stomach is how to confirm planaria. Fish love all other detritus worms ...some loaches and guppies will eat planaria if no flake food is available too ... detritus worms are like a gift though, almost all fish love those
@@Fishtory Unfortunately the only fish I’ve got stocked is a single betta, and he’s not interested in detritus worms, I think they’re just too small a prey item to intrigue him. Like I say, can’t see an arrow shaped head or really on oval mouth, but I’m hardly an expert. I’ve heard planarians can’t swim, would that be a good tool for identification?
Glad to find this episode.
Sure thing! Have a great week
Although I hve no prior experience with planaria , I hve first hand experience with seed shrimp killing my neo caridina and stripping them of their eggs...any thoughts?
So I'm guessing you mean scuds? The little 4 legged looking (they have 6 I think, but 2 that look like arms more?)... seed shrimp are a group of creatures that don't get larger than the tip of a sharp pencil, scuds get the length of a pencil eraser in some species/cases... but are a shape high can make out, rather than a white dot like seed shrimp.
Are those what you mean? Google images will show up "aquarium bugs scuds" or "aquarium scuds shrimp" ...otherwise you'll get photos of missiles probably haha
@@Fishtory actually they are classified as ostrocods ,they look more like a clam with hard outer shell under microscope most fishes try to eat them and spit them out bcse of their hard shell, and it's very difficult to iradicate them from the tanks...
I don't see any hard evidence here. This just seems like correlation, not causation. I still have yet to see a video of a planaria actually harming a healthy shrimp. I have had productive colonies with planaria so they aren't devastating, just as I've had colonies with fish, which I have seen eat shrimp.
Well all my baby shrimp are gone. But I understand what your saying... watch my video of planarja eating guppy fry though...that was sad
@@Fishtory I searched your channel and didn't see it, just the angel one. I won't deny that they could harm or eat a sick, immobile, or dead fish. But they won't harm a healthy swimming fish or shrimp in my experience. Hydra have been a much bigger threat to my shrimp colonies than planaria. I appreciate having detritivores and microfaunal biodiversity to really season a tank and using no planaria I'd a quick way to nuke all of that and do more harm to your tank than the planaria were. I would be interested to see a controlled test of shrimp production in a tank seeded with planaria and one that gets regular no planaria doses though, I just don't believe anecdotal evidence as there're are so many factors, you don't know that the shrimp didn't just kick out some bad eggs which absolutely can happen, or any of hundreds of other possible explanations.
So that's what killed my shrimps! Thank you for the info on these dirty little buggers. Time to clean out the tank and start new 2 shrimp left
No problem. Google that "no planaria " product from japan and use as directed, dosing at night since light degrades it...then 3 or 4 days later do a few water changes day 5 , 6 and 7....it works really well...just gotta be a little patient
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Thank you for the information, i will follow up with the product from Japan. I'm Googleing it now! 😊 I have a following question.... what do i do with the live plants i have in the tank? Should i remove them discard? Or keep them in the fresh clean water until i pick up the water treatment ? I also see that they have countless little tiny snails, that are laying eggs all over the tank very tiny snails? open too any suggestions you may have on this infestation matter. Thank you very much for your time it is appreciated 🙏 😊 👍
I seen a worm in my tank I didn’t get to see it closely but I added 3 young celestial Pearl danios because I’ve heard they eat them I think that’s why I haven’t seen any shrimplets already have guppies in there ima feed them less and they just hunt them all off hopefully
It could be the cpd's eating brand new baby shrimp too...they both hide and skim the bottom a lot. So unless the shrimp have rock piles, moss or very thick vegetation, the cpds will eat the 1- 3 week old shrimp sometimes
@@Fishtory I have a pile of rocks and some moss and trying to grow a lot of jungle Val to fill in the tank so the fry and shrimp have a place to hide
Thanks Alex ! I placed my order with the link in your description. I can’t believe that they can even kill my ottos. I found one covered with planeria. I really shouldn’t have waited so long. Thanks again for the great info !
Of course! I hope it works well for you... mix it in a cup ahead of time and add it right before lights out (most shrimp keepers recommend a water change the next day about 12 to 15 hours after it settles...don't disturb the substrate with a vac for the water change though...the poison is in the tiny spaces between stuff and the planaria eat it then die in 12 to 36 hours
Thanks! 👍 good info.
I was just looking for this type of video today. Alex, I so under appreciate you. Please forgive it. Keep doing you man.
Haha no worries. Thanks for dropping a line my friend :)
Haha well I know as I keep on learning and asking questions, I will run into more of your older videos. So thanks in advance .
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“No Planaria” is a great product. The product is actually made in Taiwan.
Oh okay. For some reason I bought it online and it said "made in Japan" online and so I never thought about it again haha. Thank you
@@Fishtory that's odd in the product page. It actually is printed on the package. Sometimes it's hard to distinguish Chinese character and Japanese character.
There is a treatment for them
Destroy them all with betel nut extract?!
Yesterday evening I found something that I think is planaria in one of my aquariums. I have shrimps, snails and Pseudomugil luminatus in that aquarium. I have started a new aquarium where I will be moving all the fish, but now it feels like a good idea to move all the shrimps as well... I just recently was thinking that I didn't had as many shrimps as I thought would be in that aquarium, but also knowing how good they're at hiding and the fact that I have a lot of plants made me not to worry, until now...
However, I've been reading that the planaria can go with the shrimps and the fish to new tanks as well? Is there a big risk that they actually do? I was thinking that I might just move the fish and shrimps to the new aquarium, not put anything in the old one and hope that the planaria will starve to death. But maybe I have to treat everything and also say goodbye to my snails? :( I've also been reading that some fish do eat planaria. I guess my luminatus won't, because they're so small and keeps close to the surface. But maybe a Betta? I've been thinking about getting one since we have a stunning male at my work in the pet store and so far no costumer have bought him...
Alex, is it ok to feed the shrimp during a No Planaria treatment?
Does adding assassin snails help in removing planaria?
Im not sure actually
Awwww, poor thing. Yea those things gotta go 😡
Yup they're dying as we speak
Ive only ever seen these guys right after I set up a tank - maybe comes in in the wood? I always wanted more life in there...but maybe I don't need these guys after all!
Edit; wow that poor shrimp looks really freaked out!
Yeah. The baby planaria sneak in on plants and hardscape then all go wild tor.time.to time
@@Fishtory great video btw - really puts the lid on the "planaria are harmless" talk...
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Thank you for sharing. Scary.
No problem
Been there. Pancur C to the rescue for me.
Yeah it works short term. I've found that "no planaria" keeps them gone for 6 months to a year
Is there any reason to really have a filter in my 5gs for my shrimp?
Um it helps break down waste and oxygenated water/ allows some shrimp to filter feed and grab food from the water column (bamboo or fan shrimp)...but honestly, no. You can raise most without any filter or light even
Thanks 😊
It's the soile type you got planted in your tank that were they coming from.
Or hitchhikering on plants.
Richard bunt I had ordered about 6 plants. When they came in I put them in a bucket with air stone and plant light. After a few days I could see tiny white worms kicking thru the water. They would turn a very light pink by the next day. I kept emptying out the bucket and refilling. Finally I took those plants out of their pots and removed every bit of rock wool. I put the plants back in the bucket for 3 wks and that got rid of them. They do come in on plants!
They hide in the substrate for sure. But don't come in on it
Beautiful orange color
Lol yeah they look even cooler when they eat blue dreams
These guys are a silent pest!
Yeah ... turn the lights on at 4am and you'll find out what's actually in there
@@Fishtory Assuming these guys are hitchhikers from your plants is that right?
Bro get a tripod
I have one but I was juggling a turkey baster, a light and a camera/gimbal to get under the tank, that's on a shelf. Otherwise I could have only shot straight on with the shrimp tank
@@Fishtory LOL understandable, and apologies if I came off condescending it was late. awesome video
Idk I've actually had them in my old shrimp tank & nothing has happened to my shrimps
I guarantee they ate some of the baby shrimp. They should have 20 to 50 babies each pregnancy (did you keep that many babies?)
@@Fishtory had that many once but moving & they all died on me
I don’t know anything about planaria. But how have you eliminated all other factors here? What if they like vultures? Or maybe whatever factor that causes them to appear is harming ur shrimp? There may certainly be a correlation without the direct causation.
Planaria are predators they go after everything basically...
So they do only start becoming a problem, when you over feed the tank usually. Otherwise they can't survive more than a week without a meal. But as you're saying... bad tank conditions can be the cause of the population increase...but they come in on plants, and their eggs or "cysts" cam even survive in fish stomachs.