Planaria can harm your shrimp!

hmm abt a month ago i bought my chiller n connect it to my tank... the nxt morning i see almost all the worms r floating on the surface of water... does the sudden decrease in tank temp kills them as well? i'm just curious..

[dkk08]

Originally Posted by Aria

Hey thanks guys for being the 'guinea pigs' and updating us on your findings. Much appreciated

I'm curious as to a number of things hope you can enlighten me:

1. When the Planaria die do they just float to the water surface for easy removal?

2. How do you determine dosage or are you experimenting?

3. Are the shrimplets affected at all?

I hear that Planaria do not just all die with a single treatment - please do update us on your continual progress

Thanks

1. When the Planaria die do they just float to the water surface for easy removal?
Ans: I'm not sure if they all float to the surface or some are dead and buried or eaten by snails or shrimps at the bottom

2. How do you determine dosage or are you experimenting?
Ans: I'm definitely still in experimenting stage, but so far so good... will continue with similar dosage today, yesterday too busy to meddle with the tank

3. Are the shrimplets affected at all?
Ans: from wat i can see nope, I still see the sakuras shrimplets moving around, fyi there're some as young as 3 weeks old only

Originally Posted by nutfrenz

hmm abt a month ago i bought my chiller n connect it to my tank... the nxt morning i see almost all the worms r floating on the surface of water... does the sudden decrease in tank temp kills them as well? i'm just curious..

Hmm interesting... it could be the sudden drop in water temperature bah because lots of people with chillers raising CRS has the same peoblem

Originally Posted by dkk08

1. When the Planaria die do they just float to the water surface for easy removal?
Ans: I'm not sure if they all float to the surface or some are dead and buried or eaten by snails or shrimps at the bottom

2. How do you determine dosage or are you experimenting?
Ans: I'm definitely still in experimenting stage, but so far so good... will continue with similar dosage today, yesterday too busy to meddle with the tank

3. Are the shrimplets affected at all?
Ans: from wat i can see nope, I still see the sakuras shrimplets moving around, fyi there're some as young as 3 weeks old only

Thanks for you're continual updates its indeed very helpful information for us Its good news indeed the shrimplets are unaffected

Re Planaria dying in the water and perhaps burried in the substrate do consider doing small daily WC ya? I have read that the toxic slime from Planaria gets into the water when they die. Not sure if its true but think its better to be safe

So did you just go to Guardian and ask for Zentel? Wonder if its different from Vermex from lfs

[dkk08]

Originally Posted by Aria

Thanks for you're continual updates its indeed very helpful information for us Its good news indeed the shrimplets are unaffected

Re Planaria dying in the water and perhaps burried in the substrate do consider doing small daily WC ya? I have read that the toxic slime from Planaria gets into the water when they die. Not sure if its true but think its better to be safe

So did you just go to Guardian and ask for Zentel? Wonder if its different from Vermex from lfs

Hey sis, yes I went to Guardian and ask for Zentel in liquid form as they've it in pill form too...

Another update today, no sign of shrimps casualties, but more signs of worms casualties, this time I added another 0.05ml of Zentel yesterday night. But I think my tank size have a part to play too coz its 2.5ft cube. If you wanna add to nano tanks I think will have to seriously trial and error