Sunsetsearider Posted August 17, 2015 Report Share Posted August 17, 2015 I did a big trim today and tonight I noticed a couple of worms in my feeding dish. After pulling it and looking at them with a magnifying glass, they are definitely planeria. I believe this is an issue. If so, does anyone have experience getting rid of them. My shrimp numbers have been decreasing. Thanks JosephKex and MableBile 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaykidding Posted August 17, 2015 Report Share Posted August 17, 2015 Planaria come from over feeding or left over food. Try doing a little bit of food at a time and see what your shrimp can finish in an hour. Also there are many threads about planaria removing... its somewhere here that i read about 2 days ago. But people reccomend a dog dewormer if i remember. If im wrong someone please correct me Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaykidding Posted August 17, 2015 Report Share Posted August 17, 2015 yup read the fenbendazole and shrimp thread in the care,feeding, and breeding section. You can have many people tell you their experiences about things they use to remove planaria, and if it works or not Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sunsetsearider Posted August 17, 2015 Author Report Share Posted August 17, 2015 Thanks. I got some shrimp foods recently and have been giving it too them too much. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaykidding Posted August 17, 2015 Report Share Posted August 17, 2015 Yup don't do that. Better to under feed than over feed. It's ok though you learned. So all you need to do is find the right planarian killer. For me I used to have a bunch of planaria, when I was observing my tanks daily I used to pick the huge ones with some tweezer. And then all of a sudden they all disappeared so now I have no more planaria. Shrimpy Daddy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shrimpy Daddy Posted August 17, 2015 Report Share Posted August 17, 2015 If there is only a few, just suck them out with tube or pipette. If your environment is balanced and not over-fed, they will disappear (to be exact, they will live inside the substrate and never come out until something is wrong again). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DETAquarium Posted August 17, 2015 Report Share Posted August 17, 2015 I definitely agree with all that has been said so far, use a planaria trap or No-Planaria by Genchem, both work well depending on the abundance of planaria. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sunsetsearider Posted August 17, 2015 Author Report Share Posted August 17, 2015 Thanks for the advice. Do they attack the shrimp? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaykidding Posted August 18, 2015 Report Share Posted August 18, 2015 I dont think they attack adult shrimps, but for big planaria maybe i think, they attack baby shrimplets Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
35ppt Posted August 18, 2015 Report Share Posted August 18, 2015 Read up a bit on the biology of planaria. If you do indeed have them, handpicking is not 100% effective. I suggest a trap to determine if you do have them (you can pull the tube out and get a real good look at them) and then dose chemicals when you have confirmed they are planaria. If you cut back on feeding, and trap and handpick, you can probably keep the numbers down, but it is likely there will still be some in the tank. Also keep in mind, if you have been overfeeding this will affect water quality, and could be a factor in shrimp losses. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maylee Posted August 18, 2015 Report Share Posted August 18, 2015 and make absolutely sure they are planaria and not detritus or rhabdocoela worms arrow/triangular shaped head = planaria Otherwise, it's probably something else Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sunsetsearider Posted August 18, 2015 Author Report Share Posted August 18, 2015 Thanks, They are definately planaria. I caught two of them in a food dish and looked at them with a magnifying glass. I have slowly been loosing shrimp. My parameters are good. I've only over fed the last week or 2 after I got some nice shrimp foods. I just started using the dish and that's the reason I saw the worms. I also lagged an extra week on a water change and my tank was overgrown with lots of dead stuff in the shade, so maybe the disruption and better circulation got them out in the open I pulled my snails and added some Fenbendazole at a little under .1g/10 Gal. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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