I feed minimum once daily(morning) per 4ft tank. They get a combination of ADA original red bee squares x 3(broken up)' date=' a couple of [b']large pinches of Genchem's 'White Pellet' and same amount of Biomax. I alternate ADA and Shirakura tablets. At night, I put in fresh Kale (latest craze, they love it), boiled for about 20 seconds then weighted to sink. If it's gone by the next night they then will get either Zucchini, Pumpkin or Baby Spinach and so on. Lately (last few weeks) I've been replacing the manufactured food with the veges in the morning. I haven't noticed any change in their behaviour thus far. Loaches (like Clown loaches, Zebra Botia, Macracantha Botia loaches) will go straight after the snails. Yoyo (or Pakistani) loach is a hit or miss. In some cases, they will erase all your snails, while in others they will not pay any attention to them. Many Macrobrachium shrimp species are eating snails too. Some species of Macrobrachium shrimp (for example, Machrobrachium Lanchesteri (Whisker shrimp)) can be so aggressive that it is not advisable to keep them even with small (slow) fish. Obviously, they are not compatible with dwarf shrimp as well. Also, they grow significantly larger than the Rhabdocoela flatworms – another type of aquarium flatworm.

On the left, you have a planarian – its tell-tale trianglular head makes it easy to spot. On the right, you have a rhabdocoela which has a rounded head. I would like to start off by saying that one of the most important things to understand about the common pests snails (or any snails) is that they often grow to the bio-load in our tanks. I knew little about these snails and asked on here for advice. Troi recommended eSHa Gastropex however I haven't tried it. (I bumped the thread on it as I'm hopeless at linking threads!) Also dw1305 recommended baiting with cucumber to keep the numbers with cucumber to control their numbers. Crush snails with your finger and your shrimp will eat them. Shrimp like protein and calcium. They are crucial to their molting process.

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Place the fish bag in a cool, corner, and dark place. Prevent the bag from being bumped, slipped, or dropped. This'll give your new fish a good recovery and acclimatization after a shaky ride from the shop to your home. Fish are not under threat of getting killed by Planarians and some species can be predators of the flatworm. Adding the right fish is a great effective control without resorting to chemicals. Fish big enough to eat hydra directly are probably going to bother your shrimp, but micro fish will help by eating the mini-beasts and hence starving out the hydra.

My 'incident' with the heater caused the new trial to not work and I don't really know why to this day? I don't think there was anything wrong with the setup or tank, it worked before the incident well and I used all new stuff except the tank. It has put me off trying again so that tank is still empty and I keep looking at it thinking I should try again (then I think of what that involves), but after the last attempt failing for some unknown reason I can't get the incentive to try again as it is such a long, expensive, time consuming process which may just fail again! It is very frustrating, as you know, when you can't work out why it fails and everything seems 'ideal'. In addition to having a head adapted to detect currents of water, they also have two very obvious eyes that you’ll see if you witness an adult moving over a glass surface. If snails are to be removed, can they live in a floating bag with some thing to hold onto for a few days (for heat purposes? Anyhow, visit the aforementioned link to compare all of the differences between Planaria, Rhabdocoela, and Detritus nematodes. Are planaria worms harmful to shrimp and fish?Repeat it daily until you see that you have not caught anything. Normally you only have to repeat it three times and that it as simple as that. White planaria, on the other hand, eat small worms, shrimp and even live foods such as daphnia or bloodworms. If your tank has an abundance of food for white planaria, you will soon see them multiply in number. Are planaria dangerous? Make sure there is not a lot of excess food in the gravel for your snails to eat. Use feeding dishes (here is my article about it). They are meet eaters, maybe even canibalistic and eat their own dead as well. But eat anything that contains proteine. If you don't see them in the light they don't do harm, they do cleanup.. If you see them on the glass can be an unsightly look. But as said, than you have a huge number in the substrate. Than be carefull with using chemicals or what so ever to kill them.. A treat will leave you with a ton of dead worms in the substrate, fauling and rotting away. This can cause ammonia issues leaching from the substrate and maybe some bacterial issues, bacteria living of rotting meet is nasty stuff. Than after a succesfull planaria genocide it's advisable to do a lot of extra water changes for quite some time. Using a vacuum bell syphon to give the substrate a good clean will definitively help.