planaria in fry tank

[MamaPish]

while I was taking closeups of the fry, I noticed planaria on the sides of the tank....a couple larger ones, but mostly small....will these be of danger to my fry? How do I get rid of with without hurting the fry?

Could this be what has caused most of my fry to die?

TIA

 

[MamaPish]

*bump*

 

[wetwetwet]

Trish there's been a couple of threads recently about planaria.....

....generally they are not considered a danger but they tend to indicate a lack of maintenance/water changes or possably also overfeeding - and as I'm sure you're aware fry tend to need excellent water conditions...


hth

 

[LesGerber]

I would have to agree with Wet, and I think the root of the problem comes from people being afraid to clean the gravel in fry tanks. What I do is when I go to do a water change in my fry tanks, I stir up the gravel some and get the stuff floating around. Then when I take out the 3 or 4 gallons I get part of the stuff from the bottm of the tank. I have always been worried about the fry getting sucked up the vac so I found this way helps me some


HTH


Les

 

[semper fi]

that is why alot of breeder tanks are bare bottom. no real need for gravel. had a heck of a time with a convict tank with the fry getting all into the gravel.


someone else posted awhile ago about planaria and sasid that they had a fish that loved to eat it. will have to find it.

semper fi

 

[Cameljoe0]

I had the same problem until I happened to buy some feeder goldfish. The goldfish ate the planaria B) The problem occured in my 55 gal tank with an Oscar and a jack Dempsey.

 

[MamaPish]

Thanks wet......I had already checked the other post, didn't find anything about fry.

My fry tank has a bare bottom, and has only been set up for about 3 weeks....the angel fry are only 12 days old (from spawn) and barely the size of newborn guppies.

I feed frozen BBS and clean the bottom of the tank 2 times a day, and do small water changes at least every 2 days.

The sponge filter that is in the tank was hooked up in the parents tank for a month before transfering it to the fry tank.....I am guessing this is how the got in......but I didn't notice them in the parents tank, and I gave it a good clean and added new gravel a few days ago, and I don't see any there now.

My biggest concern was to my fry....I have lost several hundred, and I thought I had read somewhere that they will attack very young fry, I have 50-75 fry left, and just wanted to know if there was anything I could get to kill the planaria without harming the fry.

Thanks all....