Planaria in a Shrimp Tank? Planaria Trap Tips and Tricks [Do they work?]
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- čas přidán 26. 07. 2024
- Planaria Trap Tips and tricks? The answer is, YES they absolutely do work. You load up the planaria trap with fish food and wait patiently for the planaria to fill the container. Now, I've been told to leave the trap in the tank, in my experience this is a bad idea as they all end up climbing out of the trap over night. Now for the tip as to what food to use, planaria THRIVE on eating shrimp, so in that case, I fill the traps with shrimp wafers, brine shrimp, etc. This is how I have always kept this 55 gallon as free of planaria as i possibly can. Especially with my large amount of shrimp reproduction. Me personally, I cannot stand the planaria. Another tip to handling planaria is having fish that will eat them, but wont eat the shrimp. This is the complicated part, hence why I'm using a 55 gallon so the shrimp can spread out and my corydoras won't be able to eat them all.
and I just happen to have a bunch of brine shrimp I can put in those traps. Thanks so much for this tutorial. Let's bag some Planaria!
GET EM!!!
For anyone doing this now, just a heads-up that it's easier/faster to put the bait directly into the cap instead of into the trap and then knocking it into the cap anyways, also it only gets your bait in the cap instead of spread around.
Yea….or they can do it however they want really and get the same exact result lmao. But thanks for the advice that we already explained and even implemented as well as roughly 30 other ways to catch planaria too
Wow! Looks like they do work well. About to use my first one! Thanks for the vid.
You’re welcome! It definitely doesn’t get all of them the first try but man do you catch a lot!!!
Love the Ric Flair action "WHOOOO!!"
Hahahaha!!
Cool, I'm going to have to find some of those traps.
Amazon and eBay
I wish I knew about the traps when I had my tank.
I almost trashed the tank then I found out about them
Thank you for this video. For the first time ever I have ones that like inch around the tank and are greyish in color. I will buy the frozen brine and the planaria traps. Keep your fingers crossed.
If that doesn’t work, I just posted a video using a specific planaria treatment called NO-Planaria that will wipe them out
@@AquatikGuru thank you
You’re welcome
I've just ordered one of those traps for my tank. I'm wondering how long a period would you suggest to use the trap? I'm just worried about the bait fouling up the water column. Thanks. Great video by the way 👏
I just watch til it’s full of planaria then I remove it rinse it out and repeat as needed to get as many planaria as possible. I don’t leave it for more than 12 hours as it starts to stink badly after that
@@AquatikGuruboil them dead before rinsing out!
Do you think one can elimiate all the planaria worms using traps? My 1st trapping session (two traps) yielded hundreds of worms from my 40g breeder.
I used to think so. The issue is there’s always unhatched eggs somewhere waiting to release another hoard haha. For roughly a year I’ve been using only the traps and I recently resorted to testing and using NO-Planaria to finish the rest of the population.
@@AquatikGuru Did you remove the shrimp and snails before using the NO Planaria?
Another toxin free planaria solution is using adult male endlers. I had a planaria problem a few months back and added a few endlers to my nano tanks. After 2 weeks, no feeding and constant water changes I stopped seeing planaria. They might eat a few babies but they grow so fast and hide so Planaria is the main meal of choice.
Yea i tried the same with corydoras. Worked well for a while. But as soon as I removed the Cory’s there were hundreds of planaria so I’m assuming they just hid in the substrate
@@AquatikGuru yeah, it's not a 100% permanent fix. But it works pretty well for small tanks. With underfeeding and water changes you're able to cut the population down significantly.
Planaria is horrible and anything that helps is good lol
Why not put directly into the cap?
I tried both and this way seemed to lure more in
@@AquatikGuru like it leaves a residue? I'm just wondering why you put it in the bottle then shake it into the lid. You could just put it in the lid
No I mean it brings more of them in the trap for me if it’s in the lid and the bottle
Will this work on detritus worms as well?
To my knowledge I have not caught any personally.
Do your corridor's eat shrimp?
Not that I have seen. That being said, I’m sure they’ve picked of plenty of babies and I haven’t noticed.
How long do u wait before removing I waited to long and they swam back out
I constantly keep an eye on it. I’d say roughly 2-3 hours or so
@@AquatikGuru word many thanks!
No problem
Anyone had success using this with frozen bloodworms?
Yes I also used daphnia
Looks like at that point you might as well remove the substrate and start over
Yea pretty much haha. Or you can dose no planaria and wipe out the tank essentially. It’ll kill all the snails but if you trap majority of the snails and remove them it works very well.
@@AquatikGuru Does it kill all of them, or do they come bacK?
@@conman20000 it killed all of mine off. But there’s always a chance there’s eggs so I always recommend to monitor the tank. Within 3-5 days you’ll see zero of them tho. But check back weekly after that to verify
I think I have planaria? Bigger than detritus worms, a little too small than what I'm seeing from others. Used trap anyway, bait I used brine shrimp, shrimp pellets, betta pellets, tadpole food (high protein). I have one and my tank is only 5.5 gallons, moved it around the tank. 2nd day, changed the type of bait, still nothing.
edit: I only have one mystery snail and one nerite snail too. so don't have critters/fish that would eat those worms.
I would recommend trying to search planaria vs detritus worms on google for a photo reference of what they look like. Then if possible, use your camera phone and try to get photos of the worm and compare them. It can be difficult to tell without a close up photo of what you’re dealing with
@@AquatikGuru Further research, and using a magnifier glass, confirmed detritus worm. 👍