I have a hydra infestation in a tank where no small foods are fed... I feed flakes and small pellets but for a hydra the pellets are huge lol. I wonder what happened XD
I tried to put my pea puffers in a 10 gallon to try and get rid of them maybe breed and I woke up checked on them and they were pale white looked like they were on their death bed I put them back in my 55 and a day later they perked up didn’t loose any but I freaked me out I tried mollies and everything he said In this video and nothing has worked…
Im the kind of aquarist that want to see all of these creatures in my tank at least one time, and they doesnt bother me, as long as the tank is natural and healty, it can grow algae, snails, hydra, anything :3
I was like you until the hydra covered all my plants and glass. Also how everytime i fed my shrimp, the food would get swarmed by snails covering it all not leaving room for the shrimp
Great video. Never yet had them in all the years and up till I saw this video, was dreading the day I eventually do get them. If Cory is relaxed about them then so am I am, no big deal at all. Thanks for sharing the wisdom!!
Thanks so much for the wonderful information. I just saw it in one of my tanks this morning and I was worried if it's harmful or not to my fishes. I love your channel! I always learn a lot!
My mollies love scraping these off the glass, but they're just unsightly as they're all on the glass!! The hydra that is, i love seeing my little mollies haha
Thank you for the cool attitude. Actually informing us instead of freaking us out like the others do. I got rid of an outbreak just by stopping feeding for 3 days. Those guppy have cleaned the entire tank for me 🤝
Man, the timing of this video couldnt be any better.. noticed these in my five gallon betta tank and didn't know what they were.. was about to post a pic on reddit. now not only do i know what they are but how to get rid of them!! Ty Cory!! P.S. ty for making easy green and iron available up here in Canada thru Amazon!! Hands down best products I've used!!
The world of micro fauna is simply fascinating. I noticed many cool species in my cherry shrimp tank. I drop an endler or two in there from time to time and they gorge on them!
They can be. If you have a large enough bloom and not enough grazing space for a baby heavy neo cardia shrimp colony. Other wise they don't really harm tanks.
Have you tested dosing with panacur-c. Thats what i use when i see them pop up and it destroys them. I do 1 packet into a store water bottle at half a coop shot glass per 20 gallons till its gone. Used it in my shrimp tank and in my tank with khuli loaches no issue. I think rob from flip aquatics used panacur c aswell before. But great vid didnt know fish ate them aswell
How about Getting rid of the ones in our bodies from rainwater and from jabbers? Thanks. What I know of them is they are basically immortal due to the high concentration of stem cells on the body, over 70% stem cells.
@@simodelafrog3690 Yea I got some NAC a couple weeks ago while u can still get it here in the uk but I believe there's certain places where its illegal to buy now. So if ur in the uk I'd stock up😂
Detox Detox Detox. Take your Bitters! Sound and water Frequency healing Tur Pen Tine. Borax. Zeolite. Iver Mec Tin. Bentonite Clay. Diatomaceous Earth. Sulfur Based Glandular Cleansing ❤Good luck everybody❤
Year 2020 has got me so into aquariums,I'm needing these videos now ,I'm really getting alone without these,yes there's other channels on yt about Aquariums I watch ,but nothing ever made made realize that it's all so easy and if not easy y'all are there to make it !😭
I de stocked a tank and hydra have taken over. Never seen them before in the 10 years that I've had this tank going. I'll try livebearers. Thanks Coopy
I used half the "internets-recommended" panacur dose and it wiped out my massive hydra infestation in three days with one treatment. Yay!. Problem? I can't have nerites in this tank now. Months later and the tank is still toxic to them. Pond snails and shrimp are fine, but nerites die. The reason is that panacur's active ingredient is not water soluble. It never dissolves, so some amount of it will be settled in your tank for quite a long time, even though you can't see it.
Interesting I haven't had any yet but I always wondered where they came from. Thanks for sharing Cory. Good info! I hope you have a great weekend 👍🌿🐟🌿💚
Corey, you rock man. I have taken your approach on tank infections many times and now get a kick out of seeing hydra just before I introduce some hungry lil nano fish lol
@@fishlover4680 no mate it did not harm any of my shrimp or snails as I was also wary of it after doing research. Just don't over dose, better to under dose and complete a couple of medications
The anemone can inject Neuro toxin into human organs. For all those that take the prune juice some might go rouge or become dissident to party line. The Elites are teraforming the earth but they need slaves. Every batch of jarasite is tracked by neurolink satelite. When the Grand master wants to cleanhouse, so to speak, plausible deniability..
Just got my first order from aquarium coop, my anubias nana came in great!! And my intake sponge is working great so far!! Very happy (my anubias is very cute)
@@megedlond184 over the last couple of months, they just kind of dwindled away. I have been siphoning the top of the gravel more carefully than ever too, so that might have reduced the amount of detritus organisms that the hydra prey on??
Yep, don't use copper personally, since I've also got shrimp and other inverts. Increasing the size of food helps starve out the hydra, along with adding in some endlers, anabantoids or mollies.
Hello, I have hydra in a shrimp tank with shrimplets in. In my other tanks, I have guppies, dwarf otto’s, pee puffers, amanos…will any of these get rid of hydra?
A saw an adult cherry shrimp get stung by a hydra and then stayed stung for a while. It then eventually died and one of my amano shrimp grabbed it and ate it. If you’ve got shrimp I’d definitely get rid of them
I have them in a tank without any food or livestock at all. It's been cycling for 3 weeks and suddenly I have a ton. Bizarre. Glad they're not too big of a deal though.
I am in the same situation, I am not adding and sources of food yet I had a bunch pop up, do you have any rhabdocoela worms or other micro organisms? I have a theory they might be getting their food from these
Perfect timing on this video! I just noticed Hydra in my Blue Dream Shrimp and Rabbit snail tank for the first time this past Monday. going to hit them with a little H2O2 first and then throw a guppy or 2 in there and see if that helps get the numbers back down
I had an outbreak a couple of years ago and since I had nerite snails and a betta in a 20, I didn't exactly have a ton of choices. So I took everything out, boiled what I could and let the rest soak in scalding water in the tank. It cleared almost all of them out. Was it extreme? Yeah, but I did see my snails getting stung by them. I figured it was maybe from the mosquito larvae I was feeding from my birdbath so I stopped live food. Now, I have a 10 with a betta and billions of bladder snails and during the summer I did drop in a larvae here and there and nothing happened. But Idk what I would do if it happened again, one of my biggest nightmares as a hobbiest so far lol.
really? I dont have a crazy amount, and they dont seem to grow that fast but I have a ton of bladder snails and Ive heard pond and bladder snails will eat them. I sure hope they all get eaten...lol
Just found some in one of my tanks when i was trying to get video of a shrimp to see if she's berried! Ugh. I have a betta, a couple glow light tetra and 3 panda cory, as well as pond n bladder snails. I do have some endlers i couod put in there, wasn't really wanting to get molly's.
I had them I tried everything from spot treating, adding gourami to trying a pair of guppies now my endlers and community neon vtetras, to a whole tank hydrogen peroxide 1hr soak, to now currently trying out No-planaria product that's betel nut stuff. hope this works!
Have these in my axolotl tank what should I do pls help it’s 125 litres but I don’t want to dose chemicals in case it harms my axolotl is there any safe for them it’s quite a big volume so maybe small doses anyway I don’t know pls help I’m struggling with them great vid by the way thanks Corey or any one else who helps
Appreciate the video but idk what to do. Please help? Just found a bad hydra infestation in my 2.5 gallon shrimp tank. Have had a population explosion of shrimplets. In such a small tank I cant add fish that would eat hydra, right? It’s quite full of hardscape and plants too.
I need help and have a question. I just started a 10gal cherry shrimp tank and all is going perfect till I noticed Hydras.... I was recommended these tiny fish I believe are cardinal or Alien green tetras, my question is will they do the job or what should I do because my main reason for this tank is to breed shrimp. It's a 10 gal I have 10 cherry shrimp and about 1 dozen trumpet snails and the 3 tetras
Well they eat teeny newborn bladder/pond snails? I've just noticed at LEAST 20+ in my JUST cycled tank 😩 I don't want fish but I do want a crayfish and a couple apple snails. Would that help? RIP the triops eggs I just put in there 💔
I've got them in my 10 gallon betta tank. I only have my betta in there. And yet there's an outbreak. I feed him a few pellets a day. So I don't understand why I have an outbreak. I'll feed every couple of days so he'll hopefully start eating them
How do you deal with them in a fry tank though? Neither cutting back on tiny foods nor introduction of adult fish is an option. To make things worse, I've got snails breeding in that tank, and shrimp (not breeding, possible because all the hydra?) - so medication is also not an option.
I have them in a 5 gallon so added sparkling gouramis and never seen them eat them at all. Has anyone tried heat to get rid of them like heating up your tank to 90 degrees? (Removing the fish ofcourse)
I'm new to fish keeping. Like I've had my tank for 4 months now. I have live plants and just noticed these white things with 5 flowing legs sticking to the glass. I'm pretty sure that they are hydra. Will tetra and angel fish be alright? Will they eat them?
@@angeliclike3623 Did you ever see the tetras or angelfish eat them? I haven't stocked my tank yet and I might some tetras but I've seen a few hydras and I'm wondering if they would get rid of them
Ok. I have a fresh water pipefish tank - heavily planted with sulawesi shrimp (its pretty awesome). I have removed my pipefish in the past and added 3 spotted gouramis until seemingly hydra is gone. It never is. My pipefish only accept live microfood, bbs, moina etc. I cant simply leave a gourami to live with them because it will out compete my pipefish for the bbs. So tell me, what do i do? These are very sensitive fish i do not want to dose with chems.
I have yet to see fish activitly eat these. I have certain nano predatory fish in my shrimp tank. The hydra are at the surface of the tank. I have cut back on all live nano foods. The only thing that works at killing them is dog dewormer. Which has not effected snails only pond snails. The rams horn and Malaysian snails do not skip a beat. I do pull my rabbit snails when I treat a the tank.
UGH. I just dealt with hydra in my SPARKLING GOURAMI tank, & my shrimp tank. The gourami's didn't eat them, and would be stung by them :( Granted, they're well fed. I ordered No Planaria, which took care of it 😊
@@matthewcutter8760 I had no idea there were so many in my shrimp tank, & I'm pretty sure they ate all the babies I had. it was scary & I had nightmares about them 😂😂 just order no planaria on amazon! :)
My shrimp tank is blooming with Hydra 😑 I have another tank full of guppies and i heard they will eat hydra. I'm worried they'll eat my shrimp too lol but maybe a small guppy would be okay? It's been so hard to find the right answer without using chemicals 😢
Interesting, I have an observation though. My 20 gallon tank doesn't have any fish or shrimp only common snails (it's at the the end of its cycle) so I never added any brine shrimp or other sources of food, yet I have seen a bunch of hydras pop up. I also have a lot of rhabdocoela worms, my theory is that the hydras are eating the rhabdocoela worms because they are so small? Because there aren't any other food sources?
I just saw some of these guys near my filter intake. Tank is 1.5 months old, loads of plants, some bladder and ramshorn snails, but no fish. I don’t put any food in the tank at all. I’m about a week into a bacterial bloom after rescaping it; wasn’t planning to add fish for a little while. So what are these little hydra dudes eating? bacteria in my water column?
I have Hydra in one of my tanks. I haven’t done anything to get rid of it. The tank houses a male Betta, Ember Tetras, Nerites and shrimp. Wonder if Sparkling Gouramis would work in this tank?
Sorry to ask an off topic question here... I have some electric blue rams which are intolerant of nitrates, ammonia and nitrites. I always feel a bit of fear to use liquid fertilizers thinking that it adds nitrates in aquarium and might stress the fish, just in case my plants couldn't utilise it. I use tropica specialized fertilizer. Pls let me know if my fears are valid..
Hydra might be the most blown out of proportion pest in the hobby since bladder snails. Hydra are a sign that your water is clean and your tank’s ecosystem can support life. Too often people’s reaction to finding something in their tank is “how do I get rid of it” instead of “why is it here”
So, now to get rid of them after you got the shot...guess we need some of those fish in our veins! lol
Ivermectin
@@DeathWishGames is it proven
@@1594simonsays they talked about this and discuss it all over on Stew peters show on rumble
😂😂😂
beat me to it lol
Just discovered these in my planted tank and had a mini freak out, haha. Thanks for the help Cory!
Can we get a hydra care guide?
It would be awesome to just have a whole tank of Hydra, I love this sort of thing
@@alyssadavis5128 Fairly simple to get Hydra going. They love cyclops. So, just cultivate cyclops somehow.
I have a hydra infestation in a tank where no small foods are fed... I feed flakes and small pellets but for a hydra the pellets are huge lol. I wonder what happened XD
@@riektherocker6837 overfeeding.
Good video.
I had tons of hydra in a 29, all over glass, plants, filter, even riding on snails. 5 pea puffers eradicated them in only a couple weeks!
I tried to put my pea puffers in a 10 gallon to try and get rid of them maybe breed and I woke up checked on them and they were pale white looked like they were on their death bed I put them back in my 55 and a day later they perked up didn’t loose any but I freaked me out I tried mollies and everything he said In this video and nothing has worked…
I Need Hydra 😑
Haven’t had them yet so good information on getting rid of them.
Same
Im the kind of aquarist that want to see all of these creatures in my tank at least one time, and they doesnt bother me, as long as the tank is natural and healty, it can grow algae, snails, hydra, anything :3
I was like you until the hydra covered all my plants and glass. Also how everytime i fed my shrimp, the food would get swarmed by snails covering it all not leaving room for the shrimp
Wow the beginning of the video was soooo cool, I loved it. Instantly blew me away nicely done
Great video. Never yet had them in all the years and up till I saw this video, was dreading the day I eventually do get them. If Cory is relaxed about them then so am I am, no big deal at all. Thanks for sharing the wisdom!!
I had my tank for 1 year never seen them, I added cherry shrimp and started to add powder food and now I see them. makes sense, thank you.
Thanks so much for the wonderful information. I just saw it in one of my tanks this morning and I was worried if it's harmful or not to my fishes. I love your channel! I always learn a lot!
these are in the solution some docs say
My mollies love scraping these off the glass, but they're just unsightly as they're all on the glass!! The hydra that is, i love seeing my little mollies haha
Thank you for the cool attitude. Actually informing us instead of freaking us out like the others do.
I got rid of an outbreak just by stopping feeding for 3 days. Those guppy have cleaned the entire tank for me 🤝
Man, the timing of this video couldnt be any better.. noticed these in my five gallon betta tank and didn't know what they were.. was about to post a pic on reddit. now not only do i know what they are but how to get rid of them!! Ty Cory!! P.S. ty for making easy green and iron available up here in Canada thru Amazon!! Hands down best products I've used!!
The world of micro fauna is simply fascinating. I noticed many cool species in my cherry shrimp tank. I drop an endler or two in there from time to time and they gorge on them!
First time actually seeing them
Good to know! I haven't had hydra in my tanks before but have gotten the impression that they were very harmful.
They can be. If you have a large enough bloom and not enough grazing space for a baby heavy neo cardia shrimp colony. Other wise they don't really harm tanks.
Have you tested dosing with panacur-c. Thats what i use when i see them pop up and it destroys them. I do 1 packet into a store water bottle at half a coop shot glass per 20 gallons till its gone. Used it in my shrimp tank and in my tank with khuli loaches no issue. I think rob from flip aquatics used panacur c aswell before. But great vid didnt know fish ate them aswell
How about Getting rid of the ones in our bodies from rainwater and from jabbers? Thanks. What I know of them is they are basically immortal due to the high concentration of stem cells on the body, over 70% stem cells.
That's what brought me here 😂
@@lz1385 me too lol...someone said nano silver water..(not coloidal)...or NAC (N-ACETYL- CYSTEINE)
@@simodelafrog3690 Yea I got some NAC a couple weeks ago while u can still get it here in the uk but I believe there's certain places where its illegal to buy now. So if ur in the uk I'd stock up😂
nope not in the jab
Detox Detox Detox.
Take your Bitters!
Sound and water Frequency healing
Tur Pen Tine.
Borax.
Zeolite.
Iver Mec Tin.
Bentonite Clay.
Diatomaceous Earth.
Sulfur Based Glandular Cleansing
❤Good luck everybody❤
Year 2020 has got me so into aquariums,I'm needing these videos now ,I'm really getting alone without these,yes there's other channels on yt about Aquariums I watch ,but nothing ever made made realize that it's all so easy and if not easy y'all are there to make it !😭
I de stocked a tank and hydra have taken over. Never seen them before in the 10 years that I've had this tank going. I'll try livebearers. Thanks Coopy
I used half the "internets-recommended" panacur dose and it wiped out my massive hydra infestation in three days with one treatment. Yay!. Problem? I can't have nerites in this tank now. Months later and the tank is still toxic to them. Pond snails and shrimp are fine, but nerites die. The reason is that panacur's active ingredient is not water soluble. It never dissolves, so some amount of it will be settled in your tank for quite a long time, even though you can't see it.
Interesting I haven't had any yet but I always wondered where they came from. Thanks for sharing Cory. Good info! I hope you have a great weekend 👍🌿🐟🌿💚
Had these once. Interesting to hear different ways to handle them.
Wow, great timing! Was about to start a water change and was wondering how to effectively get rid of them instead of using pond snails.
I tried those too. Starve them of light instead.
Never had them but thanks for the great information on how to get rid of them!!!
Corey, you rock man. I have taken your approach on tank infections many times and now get a kick out of seeing hydra just before I introduce some hungry lil nano fish lol
I have a mad hydra problem in my tank, good timing Aquarium Co-op.
Fenbendazole works pretty alright in my experiences ;D
Panacur c is what you need, dose 0.1g per 10gallons
@@jordanf811 heard it kills shrimp?
@@fishlover4680 no mate it did not harm any of my shrimp or snails as I was also wary of it after doing research. Just don't over dose, better to under dose and complete a couple of medications
@@jordanf811 thanks!
Orrrrrr you could call Captain America...
For a serious outbreak maybe The Avengers...
Good timing for this video. I just had an outbreak and had no idea what to do. Thank you so much for all the educational videos!
Finally someone made a video on this
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Been waiting on this one.
Why is it in the va x...?
The anemone can inject Neuro toxin into human organs. For all those that take the prune juice some might go rouge or become dissident to party line.
The Elites are teraforming the earth but they need slaves. Every batch of jarasite is tracked by neurolink satelite. When the Grand master wants to cleanhouse, so to speak, plausible deniability..
It's not. Physically impossible.
Had a very noticiable outbreak of hydra for a while. 3 Honey Gouramis added into my 29 and they obliterated the hydra
Do gouramis really eat the hydra? Sparkling gouramis as well?
Just got my first order from aquarium coop, my anubias nana came in great!! And my intake sponge is working great so far!! Very happy (my anubias is very cute)
I’ve got Hydra in my betta tank. Thanks for the tip, I might try fasting the betta a bit to see if he tries hunting
Did this work for you? I have hydra in my betta tank too.
@@christinacastine4355No it didn’t work for me unfortunately. I couldn’t use No Planaria either since I have snails in the tank
@@msaimeestay how did you get them out if you have? some just showed up in my betta's tank.
@@megedlond184 over the last couple of months, they just kind of dwindled away. I have been siphoning the top of the gravel more carefully than ever too, so that might have reduced the amount of detritus organisms that the hydra prey on??
Yep, don't use copper personally, since I've also got shrimp and other inverts. Increasing the size of food helps starve out the hydra, along with adding in some endlers, anabantoids or mollies.
How do you get of hydra or planaria worms in a coldwater tank?
I had a really bad outbreak and a pair of apistogramma wiped out literally hundreds overnight!!!
Thanks, very informative!
Please make your videos longer! I need more!!! 😊
Hello, I have hydra in a shrimp tank with shrimplets in. In my other tanks, I have guppies, dwarf otto’s, pee puffers, amanos…will any of these get rid of hydra?
I remember having them once back in the 1970’s, but they were white. They didn’t last but a few days.
I think they were white because they didnt enough food or light
@@lemonblossom0
It depends. There are multiple species of hydra and green ones are only one subcategory.
A saw an adult cherry shrimp get stung by a hydra and then stayed stung for a while. It then eventually died and one of my amano shrimp grabbed it and ate it. If you’ve got shrimp I’d definitely get rid of them
I have them in a tank without any food or livestock at all. It's been cycling for 3 weeks and suddenly I have a ton. Bizarre. Glad they're not too big of a deal though.
I am in the same situation, I am not adding and sources of food yet I had a bunch pop up, do you have any rhabdocoela worms or other micro organisms? I have a theory they might be getting their food from these
@@DoobityDoob Yeah I think I did. I actually added a honey gourami and she took care of the infestation.
I've been lucky enough so far not to have them.. thanks for all the info and advice you give..
How would you rid the human body of them???? Or can you?
A comment on here said dog dewormer killed the ones in the tank, so maybe that’s why the Ivermectin helps people?
2:50 Excellent photography - cute little critters ! :-)
Always fun when your fish/shrimp/snails can take care of the problem in their tank, and meds are not required!
It's pretty deadly to shrimp.
@@enol8603 Yeah, I hope I never encounter them! I wonder what Assasin snails think of hydra?!
That was super helpful thanks.
Perfect timing on this video! I just noticed Hydra in my Blue Dream Shrimp and Rabbit snail tank for the first time this past Monday. going to hit them with a little H2O2 first and then throw a guppy or 2 in there and see if that helps get the numbers back down
Did guppy eat them? Thanks.
Did it work?
I suggest do big water change I did big water change and they all disappeared
I haven’t had this but good info for the future.
Do the sparkling gouramis eat cherry shrimps tho? I love my little shrimps, but don’t want them constantly stung by hydra.
I had an outbreak a couple of years ago and since I had nerite snails and a betta in a 20, I didn't exactly have a ton of choices. So I took everything out, boiled what I could and let the rest soak in scalding water in the tank. It cleared almost all of them out. Was it extreme? Yeah, but I did see my snails getting stung by them. I figured it was maybe from the mosquito larvae I was feeding from my birdbath so I stopped live food. Now, I have a 10 with a betta and billions of bladder snails and during the summer I did drop in a larvae here and there and nothing happened. But Idk what I would do if it happened again, one of my biggest nightmares as a hobbiest so far lol.
really? I dont have a crazy amount, and they dont seem to grow that fast but I have a ton of bladder snails and Ive heard pond and bladder snails will eat them. I sure hope they all get eaten...lol
Thanks! great info as always 😊
Never had a hydra outbreak here in Malaysia
Just found some in one of my tanks when i was trying to get video of a shrimp to see if she's berried! Ugh. I have a betta, a couple glow light tetra and 3 panda cory, as well as pond n bladder snails. I do have some endlers i couod put in there, wasn't really wanting to get molly's.
Thank you for another informative video!
Those gouramis are BEAUTIFUL! I love the blue eyes.
I just noticed it in my tank. I have ember tetras, hull stream loach and the bamboo shrimp. Will any of these eat them?
So you’re saying that with hydra, if you cut off one head two more take it’s place.
yep
They also Asexually clone themselves, but can reproduce sexually as well.
How does one get rid of those which have been injected in the jab.
Hydras are made of 70% stem cells. You can put them in a blender and as long as a piece has one stem cell it can regenerate
@@lisakossik7777 i read 80% somewhere
I had them I tried everything from spot treating, adding gourami to trying a pair of guppies now my endlers and community neon vtetras, to a whole tank hydrogen peroxide 1hr soak, to now currently trying out No-planaria product that's betel nut stuff. hope this works!
Have these in my axolotl tank what should I do pls help it’s 125 litres but I don’t want to dose chemicals in case it harms my axolotl is there any safe for them it’s quite a big volume so maybe small doses anyway I don’t know pls help I’m struggling with them great vid by the way thanks Corey or any one else who helps
Appreciate the video but idk what to do. Please help? Just found a bad hydra infestation in my 2.5 gallon shrimp tank. Have had a population explosion of shrimplets. In such a small tank I cant add fish that would eat hydra, right? It’s quite full of hardscape and plants too.
Spixi snails took them out for me. 3 of them in a 30 gallon, and within a couple weeks I can't find any hydra.
Aaahhh but why get rid of hydra? They're so cute and cool!! High key thinking about getting some and keeping a hydra tank and feeding it brine shrimp
I need help and have a question. I just started a 10gal cherry shrimp tank and all is going perfect till I noticed Hydras.... I was recommended these tiny fish I believe are cardinal or Alien green tetras, my question is will they do the job or what should I do because my main reason for this tank is to breed shrimp. It's a 10 gal I have 10 cherry shrimp and about 1 dozen trumpet snails and the 3 tetras
I just found some in my tank will white cloud minnow or oto’s or Siamese algae eaters eat them?
Well they eat teeny newborn bladder/pond snails? I've just noticed at LEAST 20+ in my JUST cycled tank 😩 I don't want fish but I do want a crayfish and a couple apple snails. Would that help? RIP the triops eggs I just put in there 💔
Aw! The mythical Hydra!
I've got them in my 10 gallon betta tank. I only have my betta in there. And yet there's an outbreak. I feed him a few pellets a day. So I don't understand why I have an outbreak. I'll feed every couple of days so he'll hopefully start eating them
How do you deal with them in a fry tank though? Neither cutting back on tiny foods nor introduction of adult fish is an option. To make things worse, I've got snails breeding in that tank, and shrimp (not breeding, possible because all the hydra?) - so medication is also not an option.
I have them in a 5 gallon so added sparkling gouramis and never seen them eat them at all. Has anyone tried heat to get rid of them like heating up your tank to 90 degrees? (Removing the fish ofcourse)
I'm new to fish keeping. Like I've had my tank for 4 months now. I have live plants and just noticed these white things with 5 flowing legs sticking to the glass. I'm pretty sure that they are hydra. Will tetra and angel fish be alright? Will they eat them?
Update. I bought a few common mollies. They have been eating them as they see them.
@@angeliclike3623 Did you ever see the tetras or angelfish eat them? I haven't stocked my tank yet and I might some tetras but I've seen a few hydras and I'm wondering if they would get rid of them
I really needed this! My fry aquarium is filled with those little monsters
Just noticed some in my shrimp tank today. I've read that some snails will eat them, but I'm not entirely sure which ones.
Ok. I have a fresh water pipefish tank - heavily planted with sulawesi shrimp (its pretty awesome). I have removed my pipefish in the past and added 3 spotted gouramis until seemingly hydra is gone. It never is. My pipefish only accept live microfood, bbs, moina etc. I cant simply leave a gourami to live with them because it will out compete my pipefish for the bbs. So tell me, what do i do? These are very sensitive fish i do not want to dose with chems.
Thanks Cory
I have yet to see fish activitly eat these. I have certain nano predatory fish in my shrimp tank. The hydra are at the surface of the tank. I have cut back on all live nano foods. The only thing that works at killing them is dog dewormer. Which has not effected snails only pond snails. The rams horn and Malaysian snails do not skip a beat. I do pull my rabbit snails when I treat a the tank.
UGH. I just dealt with hydra in my SPARKLING GOURAMI tank, & my shrimp tank. The gourami's didn't eat them, and would be stung by them :( Granted, they're well fed. I ordered No Planaria, which took care of it 😊
Was that safe for the shrimp? I just noticed these in my cherry tank and I'd love to not have to move the shrimp out.
@@matthewcutter8760 I had no idea there were so many in my shrimp tank, & I'm pretty sure they ate all the babies I had. it was scary & I had nightmares about them 😂😂 just order no planaria on amazon! :)
My shrimp tank is blooming with Hydra 😑 I have another tank full of guppies and i heard they will eat hydra. I'm worried they'll eat my shrimp too lol but maybe a small guppy would be okay? It's been so hard to find the right answer without using chemicals 😢
Very interesting that Bettas don't go for hydra very much. I would have guessed they'd be great predators of them.
Interesting, I have an observation though. My 20 gallon tank doesn't have any fish or shrimp only common snails (it's at the the end of its cycle) so I never added any brine shrimp or other sources of food, yet I have seen a bunch of hydras pop up. I also have a lot of rhabdocoela worms, my theory is that the hydras are eating the rhabdocoela worms because they are so small? Because there aren't any other food sources?
Good to know
I just saw some of these guys near my filter intake. Tank is 1.5 months old, loads of plants, some bladder and ramshorn snails, but no fish. I don’t put any food in the tank at all. I’m about a week into a bacterial bloom after rescaping it; wasn’t planning to add fish for a little while. So what are these little hydra dudes eating? bacteria in my water column?
I have Hydra in one of my tanks. I haven’t done anything to get rid of it. The tank houses a male Betta, Ember Tetras, Nerites and shrimp. Wonder if Sparkling Gouramis would work in this tank?
Where did the old video go regarding hydra? I liked it better than this one, but now I can't find it.
Sorry to ask an off topic question here...
I have some electric blue rams which are intolerant of nitrates, ammonia and nitrites.
I always feel a bit of fear to use liquid fertilizers thinking that it adds nitrates in aquarium and might stress the fish, just in case my plants couldn't utilise it.
I use tropica specialized fertilizer.
Pls let me know if my fears are valid..
Are they really that bad or can I leave them if I’m not trying to breed things
Wonder what kind of camera that is your using good quality sir
Can you do one on planaria or tell me if you already have one?
Always a good video
Can you do a video all about dropsy?
Hydra might be the most blown out of proportion pest in the hobby since bladder snails. Hydra are a sign that your water is clean and your tank’s ecosystem can support life. Too often people’s reaction to finding something in their tank is “how do I get rid of it” instead of “why is it here”
some of us are trying to breed shrimp, mate
does neon tetra or danio eat hydra?
If you have a hydra surplus you have a dwarf crawfish deficit.
I have a big outbreak in my guppies fry tank.
Can you just dump the tank and dry everything out? Will that get rid of them?
Such an interesting creature. Do they always stay green or can they be darker?
This species is green because they have a symbiotic relationship with a type of algae. Other species are clearish-white or light brown. 👍