How to Get Rid of Planaria - 4 Proven Methods
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- čas přidán 26. 07. 2024
- Do you have large flatworms crawling all over your aquarium? Might be planaria, so keep watching as I talk about 4 effective ways to get rid of them.
Thank you to Senzeal for giving me a free glass planaria trap to review for this video. #ProductSponsorship
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▶ Planaria trap: www.senzeal.com/glass-3-holes...
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▶ How to Identify and Kill Planaria The Easy Way (In Just Days!): fishlab.com/planaria/
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Your energy in your presentations make any topic interesting to watch. I'm a very old hobbyist yet you can still teach this old dog new tricks, and you have. Keep on keeping on.
We just gonna ignore the fact that she’s hot
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Thank you so much, I looked at so many videos trying to find a way to get these things out of my tank. This is the first helpful thing I found in 3 months.
I just found your channel and I gotta say, I love, love, love your work. Presentation is top notch. Enthusiasm in your narration is refreshing and your explanation is very good. Fantastic info for fish keeping hobbyists!
Very interesting product review. I like the idea of traps, preferring to use meds as a last resort. Your videos are always informative and wonderfully produced. Your careful attention to detail is much appreciated and keeps me tuning in!
Thank you for respectfully making light of this situation. I've been stressed trying to decide which method to use to erratic planaria. I have a trap and for sure have them, so your video was helpful!
I'm new to this hobby and I'm hooked! Thank you for always giving straight forward and easy to follow instructions. You are my go-to channel for all things fish & shrimp related. Yay for Girl Talks Fish! Now, some worms are going to die.
I had planeria in one of my 5.5 gallon tanks. It was sitting empty, cycling a couple filters so nutrients were high. Once I was done cycling those filters, I took one out (for another quarantine tank) and put in one of my Male bettas. After he acclimated to the change in tank I noticed him starting to hunt them and eat them off the sides. You can't control this style of treatment, but my tank has been planeria free since then. Great video.
Love the knowledge and very easy to digest information! Always appreciate you and your very thorough videos! :)
Another great video, AGW!
I've never had any experience with planaria. Although I do recall my parents having an outbreak of them in our community tank when I was a kid.
Really do enjoy all your content, keep up the great work! 😍🐡💙🌟🌈
Your videos are so helpful and so easy to understand! Thank you for making videos!
Subscribed! ❤️
Thank you so much! Let me know if there's any other topics you'd like me to cover. :)
Great info, thanks. And love your videos! ❤️👍🏻
Very useful information,easy to understand.thank you.
The trap looks like a funky dab rig
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The method i used was to decrease feeding and manual removal every day with thin tubing. I can confirm Planaria Zero is shrimp safe, i recently used it to eradicate hydra.
Is it snail safe?
@@sabinegray1450 from my experience, yes. I had ramshorn snails in that aquarium and they lived
@@sabinegray1450 not mystery snail safe
I've been sharing your videos with aquarist friends. I now use alum to that all incoming new plants. Yay!
Such an awesome video - I also learnt the creepies on my glass are Rhabdocoela and they aren't as harmful! Thank you! You're amazing.
That’s a great review, thanks!
Hey gamers wife. Nice video. I use Fenbendazol against planaria too. Works great. Thats how i use it: I use 30 ml Fenbendazol in 100l (22 gal) water. Let it in there for 10 days. Remember to use a airstone... to keep the O2 high enough... dead worms will rott in the water. On the 11. day i make 50% waterchange. And then i make 50% every 3 days. 3 times. Then i wait 2 weeks and redo the process. Why? Planaria lay eggs. and to kill the new hatched planaria before they are old enough to lay new eggs, u simply do the same process again. Greetings from germany, keep up the good work :-)
Great videos, thanks for providing these to the fish keeping community. Just a heads up though, those things 'inching' along the aquarium are snail leeches. Definitely not planaria (which generally glide along the glass). Anyway, I hope this is helpful.
Had the same thought... in that clip of just a couple of darker ones.
i used to had a lot of planarians in my betta tank, then i stopped feeding him and he started hunting them down. and my betta looks like quite happy to have a delicious snacks :D
That's nice. I wish my little cherry shrimps would eat them. Lol
Helpful video, thanks 👍 😊
Thankful for this information ❤️
Awesome presentation and information! Never had to deal with planaria (*knock on wood!!*) but great info to know. That planaria trap looks gorgeous, like a potion vial 😁 Thanks for the great video!
I know, right? I love how intricate it looks. :)
This video helped me a lot thank you!!
This is an awesome video and wish it had come out a few months earlier. I was trying various things when a tank or two of mine suddenly showed up with P. (hitchhikers from plants from others--just like you). I have successfully used "planaria zero" which seems safe for shrimp. However, I had to order it from Japan. Your solutions, especially the one using alum is probably a great find. It does the same thing as the planaria zero which basically is a desiccant and "drys up" the worms. I will definitely try alum. I've also just taken the tank down and dried it out. That I'm hoping also works. However, I can appreciate that it's not an option for most people. Since I have a fish room, it's fairly easy for me to do but where there are live plants, I know this is not always possible.
Great video, I haven't had that problem yet. I've been breeding fish for over fifty year's. I just started with cherry shrimp a month ago so I've been watching everything that has to do with shrimp.
Thanks for the info!!!
Useful as always. Though I am looking forward to the rack of tanks set up to enable simultaneous AB testing with a control 🤞
Putting fish in has always been my preferred method. Free food for the fish, wormless tanks for me. Win win. Your other methods were well researched and presented and have worked successfully for many hobbyists.
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Thank you! Yes, adding the endlers was the easiest way by far. 😋
If you're considering the trapping method and don't want to buy/wait for a planaria trap what worked for me was to:
1) empty a 500 mL plastic bottle of water
2) poke 6 holes in the bottom of the bottle with a needle
3) put some fishfood inside the bottle
4) let the bottle rest on the floor of the aquarium with the poked holes resting directly on the substrate
5) empty the bottle once you notice some planaria in it (in my tank it was like every ~3 hours, not a long time)
6) rinse and repeat until you do this method and find no planaria in the bottle
THANK YOU
Love the trap🙌🏼just set up a 30 gallon tank and they are everywhere🥲
No-Planaria should be shrimp safe. I have used it a couple of times on tanks with shrimp (Neocaridina), and never had any shrimp die.
Do you have to switch off the filter?
@@ForeverAlone100100 ....No need to switch off the filter.
No planaria is shrimp safe, but! It's also a snail killer
@@DrCarbomb Thanks for the info.
I have never tried it on a tank with snails.
@@hanna9827 yes, except the ones you want to die off.
Also, do a thorough gravel vac and a seachem prime dose afterwards, otherwise risk an ammonia spike
Thank you for this video, I spotted my first planaria creature last night in my new shrimp tank!
I was concerned I did have planaria for a little while, but after watching for a little while determined they were way too small and were just detritus worms. I didn't know about the Alum dip, but this is something I'll be trying out in the future!
Thank you for this video.
Your videos are so fantastic! And I live for that Alum trick!
I know, right? So glad it works on so many unwanted creatures. :)
It is a planaria
*Have you dealt with planaria before, and if so, what method worked best for you?* Comment below to share your experiences, and subscribe to see more videos like this! goo.gl/4q2idY
Thank you so much! Do you have a tutorial on detritus worms???
After the recent moss ball scare, all my new plants go into a special tank for quarantine. I just bought some Xmas moss off eBay and there were a lot of hitchhikers. Since there aren't any fish in that tank I am getting to see all those microscopic organisms. I removed a single piece of duckweed even a little string algae. I have had more baddies ride in on plants than on fish, and I learned my lesson. I'm enjoying keeping plants now that I'm more careful.
I've had mostly good luck. I had planaria hitchike, but 8 also got some susswassertang and becarrii (super rare red moss!)
Hello! Very nice video.
Could you give any advice for removing detritus worms from the aquarium???
Thanks.
You just convinced me to try that trap. Thanks!
Waste of money. Poke some holes in the bottom of a plastic water bottle, drop in some gravel or something for ballast, then add some sinking food pellets. Place it bottom down in the tank, pushing it down into the substrate a bit. First time I used it I had 10 planaria within about 30 minutes.
@@mattriddell8983 I would but way too big for a 5 gallon nano tank. Just not functionally practical. Thanks for the suggestion though. If ever I get them in a larger tank. I may be able to give your suggestion a try. Thanks again.
@@sbart6591 Maybe an empty honey bottle? Has to be a better use of $15 than a fancy glass trap you'll hopefully only use once lol
This was Awesome! Thank you so much! Do you know how to get rid of Tubifex worms? I have them in my substrate. The only way I can figure they got there is on, yep you guessed it, live plants.
I’ve not yet had any critters, but snails hitchhike in, but now I know what to do when it does happen.
I love your videos and your energy! And this one as well was very helpful. I do have a question though. I’m learning by experience about pests that can get into your aquarium. I’ve been through the pest snails, detritus worms (was so disgusted until I learned more about them!) and now leeches. Leeches have almost discouraged me from this hobby. But I do love this hobby so I’m not giving into them! I had no choice but to part with my fish, as I’ll be having major surgery soon and have no one to care for them. But, I haven’t taken down my aquarium yet. My plants are mostly cleared out. I have two nerites left in there. It is very difficult to find information on how to rid your tank of leeches. The type I think I have are an Asian freshwater leech Barbronia weberi. Would you and aquarium co op have any advice before I give in and completely take everything down? If I have to start over so be it (it would have to wait until after my surgery), but if there’s a chance I can keep mine going I’d much rather.
You should make a video about how to remove leeches from your tank
Love your videos. Question... How do you manage to not gravel vac your your shrimplets? I always end up sucking up a few.
Thank you for the video!😁
Hmmm🤨 seems like you've got new fish for that 20 gallon huh🙃
Why don't you do an update on it really like this tank👍👍
I’m lucky enough that I haven’t had to deal with planaria yet. Thank god. But if I ever do notice them in my tank, now I know what to do. Thanks!
Yay, glad you liked the video!
Lovely video! Have you ever had to deal with Hydra before?
Thankyou..regally good ...planarian are interesting creatures..can slice and dice and create multi headed things. That was way back
"...and then, shake a lot, a lot, a lot -- FOREVER."
LOL!
I too use and swear by bacter ae for my shrimp tanks. Cutting down the back their feedings and going to solid dish foods for a while was very effective, thank you. Also, along my adventure I discovered yet another method. Lower the water level in the tank just below the upper black rim. Once they begin getting hungry, they come out of the gravel and head towards the surface to look down for the food source. I used a fine brine shrimp net and collected them off the glass. No chemical warfare necessary.
Thank you. i noticed some weird worms and other stuff in my shrimp tank. ill try this with a diy trap
Panacur C worked in a day. Thanks for the info.
Had some white worms but determined they were rhabdocoela (or at least I think they were). Cue much relief, they were pretty easy to get rid of! Thanks for this video though, I thought it was hard to find straightforward info on how to get rid of planaria when that's what I thought I had.
Thanks so much! Yeah, I had never heard of rhabdocoela before I started doing research on planaria, but they are definitely a lot less invasive thankfully. :)
I forgot to mention that I purchased that planaria trap 2 years ago and it works fantastic. Just one thing though, tiny new born shrimp can find there way into the trap. Simply empty the contents of the trap in a cup of the aquarium water and you can suck out the new borns with a turkey baster.
This is the easiest dosing method I have seen. Super helpful information! Thank you! =) Question: Do you put dechlorinator in the water with the dewormer?
I think I would just add the dechlorinator directly to the tank when I use the dewormer. Or you could use tank water to mix in the medicine.
@@GirlTalksFish Thank you! =)
I figured I'd grab some small fish this week to deal with the planaria in my axolotl tank. I know they can damage her gills, so I'll be keeping a close eye on it as an experiment.
So I have a betta in a 3.5 gallon planted tank with a heater set at about78 to 80 degrees. His tank is changed about weekly, and he will be getting two pellets a day as of now because I think I have planaria in my tank. Do you think i should try to do water changes 2 times a week and keep that feeding schedule or buy the planaria trap? I've only now noticed them because they've been all over the glass. Thanks for the info on the video!
Worms just LOVE Shrimp tanks!!!
BTW those Senzeal lights are AMAZING....... :)
Oh really? I haven't even opened it yet, but now I guess I'll try it!
@@GirlTalksFish I'm honestly SUPER IMPRESSED.
Fenben does work well but trap & water change is my preferred way.
How to Get Rid of Planaria. Quite simple. I bought 5 Coridoras sterbai for my midsize aquarium, The make short work with any critters in your aquarium. They are hardy and will live happily for years in your aquarium.
Great video, I'm curious if the planaria trap works, I found some in my shrimp tank and have rabbit snails so I would rather trap then move the snails to a new home as I know the meds would kill my snails.
Is Canine de warmer is safe to also any fish like betta and also crayfish/lobster?
Can I use with with a fahaka puffer in the tank? Thank you 🙌🏻🙌🏻
what do you do after the 3rd day? a 50% waterchange? I just dosed my aquarium with alum yesterday and wanted to know the steps for after the 3rd day. Right now the water is super clear, but the surface of everything has a white film, kinda chunky. What should I do?
Please let me know!!!!!
Thanks so much. They have bloomed. I'm worried because I have so many baby shrimp and a buried mom. I really hope I can fix this without losing all 30 of my babies. 🤞🏾😲
Can I put Panacur C in my tank with betta fish and nerite snails?
I have a 10 gallon tank and need to get rid of worms. And is it ok to keep filter sponge and air stone in tank while treating?
And then after is my sponge ok to keep?
I got them in a tank with pea puffer and ember tetras and ottos do you think they will get rid of planaria? Or do I need to treat with chemicals? X
Liked!
Planaria looks cool i want it
Today I killing this
Good luck! I hoped you were successful. :)
Bro it was on my turtle I remove it with cotton bud and now it's attacking on my aquarium
Is panacur c safe for catfish? Got a Cory that I do not want to move out of that tank and cross contaminate my other tanks
Can you have live plants in that gravel too or is it too shallow? It looks really easy to clean!
Very Informative video. I notice my three bettas tanks had these small white things that were swimming in my water some weeks ago! I notice they were detritus worms. They are harmless but are nuisance.
Yeah, I've never liked the look of them, even if they are harmless. :)
Hello! How are you and your betta doing? How did you get rid of the detritus worms in the fish tank?
I recently noticed detritus worms in one of my betta tanks as well. Hard to understand, because I don't overfeed my tanks - I stand there dropping one pellet, blood worm or brine shrimp in at a time!Anyway, this may be a problem that will solve itself, as I've also seen my bettas hunting and eating a worm or two!
@@pjp9383 Yes, free food for the betta!
Hello PJP! Do you do at least 25 to 50 percent water change and weekly gravel cleaning?
My detritus was so bad and annoying I had to move my fish temporarily to another tank bleach the filter,heater,and decorations and change the gravel it was a lot but now I don’t have them. Definitely the worst part about keeping fish.
Seed shrimp and planarian seem like a free clean up crew and food source.
Will the dewormer option 3, kill my snails?
good info, I've had a few infestations of planaria over the years, neon tetras liked to eat them!
Also you can buy different amounts of Panacur C. For example if you buy the 2 gram size, use 200 ml of water instead of 100 ml. You will end up with the same concentration.
I had problems with planaria and detritus worms. I was about to medicate my tank but I wanted to do it as naturally as possible. Medicine will be my last option. I wondered why I didn't have any worm with my previous smaller tank when I only had a betta and 2 Corydorys. Unfortunately, my Corys died in the process of transfering/transplanting them to a bigger tank without isolating my fishes (big mistake!!!). Only the betta fish survived. Long story short, I tried maturing/cycling my new tank for a month with just 1 female betta. That's because I also wanted to wait and grow my plants from seeds and a couple of plants bought from the pet shop, etc before I introduce more fishes. To my surprise three weeks after, there were thousands of them all over the glass. They were very disgusting it bothers me knowing there are worms on my tank! So I went to the pet shop, bought me 6 guppies, 12 tetras, 3 corydorys. After 1 day, problem solved! You can just introduce them to your tank and remove them after a day or two if you just need to get rid of the worms. Guppies I found to be the best worm eater. Looked like a frenzy I actually enjoyed watching them hunt the worms one by one. I couldn't see a single worm on the glass even after just a single day! I have a 25 gallons tank. 80cmx40cmx30cm dimension. Just incase someone out there has the same problem and looking for a better solution. Enjoy your Tank!
Hi so the worms in your video near the start are not planeria? As I have the same ones
I’ve been using the planaria trap for a week now. I get 20-40 planaria per night. Even though I never see them they are still coming out at night.
I've seen them mixed in the tubifex worms.
Did an experiment in high school with planaria
I just got the panacur-c and I did what you say! I hope it really helps I have a 5gal tank with a Betta and two kuhliloaches and I noticed those little worms...just one question how long should I wait until give other dose of panacur-c, like once a day for a couple of days and the make a water change or what do you recommend...I also removed the activated charcoal from the pump
Did it work for you?
Do u mix tap water into mix with dewormer or dechlorinated water 💧 🤔 Video was very helpful just want to make sure im doing it properly 😎
My problem are shrimp. I thought it would be a good idea to introduce some shrimp for my fish to eat the seed shrip or larvae they produce, a nice clean source of live food. Well mistake. I chose bright blue mini shrimp because these are found in a few of our mountain streams around here and were free. Unfortunately the fish obviously cant eat enough shrimp larvae because soon the entire tank was encrusted in shrimp and in fact one or two fish choked to death by eating shrimp that were too prickly and big already to swallow. Shrimp are a pest before anyone decides to do what I did, worse than snails. Someone suggested making the water on the acid side because shrimps need calcium or something and wont be able to shed? I wasn't sure, the fish are pretty tolerant of PH being rosy barbs.
Things I've never seen or encountered to my knowledge... Barf ALL the barf and a new phobia.
Lol, I have a similar reaction to certain creepy crawlies as well...
That's why I'm here! Oh my 🐠 fish! I'm so grossed out. I immediately moved my Boi out (coolest Betta ever) and put him in my 55 gallon because I had no idea what these creepy, squiggly worms were or if they would kill him or me because my hand are in his tank weekly lol I'm seeing the tiny, hair-thin ones wiggling in the water plus a few larger ones on the glass. I do weekly water changes and really do stay on top of his tank, 10 gallon, at least I thought I was. I did recently buy more plants from Petco. He hates a lot of flow so maybe my filtration system should be turned up a notch? I don't know?
I'm so stressed out but now I feel less panicked. I'm on my way to order some Panacur online at Walmart Pet RX
Thank you so much GTF xo
Does anyone know if using panacur c canine dewormer to kill worms, does the filter need to be active or off? Thanks
Havent used but doing research seemed filter to be off and it does work but is harmful to snails in tank so remove snails if you have any
Can they shrink up to a tiny dot?
Great video! I’m a first time shrimp keeper and I noticed that you have a very fine substrate in your shrimp tanks. Is bigger substrate like aquarium gravel/ rocks from petco fine for shrimp too? Or do shrimp need small substrate like sand or fine gravel?
It doesn't really matter tbh unless you plan on planting your tank. You could go without substate if you really wanted.
I use aragonite to buffer the water seeing as neo caridina shrimp prefer hard water and it is heavily planted tank as well, they prefer that, but it doesn't mean you HAVE to plant the tank. Hopefully I helped a little bit!
I have corydoras shrimps and a zebra snail I want to do this for my planaria hope it works
I have new planted tank betta only and found my betta chasing a worm this morning. Half an inch or so long. And I'm freaking out. I thought the betta was gonna catch it but it squiggled under the gravel. It came from new plants I planted yesterday. Ive only had the tank for 5 days. Its clean. Petsmart said use paraguard
I’ve got a ton of female endler-guppy cross breeds. Many females have color in their tails. (Also have a tankful of seriously colorful males with many different dorsal and tail fins. (Dang things breed like rabbits!)
Great info, but one mistake: fish do not eat plenaria. And even if they could, planaria will hide from them in the gravel. But planaria is bad taste for the fish, they spit it right away.
Whats the other worm you said? Sea trimp?
my problem is they must hitch a ride in with my blackworm culture and now have infested it. I don't think these methods will work without taking out the blackworms as well any suggestion, other then starting a new culture which I've done.
Just want to know what name the creature at 1:52 is called. Thanks
Does anyone know if the canine tablets are assassin snail safe?