Regular Member Captain Findus Goldfish Posted November 7, 2010 Regular Member Share Posted November 7, 2010 Okey so I cannot seem to get totally rid of planaria in the turtle tank! It is making me crazy! I have both the swimming kind and the window sucking kind! :krazy: A few weeks ago I tore down the entire tank and filters - boiled everything but they are STILL there!!! Now I decided to just pour some bleach in the tank and run it a few days with high salt solution. I will remove the turtle for a week so that I hopefully starve everything! Do they respond to prazi? I cannot have them in my tank, it looks SO gross... :cry1 What is weird is that the other 2 turt tanks do not have this. I think i introduced them to begin in a plant I forgot to sterilize... In a year of this tank running i have never had issues. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Regular Member Wendy Posted November 7, 2010 Regular Member Share Posted November 7, 2010 3% salt nor prazi killed them in my qt tank 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Regular Member kukana d Posted November 7, 2010 Regular Member Share Posted November 7, 2010 I have never had this Fede(knock on wood),but it does sound gnarly! And especially for a person w/ a cleaning fetishSounds like you might need to nuke them w/ bleach! Surely,someone around here has successfully gotten rid of them at some point I wonder if turning the temp WAY up would help also? Good luck w/ this 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Regular Member blackteles Posted November 7, 2010 Regular Member Share Posted November 7, 2010 See if this link may help, Federica... Planaria 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Regular Member Captain Findus Goldfish Posted November 7, 2010 Author Regular Member Share Posted November 7, 2010 And especially for a person w/ a cleaning fetish :rofl So TRUE! OMG and I think Savannah (the turt) is also a little germophob as today she was scratching her eyes. YUCK that tank was gross! Now she is in a nice rubber tub. I also thought about the heat! Running it one week like at 45C should kill em! Bleach doesn't seem to kill all as I had done that to ALL the tank + deco AND BOILED all the filter media + replaced the sponge! It's becoming a real nightmare! Thanx Dennis I will take a look. So far I only read that I must starve them. How long does that take? ARGH! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Regular Member ashlee18 Posted November 7, 2010 Regular Member Share Posted November 7, 2010 I have planaria in my hospital tank. It is disgusting. I think it came over in the seeded media. There are sooooo many of them and they wont go away. I can't wait until I can tear the tank apart. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Regular Member Captain Findus Goldfish Posted November 7, 2010 Author Regular Member Share Posted November 7, 2010 do you have the swimming or sucking kind? i find the swimming one way gross! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Regular Member ashlee18 Posted November 8, 2010 Regular Member Share Posted November 8, 2010 Swimming. After a water change, it looks like it is snowing And it kills me because it is barebottom and there is obviously no food left with the vacuums with fins in there. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Regular Member Sakura Posted November 8, 2010 Regular Member Share Posted November 8, 2010 vacuums with fins I love it! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Regular Member Captain Findus Goldfish Posted November 8, 2010 Author Regular Member Share Posted November 8, 2010 Swimming. After a water change, it looks like it is snowing YES!!! IT's SOOOOO GROSS!!!!!!!! :krazy: :krazy: I also have barebottom and keep the tank clean - I think in my case it is because I feed high protein - so not all is digested and they eat the poop! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Regular Member mikroll Posted November 8, 2010 Regular Member Share Posted November 8, 2010 interesting problem, i seem to remember that baby fish love to eat the planaria, . Also if the fish and plants can be removed for a while try dumping a bottle (250ml) of H2O2 3% or more in there as disinfect for a few hours as it is wasy to remove later by water change. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Regular Member Cynders Posted November 8, 2010 Regular Member Share Posted November 8, 2010 I had some and they were the swimming kind and I overturned all the hollow ornaments in my tank and took out all the gravel and they starved to death :lol2 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Regular Member Captain Findus Goldfish Posted November 8, 2010 Author Regular Member Share Posted November 8, 2010 Mikroll-that is a very clever idea. Right now I have it just running totally empty. Anyone know how many days they take to starve? They are just so gross! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Regular Member kukana d Posted November 8, 2010 Regular Member Share Posted November 8, 2010 Does this stuff ever have a hard exterior? A few months back,a snail made it's way into 1 of my betta tanks on a plant. Round and round the tank he'd go-then 1 day I just don't see him anymore! Now in that 1 tank I see some tiny little things-attached on the inside-but they have hard exteriors. They don't really look like snails,but they are very small. Any ideas? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Supporter Helen Posted November 9, 2010 Supporter Share Posted November 9, 2010 Does this stuff ever have a hard exterior? A few months back,a snail made it's way into 1 of my betta tanks on a plant. Round and round the tank he'd go-then 1 day I just don't see him anymore! Now in that 1 tank I see some tiny little things-attached on the inside-but they have hard exteriors. They don't really look like snails,but they are very small. Any ideas? no idea! but weird.. do you have pics? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Regular Member Raivynn Posted November 9, 2010 Regular Member Share Posted November 9, 2010 ...Arent planaria a sign that your tank is superhealthy? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Regular Member Captain Findus Goldfish Posted November 10, 2010 Author Regular Member Share Posted November 10, 2010 Susan, mine are squishy. The swimming ones are thin white worms - some babies of a few mm and some grandpas of about 1 inch! And the sucking glass ones are short but fat - and they crawl around. Yuck... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Regular Member Quasi Posted November 10, 2010 Regular Member Share Posted November 10, 2010 (edited) Susan, mine are squishy. The swimming ones are thin white worms - some babies of a few mm and some grandpas of about 1 inch! And the sucking glass ones are short but fat - and they crawl around. Yuck... The new horror movie: Invasion of the Planaria Now in 3D Edited November 10, 2010 by Quasi 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Regular Member caitie Posted November 10, 2010 Regular Member Share Posted November 10, 2010 Here is an interesting site I found for you: http://www.turtleforum.com/forum/upload/index.php?showtopic=65895 Hope that helps. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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