flyfisher

Any fish will eat the shrimplets if they can find them. Lots of fish food is made up of shrimp, so you'll primarily have to keep fish that aren't big enough to eat them because if they can, they will.

Edit - I've had luck with kuhli loaches, guppies and celestial pearl danios.

Same here plus some of the Neons & Rummynose tetras

thanks for the advise now to find them so far only been able to source some Brevis but have my sites set on a Multi colony

so the search begins.

FLY

throw it in your fav. flower bed or vegge garden makes great fert.

FLY

I have been battling BGA as well blackouts nevered worked for me either.I have increased dosing of N as well as using excel.You can spot dose some of the worst areas with H2O2 (hydrogen peroxide) 3% but be warned it can destroy some plants.

1) turn off all filters so there is no water movement

2) spot dose infected areas I use 20ml in my 75g

3) let BGA bubble way for 20min.( very satisfing to watch LOL )

4) do 50% WC clean off as much as you can and clean filters

This did destroy my hornwort but didn't harm the java fern & moss,melon swords amazon swords hygro or jungle vals.All fish and shrimp came through without problems.

BGA never goes away its always present in our tanks and just waiting for the right conditions to flourish.

Dosing of N and excel keeps mine in check.

FLY

Looking at starting a colony of Multis and was wondering what would be a good starting number in a 20 gallon. 24" x 12" x 16".

thanks FLY

Sounds like your set up will serve you well I know plumbing in a Hydor ETH can be a real pain with the Fluvals.My I suggest some small hose clamps at the connections at $.25 per clamp its cheap insurance solved all of my leaks after a afternoon of messing around with mine and a 405.

FLY

I had my plants in a 75 g while I was doing fishless cycle they loved all of the ammonia I was dosing 4ppm.

FLY

Tried spot treating some BGA using H2O2 used 20ml in a 75g BGA was gone within 8 hours but at 24 hours hornwort fell apart learned something new

FLY

To industrial looking for me put maybe others would be interested? $119.00 if I remeber correctly.

FLY

yep 1st treatment was aug.17 2nd sept.4 passed worms 1st time nothing on 2nd will give feben a try too I have a great vet who treats my mut and is interested in my fish experiments LOL thanks for the input.

Due to a Camallanus outbreak I'm in the process of restocking my very empty 75g was wondering what type of regiment other AA members use in their QT tanks. I have picked up some more neons from a lfs and already treated twice with Lev ( yes they passed worms ) all survived treatment and are doing fine in the 10g QT tank now I was wondering if a round of paraguard would be in order have used it in the past with sick fish with good results.Am I going over board with treatment and QT?

FLY

This might sound gross but I have used it as a last resort. Get everything set up open the aqua stop vaules and suck on the out flow tube until you can hear canister filling up attach outflow to its bracket plug in.

FLY

I use a couple of the lights and they're fantastic, I use the 20" and the 48" fixture.

Thanks for the input was going to try 48" over top of 2 x 20g pushed together both will be planted and co2ed for dwarf puffers & shrimp for other.

Was wondering if anyone on here has used this brand of equipment have read some online reviews,but was hoping for some 1st hand reports from members.$ seem reasonable.

FLY

You can add pure ammonia, I got mine from Safeway. You can then get it ready for a full bioload before you return your fish.

Sorry Ron I should have mentioned I still have stock in the 75 g I will edit original post.

thanks

FLY

So just finishing up treatment with Levamisole lost alot of stock before i found the Lev, and now my plants are really suffering and algea is thriving LOL from the lose of all the nutreints supplied by the fish and all of the 50% water changes ( nitrates at 0 ) I was looking for a temp.fix until I can bring bio-load back up(have fish in QT ).

set up is

75 gallon

flourite red

2 x T5HO = 108 watts

plants include

melon sword

amazon sword

dwarf amazon sword

java fern

jungle val

horn wort

hygro

6 Kuhli loachs

6 amano shrimp

2 bristtle nose

3 neons

All other stock wiped out or euthanized because of Camallanus worms

any thoughts or ideas

thanks

FLY

FLY

Spotted a 45 pint dehumidifier while at Princess Auto $199.99 brand Haier might come in handy for some of your fish rooms.

Fly

I have written nasty letters to a couple to pet stores that have worms, but pet stores are about turning over stock and making a buck, and when they die in your tank, you buy more. I have recieved politically correct answers, but there is never any followup. Worms are a tough critter to deal with without hurting or killing everything in the system, and a store isn't going to shut down to purge a plague that is hidden for the most part.

Treatment is nearly impossible for a store with a central system. Better stores have sponge filters in each tank. Helps prevent cross contamination.

Always QT new fish. Medicate them and never share nets without disenfection.

My philosophy, don't buy from stores if at all possible. If you do give your business to a good one. Don't skimp on the quarantine. Everything you need you can find on forums. Buy your fish off respected members of the fish nerd society.

Your right this does seem to be a taboo subject when mentioned in lfs you either get a puzzled look or a list of possiblities some of them make me question the reliablity of their knowledge on the subject or down right misinformation.

i"ve heard "its the food you are feeding them causing the red things to stick out of their rear ends brine shrimp and blood worms are red and some fish food has red dye to enhance color" give me a break.I've also had some try to sell me loads of differnet meds costing $ which don't work when questioned they usually respond with "have you tried them yet".

Your right Jayba internet forms should be first line of defence and approach this subject with some knowledge on the subject.Buyer beware also applies

FLY

Ok i've begun treatment with Lev on my tank for this pest,I was wondering if this thing is more common than people seem to think.I know since this outbreak I,ve noticed it in more and more tanks including lfs.Is it possible that alot of the infections we comonly see are secondary infections caused by our fish having weakened immune systems from these worms.This might explain why some fish just don't respond to the treatments or quickly pick up something else.

I have notice a lot of lfs use a central filtration system for thier tanks so if one tank or one fish shipment is infected all will be,I know it wouldn,t be economical for stores to QT fish for the 8-12 weeks it takes for these worm to show them selves so it would be up to the hobbist to QT all fish( I will be treating all future stock as infected and treat with Lev from now on) and why has'nt any one of the companys come out with a medication that is effective for control of these.

FLY

Its friday night and here I sit laughing at what I just did opening a plain evelope and dumping out some small baggies of a strange white powder all neatly measured out into 5g amounts ( my Levamisole arrived today ) following Jayba reconmidation on dosing I dumped out 1 baggy on a mirror and started to split it in to five little piles with a razor blade I can only imagine what my neibours would think if they could see me LOL one pile into the tank others wrapped neatly in tin foil.

I should be down camping at Racehouse Creek sitting around the camp fire and telling lies with friends and planning our fishing for the next day but no here I am baby sitting sick fish. Oh well see how fish make out then hit the moutains next week i hope.

FLY

I have several Kuhli in with my Amanos never experinced any problems wood & flower shrimp are much larger than the tiny Amanos

I'm always for the look out for these worms as I get a lot of wild caught Apisto's . I have read many times these fish come in with worms but have never seen any,. Perhaps my quarrentine period which includes a couple days of clout is knocking them out ? or I could just be in need of glasses - not sure

LOL the only way I can see them is with a pair reading glasses.I know i picked this up from fish purchased at a local lfs that i didn't quarentine properly lesson learned.

But since this I have noticed more tanks also have this worms I think most people don't notice.

FLY

Just do a big water change and follow this.

http://AlbertaAquati...l=&fromsearch=1

Jayba

thanks for the link interesting read

Hi All

Looking for some pointers or advice on treating my tanks for this horrible red demon.I have been using some Fenbendazole liquid i obtained from my vet it has taken care of approx. 90% of the worms but after two complete 3 weeks treatments worms still appear to be hanging out of some fish.So I have ordered some Levamisloe HCI from canadian aquatics, and would like to begin treatment ASAP but should i make sure all previous medication has been removed?( water changes charcoal etc.)

As for fenben not hurting snails look out it effectively killed all pond and MTS snails but ramshorn survived??

thanks FLY

Hi All

yep i'm new here decided to sign up, this site has been very helpful with my reintrodution to fish keeping after beeing away for over fourteen years.All of the new gadgets and info has made this a very interesting hobby again even with all the pitfalls that go with.I had smaller tanks in the past but wanted something bigger and planted so I built my self a stand and picked up a 75g .

i haven't decided which direction to move in so have stuck with a community tank for now that is med. planted.

FLY