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Re: Some thoughts and questions
cfghra wrote:
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> The best hydra remover I have tried is Panacur it is a worm drench for
> horses, there are a few different strenth bottles you can get. I use 1ml to
> 100 litres of aquarium water with Panacur 100 which is 100grams of
> fenbendazole to 1 litre. If you can only get Panacur 30 make it 3-4 ml per
> 100 litres. I have added it to a tank untill the fish start to get jumpy and
> that was 9 times moere than I recomended here. Does make your tank go cloudy
> for a couple of hours.
One easy cure I forgot, because it isn't usually practical for me, is to
stop all live-food feeding and starve them to death. It works, slowly, and
is surely the most friendly technique to all the tank inhabitants but your
fish.
>
> When I used to deshell my brineshimp eggs I never had a hydra problem, since
> I stopped it seems to pop up everytime I have fry and have to hatch some
> BBS. Do hydra lay eggs? If so do they attach the eggs to the brins shrimp
> egg hoping to get an easy feed when the BBS emerges?
It may just be coincidence.
They come in on plants, nets, LFS water or other "wet" conveyances, but not
ever on dry BS eggs. They multiply quickly, in any infected tank that is
regularly being fed bbs. Hydra spread by budding and releasing
semi-free-swimming young that attach to the next solid object they touch.
Once there, they must get some live food drifting into their tentacles, or
they starve and die.
Wright
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