RE: [Killietalk] hydra

["Edd Kray" <edd at catfishnthecrawlers_com>]

My fist suggestion would be not to loose any sleep over their presence.
As long as they're confined under the shelf, what are they bothering?

Perhaps the easiest solution would be to starve them out. Don't add any
live brine to the tank as a food source and stimulus for them to
reproduce. The population should stay small, under control and be little
if ANY problem.

-----Original Message-----
From: killietalk-bounces+edd=catfishnthecrawlers_com at aka.org
[mailto:killietalk-bounces+edd=catfishnthecrawlers_com at aka.org] On
Behalf Of Kyle Osterholt
Sent: Thursday, June 23, 2005 1:44 PM
To: killietalk at aka_org
Subject: [Killietalk] hydra

well it finally happened, I have hydra.  I havn't found any in my killie
fry or breeder tanks but in a 65 gallon planted community tank with
rainbows, aplocheilus lineatus, congo tetras, bolivian rams, pearl
gourami's, corydoras, bristlenose pleco's, rasboras and nerite snails.
My tank is setup a little different with 2/3 of the tank covered in sand
and planted (before I knew sand wasn't a good plant substrate) and the
other 1/3 with gravel and a makeshift platform/shelf made of patio
stones glued together so there is about a 1foot/1foot shelf supported 3"
off the surface.  I found the hydra when I had a flashlight looking at
something else under the shelf.  I can't find any hydra anywhere but
under there in the dark so they either don't like the light or something
is keeping them under control everywhere else.  I've read pearl
gourami's may eat them so this might account for the small area infected
or they just havn't been in there long enough to overpopulate the tank.
I!
  don't
 have enough flubendazole to dose the tank and most forms of eratication
involve emptying the tank which is out of the question.  Anyone have any
good cures for my condition?  I found a mention of fluketabs being a
possible cure but wanted to see what you guys think.  thanks, Kyle
Osterholt in Oklahoma

		
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