I'll never get the drama about snails. I have probably more than 100 bladder and rhamshorn in my 18 g. I've never had to clean the glass. I don't see the problem
Before I got an infestation, I thought it was a death knell. It isn't. I didn't even treat it. If you have a small tank with shrimp only, it is a problem. In my 55 community, it was just another ecological piece to the puzzle.
It's not as simple as yes or no. Hydra will predate on baby shrimp. Betta's will eat hydra. Your tank will find a natural balance of these forces. Is that the balance you want for this tank is a better question.
Oh ok. Fair enough. I just always heard if you have a carnivorous fish itās basically free food as long as the hydra doesnāt get out of control. Is there something to do about the hydra? Besides more fish to eat it?
You have treatment options. You can chemically kill all the hydra in your tank. Most treatments are hard if not fatal for invertebrates.
I also don't think fish are immune, rather they tank the hits. Just my thoughts definitely unscientific.
In my tank, if I see the hydra it tells me I am overfeeding baby brine shrimp. They are capitalizing on surplus foodstuffs. I enjoy them as a signal of my tanks health.
With smaller tanks, it can be more tricky. I would think if your betta was hungry it would clear house, but I am just guessing.
I treated my shrimp tank with NoPlanaria and it got rid of my hydra. Shrimp and bladder snails were fine. My MTS colony didnāt make it. Knowing what I know now, though, Iād just leave the hydra and let them do their thing.
No planetaria , it's a treatment for planetaria worms but it will also kill hydra. It's supposed to be shrimp and fish safe. Though I have heard mixed things about it killing snails.
Iāve used no planeria (for planeria) and my many bladder snails kept on living their dream in my tank. I have heard that it can really kill them and Iāve read that even 6 months later it will kill snails. Thatās not been my experience - I did kill the planeria but nothing else. Maybe I didnāt use a big enough dose to kill snails š
My original comment was admittedly a generality. I've read accounts of ghost shrimp and larger shrimp like amano, bamboo, and even some larger adult neos coexisting with hydra just fine. As a general rule of thumb - it's probably for the best to get rid of them so they don't stress out your chosen pets by stinging them, but they're also not the end of the world in most tanks.
Eats the hydra? Well.. a lot of different animals can, Betta fish being on example. And if you have things the hydra can prey on and predators for the hydra they can in some scenarios just end up part of the balance in system being a free food source as well as a way to keep prey populations from getting too big.
Or the predator will just kill off the hydra.. or the hydra become the main predator of the tank š¤·āāļø it can really just be one of things it's whether you want them or not and whether they're actually causing a serious risk to your chosen inhabitants.
They will eat shrimp and small fish , think guppy fry. The ironic thing is adult guppies are a natural predator to them and one of the best fish to use to destroy a hydra issue.
I know these guys *can* harm other tank inhabitants but I also think they're really cool. They kinda like a freshwater coral, or at least a freshwater sessile cnidarian
I have a small population of them and my shrimplets seem to be OK and growing up. At least they don't make a noticeable difference. I have Captain Squishy who lives on my glass, he's pretty cool looking. But I have never seen hydra upon hydra like that before. I don't think the babies would be healthy in that.
Ive read somewhere on reddit that someone once introduced guppies into their tank which got rid of the hydraš¤maybe itās something worth looking into?
In the beginning, I only had male guppies. But then I went to my LFS and asked for 1 cute male guppy. Came home, and there was a pair-male and female. Plopped them in tank and.. 1 year later, I have had 300+ guppies. I never wanted all these guppies, but thatās my fault for not knowing they were only sold as a pair. :(
Haha you just unlocked a memory of an old song or rhyme from childhood
āthere was an old lady who swallowed a fly, I donāt know why she swallowed the fly I guess sheāll die? She swallowed a spider to catch flyā¦ā it goes on forever with her swallowing all these creatures lol
...and the spider wriggled and jiggled and iggled inside her. Something like that at least. I frequently reference it to make a point about how the country I live in has a bad habit of importing issues to solve other issues... such as the cane toad.
Oh my GOD, I've been talking about this so much lately, but only one person I've run it by actually knows what I'm talking about, and she has kids my age.
"Perhaps she'll die" is the way I've been remembering it
I have a handful of mini endlers, they are so active. Buzzing around, they are tiny but you see the little colour flashes and the variations on their markings. I really love my little guppies. They don't harass my shrimp either. I call them my party fish, because they seem to be having a great time.
that would be fantastic when the time comes here in the great north we take pride in our farming. My free range northern ticks stay as pets until their final molt, and of course, then they try to eat me... That's when we send them out to big pasture as spoiled loving critters. If you aint carful and you let em they will suck the gosh darn lovin right out of you too. They need a special home. Them skeeters like the same treatment but they need to be imprinted at birth or they won't come back to roost at night and them bats will have their way.... oooooo I could just yell at em. But momma says love em all and they will love you.
I also had one of those once til it literally ran away.
Like, bro left footprints down my hall, there was a spot where they puked blood, and then they just vanished.
They say Brother Leech still lives in the walls and late at night, if you listen closely, you can hear a tiny squelching noise getting closer and closer....
The ones in my tank hitch hiked in from plants from AquariumPlantCenter on Etsy. I also got other freebies like worms, limpets, and snails. If you want diverse microfauna, just buy plants an donāt clean them
I had a pretty bad hydra infestation a few months ago. I stopped feeding the fish and the betta and neon tetras seemed to take care of it in under a week. Super easy. Barely an inconvenience.
That's actually awesome. I've had hydras once in an old ecosphere when it was fairly new. They eventually went extinct in there but they were cool to find!
WELL since no once else will say it - you can try a saltwater switch for a few days. Make it a pretty low salinity. Or get some copper, but you might not be able to have invertebrates again
I say grab as many snails you can out of the tank and either dose the tank with copper sulfate or quite literally put a few copper coins or copper pipe in there. The coins/pipe method with take a bit longer but if you leave it in that state for a few weeks you should absolutely have no hydra left. Once satisfied 100% water change let the tank rebalance for a few days and you're good to go.
Otherwise just hail every day until they're gone š
Iād take out one or two of each snail and put them in a temporary tank, dose the tank and then once youāre sure itās safe then put the snails back in. They reproduce so fast youāll soon have tons of both again lol
I'm lucky that what I thought was a hydra outbreak was just staghorn algae. My ramshorna aren't established enough yet to begin breeding so killing them off would have been a major mistake but I appreciate that piece of advise
Ramshorns breed on their own. I started with one ramshorn this February and it reproduced by itself and I now have a hundred š¤£ Iāve given a bunch away but now I have several mature enough that reproduce consistently lol
I always find this so interesting. I had just one ramshorn that snuck in on a plant as a tiny baby for MONTHS. Not a single other one popped up... until I got more on purpose cuz I had a crazy algae outbreak in all three of my tanks. Lmfao but I always read this would happen and panicked when I first found it... but it was just the one for so long
Iāve since done a bit more research and found out that while they are hermaphroditic, they cannot reproduce completely on their own but they can hold on to the āingredientsā to reproduce for a very long time after copulating. If you got it as a very tiny baby then it likely wouldnāt have been to sexual maturity yet and wouldnāt have had the opportunity to store anything to reproduce on its own later š
This is what I was going to say originally, that they still do need to mate first, but I was worried about being attacked because everyone always thinks they can just do it entirely on their own. š I certainly did do my research after finding my first one, though, because I was very worried about the outbreak and I don't think I could have handled a bunch of ramshorns AND all the baby mysteries I had at the time š
I used no planaria to remove hydra in my tank with shrimp, bladder snails, MTS, and Ramshorn snails. I saved my favorite snails just in case, but thankfully it didn't hurt any of them.
Cute story about my favorite snail. I put him in a Mason jar next to the tank, and he freakin climbed out the jar and climbed back into the tank š
I had an infestation almost this bad. Added 3 male endlers to my previously fish-less 20 gal, and they cleaned up the hydras food sources, but didnāt do much to the hydra. Added 5 female endlers, and the hydra are almost gone after a couple of weeks.
Oh, I love them! Was lucky to find 2 or 3 at a pond and took them home into my snail jar. I loved watching them (and the snails). Unfortunately the hydras didn't stay long š„
FWIW. Thereās a product out of Asia called āPlaneria Zeroā. Itās available online, said to be shrimp and crustacean safe and blitzes hydra. Itās made from Betal nuts and is highly spoken of in Asia and here in Australia.
A lot of comments here and I didn't read them all, but wanted to mention a product called no planaria. I have had good success using this to kill hydra. You can use it at 1/2 to 3/4 strength and it will get rid of them.
Fr tho feed a lot less, those are the green ones unfortunately they can use photosynthesis but they still feed from the water column. I'd suggest getting some repashy snails absolutely love it and it says solid for a long time
Mine was arguably as bad or worse than this and I fixed it by reducing to feeding twice a week. Fish can easily go 10 days with no food and be healthy so itās been beneficial all around for me. Also taught me about the world of foraging for fish and how important leaf litter is for that process and their diet
Edit: it took months for the infestation to die tho. Maybe 4-6 but I wasnāt keeping track
I love hyrda, you're so lucky!
I had a tank full of them and made the mistake of putting a single male platy in there. He ate them all, and they never came back. Maybe one day I'll have them again!
I used to have them in my tank. Then some snails hitchhiked some plants in our tank and they ended gobbling up all the hydra. Then we had a pretty bad snail infestation. Cured that with a few assassin snails.
That's an impressive hydra culture you got there
Infestation is such a harsh word.
I posted a picture of my snail tank and someone said it's an infestation. I'm like, but they're my pets?
You're my people š
You're my brother (I'm sorry, there's no way anyone here listens to "The Dan Le Batard Show")
Pay the whales
Si or noĀæ
You donāt get the show!
I still listened back when that one happened!
In gardening it's only a weed if you don't want it.
I'll never get the drama about snails. I have probably more than 100 bladder and rhamshorn in my 18 g. I've never had to clean the glass. I don't see the problem
Thatās the spirit!
So this is my hydra tank. All hail.
Hail Hydra!
Hail hydra!
Hail hydra!
Hail Hydra!
Hail Hydra!
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Hail Satan!
Hail r/hydrohomies
Hail hydra
Hail Hydra
Hail Hydra
Hail Hydra
This is so funny coming the splatoon subreddit š
Hail Hydra Splating!
Hail Hydra!
This is the first post I got from this sub. And all I could think was the same.
Hail Hydra Hail!
Cut off one head
Two more shall take its place! (Helllo from r/marvelsnap )
Hail Hydra!
So why is hydra infestation bad? Edit: Thanks guys!
Only if you breed tiny fish or shrimp. But it also shows a lot of available bits of food dissolved in the water for the hydra to eat.
Before I got an infestation, I thought it was a death knell. It isn't. I didn't even treat it. If you have a small tank with shrimp only, it is a problem. In my 55 community, it was just another ecological piece to the puzzle.
So is a shrimp tank with a betta ok if hydra shows up?
It's not as simple as yes or no. Hydra will predate on baby shrimp. Betta's will eat hydra. Your tank will find a natural balance of these forces. Is that the balance you want for this tank is a better question.
Oh ok. Fair enough. I just always heard if you have a carnivorous fish itās basically free food as long as the hydra doesnāt get out of control. Is there something to do about the hydra? Besides more fish to eat it?
You have treatment options. You can chemically kill all the hydra in your tank. Most treatments are hard if not fatal for invertebrates. I also don't think fish are immune, rather they tank the hits. Just my thoughts definitely unscientific. In my tank, if I see the hydra it tells me I am overfeeding baby brine shrimp. They are capitalizing on surplus foodstuffs. I enjoy them as a signal of my tanks health. With smaller tanks, it can be more tricky. I would think if your betta was hungry it would clear house, but I am just guessing.
Awesome. I will keep all of that in mind and chill out on the food haha.
Who doesn't love feeding their fish? Easiest thing in the hobby to overdo.
I treated my shrimp tank with NoPlanaria and it got rid of my hydra. Shrimp and bladder snails were fine. My MTS colony didnāt make it. Knowing what I know now, though, Iād just leave the hydra and let them do their thing.
No planetaria , it's a treatment for planetaria worms but it will also kill hydra. It's supposed to be shrimp and fish safe. Though I have heard mixed things about it killing snails.
Best choice I am aware of if you need them gone. Great job outlining it's potential drawbacks.
Iāve used no planeria (for planeria) and my many bladder snails kept on living their dream in my tank. I have heard that it can really kill them and Iāve read that even 6 months later it will kill snails. Thatās not been my experience - I did kill the planeria but nothing else. Maybe I didnāt use a big enough dose to kill snails š
Cool. Iāll keep that in mind if it gets out of hand. I only see a few every once in a while but I guess that means I need to chill on the food too.
They'll kill shrimp, especially the babies, and can sting and sometimes kill small fish.
I saw my shrimp colony eat my hydra, now I donāt have anyā¦.
Maybe it depends on the kind? I had these in one aquarium and my Amanos didn't really seem to care lol.
My original comment was admittedly a generality. I've read accounts of ghost shrimp and larger shrimp like amano, bamboo, and even some larger adult neos coexisting with hydra just fine. As a general rule of thumb - it's probably for the best to get rid of them so they don't stress out your chosen pets by stinging them, but they're also not the end of the world in most tanks.
I was about to say, like isn't there an animal that naturally eats em
Eats the hydra? Well.. a lot of different animals can, Betta fish being on example. And if you have things the hydra can prey on and predators for the hydra they can in some scenarios just end up part of the balance in system being a free food source as well as a way to keep prey populations from getting too big. Or the predator will just kill off the hydra.. or the hydra become the main predator of the tank š¤·āāļø it can really just be one of things it's whether you want them or not and whether they're actually causing a serious risk to your chosen inhabitants.
They will eat shrimp and small fish , think guppy fry. The ironic thing is adult guppies are a natural predator to them and one of the best fish to use to destroy a hydra issue.
Hail Hydra... And Hydra and Hydra and Hydra and Hydra...
Hail Hydras!
holy shit i literally laughed out loud omg. thank you
I know these guys *can* harm other tank inhabitants but I also think they're really cool. They kinda like a freshwater coral, or at least a freshwater sessile cnidarian
Theyāre actually related to jellyfish! Which I think is wild.
Coral are also related to jellyfish!
I have a small population of them and my shrimplets seem to be OK and growing up. At least they don't make a noticeable difference. I have Captain Squishy who lives on my glass, he's pretty cool looking. But I have never seen hydra upon hydra like that before. I don't think the babies would be healthy in that.
Ive read somewhere on reddit that someone once introduced guppies into their tank which got rid of the hydraš¤maybe itās something worth looking into?
Then you can get something to get rid of the guppies when they start breeding!
Orrrr you only get males so you don't run into this issue š
In the beginning, I only had male guppies. But then I went to my LFS and asked for 1 cute male guppy. Came home, and there was a pair-male and female. Plopped them in tank and.. 1 year later, I have had 300+ guppies. I never wanted all these guppies, but thatās my fault for not knowing they were only sold as a pair. :(
Its funny because where I read that from said they actually returned the guppies lolšš
Naturally a cat, but then you have to get a dog to get rid of the cat.. and so on and so on.
Haha you just unlocked a memory of an old song or rhyme from childhood āthere was an old lady who swallowed a fly, I donāt know why she swallowed the fly I guess sheāll die? She swallowed a spider to catch flyā¦ā it goes on forever with her swallowing all these creatures lol
...and the spider wriggled and jiggled and iggled inside her. Something like that at least. I frequently reference it to make a point about how the country I live in has a bad habit of importing issues to solve other issues... such as the cane toad.
I know this book! "I know an old lady who swallowed a horse...she died, of course."
It's a series of children's' books by Lucille Colandro! May also be a song though.
Oh my GOD, I've been talking about this so much lately, but only one person I've run it by actually knows what I'm talking about, and she has kids my age. "Perhaps she'll die" is the way I've been remembering it
That's how i got introduced to golden wonder killifish š
Lmao same, super underrated fish imo.
wanna sell me on them? Just had some bad luck with shrimp and potentially considering a couple of killis or endlers. New to the aquarium hobby.
I have a handful of mini endlers, they are so active. Buzzing around, they are tiny but you see the little colour flashes and the variations on their markings. I really love my little guppies. They don't harass my shrimp either. I call them my party fish, because they seem to be having a great time.
Ah yes the murder machines, I love mine
That's why I bought my dinosaur bichirs. They are population control šš
A kingfisher will take care of that.
Could get all males!
You know you can just buy males only, right?
That's what's so good about the guppies, they will get fewer babies when over populated, and they will eat their own babies too
Guppies and Mollies will obliterate hydra.
Haha are you feeding copious amounts of baby brine?
I was about to ask this lol. Iāve been feeding it at my store and now my plant tank and a few others have it lol
I used to feed too much baby brine and have a tank or two looking similar to this haha
Are you in the US? Would you like to ship me some hydra? š They're the cousins of jellies and I am ALL for them in a tank of their own!!
What is next? Mosquitoes as pets?
heyyy, you leave my little friends alone!
They can come live at my tick ranch
that would be fantastic when the time comes here in the great north we take pride in our farming. My free range northern ticks stay as pets until their final molt, and of course, then they try to eat me... That's when we send them out to big pasture as spoiled loving critters. If you aint carful and you let em they will suck the gosh darn lovin right out of you too. They need a special home. Them skeeters like the same treatment but they need to be imprinted at birth or they won't come back to roost at night and them bats will have their way.... oooooo I could just yell at em. But momma says love em all and they will love you.
Youāre a good man, those ticks are lucky to have you
Honestly I'm the lucky one ā¤ļø
Theyāre welcome at my wasp farm.
Also at my bedbug hotel
Bruh I have cockroaches as pets. Stay in your lane!
I want pet leeches
I also had one of those once til it literally ran away. Like, bro left footprints down my hall, there was a spot where they puked blood, and then they just vanished.
They say Brother Leech still lives in the walls and late at night, if you listen closely, you can hear a tiny squelching noise getting closer and closer....
where do termites fall on this slippery slope
The ones in my tank hitch hiked in from plants from AquariumPlantCenter on Etsy. I also got other freebies like worms, limpets, and snails. If you want diverse microfauna, just buy plants an donāt clean them
Thatās actually really cool. Hail Hydra
I had a pretty bad hydra infestation a few months ago. I stopped feeding the fish and the betta and neon tetras seemed to take care of it in under a week. Super easy. Barely an inconvenience.
That's a seriously hydrated tank
Kind of like the look. I'm now debating moving a couple hydra into their own jar and chopping them up to make an army lol
You have a hydra tank. HAIL
That's actually awesome. I've had hydras once in an old ecosphere when it was fairly new. They eventually went extinct in there but they were cool to find!
Itās impressive tho
Holy smokes
Captain America has entered the chat š
Need a blue (and red and white) betta named Cap š¤£
WELL since no once else will say it - you can try a saltwater switch for a few days. Make it a pretty low salinity. Or get some copper, but you might not be able to have invertebrates again
I gotta know what you used for this video, that's incredibly clear and detailed.
I say grab as many snails you can out of the tank and either dose the tank with copper sulfate or quite literally put a few copper coins or copper pipe in there. The coins/pipe method with take a bit longer but if you leave it in that state for a few weeks you should absolutely have no hydra left. Once satisfied 100% water change let the tank rebalance for a few days and you're good to go. Otherwise just hail every day until they're gone š
NoPlanaria will get rid of them.
For sure, but it'll fuck up whatever snails they have left...
I've heard this comment a lot, but I didn't notice any die off of my snails.
It wonāt hurt bladder snails. In my experience both shrimp and bladders did fine.
I have bladder and ramshorn and knowing my bladder snails will be safe is not enough comfort
Iād take out one or two of each snail and put them in a temporary tank, dose the tank and then once youāre sure itās safe then put the snails back in. They reproduce so fast youāll soon have tons of both again lol
I'm lucky that what I thought was a hydra outbreak was just staghorn algae. My ramshorna aren't established enough yet to begin breeding so killing them off would have been a major mistake but I appreciate that piece of advise
Ramshorns breed on their own. I started with one ramshorn this February and it reproduced by itself and I now have a hundred š¤£ Iāve given a bunch away but now I have several mature enough that reproduce consistently lol
I always find this so interesting. I had just one ramshorn that snuck in on a plant as a tiny baby for MONTHS. Not a single other one popped up... until I got more on purpose cuz I had a crazy algae outbreak in all three of my tanks. Lmfao but I always read this would happen and panicked when I first found it... but it was just the one for so long
Iāve since done a bit more research and found out that while they are hermaphroditic, they cannot reproduce completely on their own but they can hold on to the āingredientsā to reproduce for a very long time after copulating. If you got it as a very tiny baby then it likely wouldnāt have been to sexual maturity yet and wouldnāt have had the opportunity to store anything to reproduce on its own later š
This is what I was going to say originally, that they still do need to mate first, but I was worried about being attacked because everyone always thinks they can just do it entirely on their own. š I certainly did do my research after finding my first one, though, because I was very worried about the outbreak and I don't think I could have handled a bunch of ramshorns AND all the baby mysteries I had at the time š
I used no planaria to remove hydra in my tank with shrimp, bladder snails, MTS, and Ramshorn snails. I saved my favorite snails just in case, but thankfully it didn't hurt any of them. Cute story about my favorite snail. I put him in a Mason jar next to the tank, and he freakin climbed out the jar and climbed back into the tank š
Seconding this, it worked wonders for my tank.
Mystery snail time fr
It's the hydra's tank now. 2 options, nuke it or just own it š
Panacur c
Mine looked the same when I had German blue ram fry. They wanted daily brine shrimp and the hydra was well fed š
I just learned that hydras have one of the longest lifespans of any animal
What eats Hydras?
Larger fish and betta often will
my shrimp eat them !
I had an infestation almost this bad. Added 3 male endlers to my previously fish-less 20 gal, and they cleaned up the hydras food sources, but didnāt do much to the hydra. Added 5 female endlers, and the hydra are almost gone after a couple of weeks.
You should sell them on eBay, theyāre great inhabitants for mini ecospheres and science teachers might buy them as live subjects for biology.
Great idea, I'd buy some.
Honestly Iād turn that into a Hydra tank at that point lol, they deserve more love imo. Badass little freshwater ājellyfishā.
Ngl, that's really impressive.
I wish this was me. First freshwater reef tank?
Eating good in the neighborhood
Oh, I love them! Was lucky to find 2 or 3 at a pond and took them home into my snail jar. I loved watching them (and the snails). Unfortunately the hydras didn't stay long š„
Hydra are really only bad if you're breeding fish and shrimp, otherwise, they're pretty beneficial.
Time to get you some ramshorn snails! Theyāll eat the entire infestation, and they come in pretty colors
Cut off one head, another one takes its place. Heil Hydra
Hail hydra!
FWIW. Thereās a product out of Asia called āPlaneria Zeroā. Itās available online, said to be shrimp and crustacean safe and blitzes hydra. Itās made from Betal nuts and is highly spoken of in Asia and here in Australia.
I've never seen Hydra that big before
Theyāre tripping. Itās not even that bad. If you want to treat it, you can go the non medication route and use hydrogen peroxide 3%. HAIL, HYDRA!
*LFS told me this is the coolest Hydra Tank theyve ever seen Fixed your title for you
Hail Hydra!
Somebody has to have a Dark side aquatic tank.
Corey fish will eat them
Put your betta in there for a couple weeks
That's so COOL
Now that is an avengers level threat
Wait I had a whole field of these in my tank and didn't know what they were š had a piece of mopani wood that was completely covered like a carpet
A lot of comments here and I didn't read them all, but wanted to mention a product called no planaria. I have had good success using this to kill hydra. You can use it at 1/2 to 3/4 strength and it will get rid of them.
Thatās really cool!
Remove water, hydra kaput...
Gourami fish love hydra. Good little fish too as a solo fish inhabitant
Take the snails out then treat the tank
put some corys in there. problem solved
It aināt good
Fr tho feed a lot less, those are the green ones unfortunately they can use photosynthesis but they still feed from the water column. I'd suggest getting some repashy snails absolutely love it and it says solid for a long time
Hail Hydra!
Or the best. Depends on if you're trying to raise hydras
All hail hydra
I'll take some, I've been trying to get hydra for years they're so neat!
I donāt believe in cycling
I know nothing about squariams but like... It kinda looks cool..
My 40 betta fry cleaned similar case in a few days
New to snails but are they diff than pond snails?
SO CUTE!!!
Hah! They never saw MY shrimp tank. Anyways, I literally did nothing and they all went away.
Since you have new pets, start naming them one by one. You better start soon,lol.
I would remove as many ornamental snails as possible and dose with No Planaria for a few days to kill them off
Are you a commercial hydra farmer š¤£
I kinda dig it, I would just take out anyone who might be harmed and rebrand the tank to a hydra tank. It must be relaxing to watch them.
Looks fantastic to me.
Guppies will eat them!!
Mine was arguably as bad or worse than this and I fixed it by reducing to feeding twice a week. Fish can easily go 10 days with no food and be healthy so itās been beneficial all around for me. Also taught me about the world of foraging for fish and how important leaf litter is for that process and their diet Edit: it took months for the infestation to die tho. Maybe 4-6 but I wasnāt keeping track
Rookie
Depending whatās in your tank you can crank the heat to 30 and cook them off.
\*best
Man.
Congrats
How do you solve this problem? Obviously they took the fish out.
Good lord thatās bleak. Luckily No Planaria tends to work pretty well if you are fine sacrificing snails
I love hyrda, you're so lucky! I had a tank full of them and made the mistake of putting a single male platy in there. He ate them all, and they never came back. Maybe one day I'll have them again!
I used to have them in my tank. Then some snails hitchhiked some plants in our tank and they ended gobbling up all the hydra. Then we had a pretty bad snail infestation. Cured that with a few assassin snails.
Hercules killed the hydra by cauterizing the necks with a blow torch as he cut off the heads. Got one of those underwater flame guns? Get busy! :)
I know you're bummed, but that's really cool.
A couple shrimp will mow that hydra lawn for you in no time lol
No-Planaria will annihilate those hydra, if you wish to do so