Hydras

[FloFlow]

Hey there. So I have noticed tiny baby hydras appearing in my fishless tank. Since it's fishless I think it's the perfect time to try a treatment for it. From what I can see, copper treatment can work but it can stay in the substrate which would hurt shrimps if I want to get them in the future. I saw that a treatment called no planaria is effective, but I can't find a way to get my hands on that in any affordable way (unless a store in the region carries it).

I was wondering if anything had any suggestion for treatment. Since the tank is fishless, I can use different products, since I can just keep it fishless and do water changes until the water parameters are safe enough to bring in livestock.

Update: I discovered that the reason no planeria is so expensive is because the company went under and there is now a much more affordable product that does the same thing called I discovered that the product no planeria is expensive because the company went under and is no longer releasing products and there is a much more affordable alternative called: Z-1 Planarian and Hydra Cleaner. Putting it in an edit in case someone else is looking for a solution.

[Lucky1]

Apparently one can also use panacur c, but I have not tried it. When I get Hydra, it is usually because I am feeding a lot of food (e.g. a fry tank). It usually goes away when there is less for it to eat. A good cleaning / heightened water change cycle has generally kept it down, though I suppose that it is still present in the aquarium and would recur if conditions were right for it...

[FloFlow]

I did end up using panacur C after all since it was much cheaper than the original product I was looking at. After two treatments it worked like a charm, no more hydras and no more planarias. I was sad because it seemed to have decimated the copepods population and I definitely want those in my aquarium but, surprise, as it turns out copepods are hardy little creatures and the population came back up.

I kind of wished it had gotten rid of the ramshorn snails that hitched a ride through one of the plants I put in the tank but they are still there. I've just accepted that they're gonna be part of my tank now. They're mini ramshorns, they don't get much bigger than 2-3 millimeters, but I really wanted to avoid any kind of snail that can have an out of control population. Nothing much I can do about them it seems, unfortunately. Eh, I will survive.

[charlie]

Happy to hear.
Where did you get the panacur c from ?

[FloFlow]

I got it from an online pet medication store, it was pretty cheap. But technically any vet office will have some.