My first treatment with flubendazole

James0816

James0816

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I recently got some flubendazole to treat for Hydra. I wanted to test it first so I used it on one tank where I have a major outbreak of Planaria. I treated a 10g with just under 1/8tsp on Friday. Been under the weather of late and just went down to check the tank.

Before treatment, I would find Planaria all over the place. Skimming across the surface of the water, all over the glass and such. As of right now...I only spotted (3). I just turned the lights on so hopefully this is a good sign. I couldn't find any Hydra in this tank.

Tiger shrimp appear to be fine. I still see MTS on the glass and cruising around. The Bladder snails seem ok as well.

Will check again tomorrow. If all goes well, I will treat the other tanks accordingly.
 
Interested to see how it works on hydra. My heavily planted show tank had a hydra outbreak once before, but i was too afraid to treat the tank for fear of harming some of the delicate inhabitants. I ended up dividing the fish amongst other tanks and kind of just let the tank deteriorate until i finally cleaned it out and set it back up months afterward.
 
saram521 said:
Interested to see how it works on hydra. My heavily planted show tank had a hydra outbreak once before, but i was too afraid to treat the tank for fear of harming some of the delicate inhabitants. I ended up dividing the fish amongst other tanks and kind of just let the tank deteriorate until i finally cleaned it out and set it back up months afterward.
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Hydra don't do well without food. As long as there are no fry or small live foods, IME, they'll die off in about 3-4 weeks. I think my nerites and BN ate any they moved across, too. I don't know if shrimplets would be safe or not; I didn't have any in the tank at the time. Hopefully, you get the white hydras, not the green. The greens have algae in their bellies, supplementing their hunting, so they can live longer without any kills.
 
Checked last night and still found a couple of Planaria. No visible signs of Hydra in the test tank. Things looking good to treat the other tanks. I was also advised to treat all my tanks even if they don't have the Hydra just to be safe. Not sure I want to do that though but we'll see.
 
I've used fenbendazole (Panacur C) in several tanks. I had to dose a 10G 3 times to rid it of "worms." I've seen shrimp chew up pieces of the de-wormer and expel the bits, and I haven't lost one from dosing a tank yet. If you had tons of planaria, you might want to do a water change. If you are still seeing planaria, you may need to dose the tank, again (as I did). I did a water change first and then re-dosed. Voila, no squiggles!
 
Not to hijack the thread, but where do planaria come from? I know I got my hydra from a batch of Top Fin prepackaged plants. Guaranteed snail free, but not pest free.
 
authmal said:
Not to hijack the thread, but where do planaria come from?
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Typical sources. They will hijack there way in on plants and stuff. In my case it was used substrate that I had purchased. At first it didn't bother me but then their numbers just ballooned. And this was with very minimal feeding of the shrimp. Decided it was time for action.
 
Day 7 and still no sign of Hydra or Planaria. Tomorrow I will do a 50% water change and add carbon to the filter. We'll see where it goes from there.
 
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