If they are Rhabdocoela then they are absolutely harmless.Gravel vaccing is highly recommended – this sucks out uneaten fish food and poop that detritus worms and other hitchhikers feed on. Do you think I should just remove all decor and throw plants out and just water change a bunch? Panacur is considered plant safe. But I’ll be surprised if the second dose doesn’t do the job – I have witnessed a 2x dose of panacur kill outbreaks where the numbers of planaria were likely in the thousands.Just be mindful that if all of them die at once, and you don’t remove them, then it’s possible the rotting bodies could lead to an ammonia spike.I have these inside my body. Fenbendazole. The tanks contain snails which I will remove for treatment. But if it’s planaria, you would treat the entire tank with the fish inside.Hi! As THE classic aquarium pest, the planarian flatworm belongs to the order Tricladida. Why Dr.’s have such a hang up about treating someone for worms or parasites I do not know. I do know though that a couple of months ago I had Planaria (arrow head) I only saw 1 and it was big! Nothing worked. Now, onto our reader’s specific questions. Based on your article, I’m thinking that may be how they came in and passed between tanks. Your place to find out all about worms, caterpillars, and other (not so) creepy crawlies.A reader from South Africa (Durban, South Africa, more precisely) wrote to us about two hammerhead worms that he found in his home. do i still need to redo everything?today, a week after putting panacur, i took a closer look at the worms and now im not even sure if its planaria. Or should i remove all live animals before treatment? I went away for 4 days and my friend overfed.
They also go eat only after light gets turned off and I suspect the planaria are eating their food beforehand, so there is no hope of reducing population by starving them. Those found in streams, ponds, moist soils, and the sea are the turbellarians. Because they feed on earthworms, hammerhead worms are carnivorous. Thinking it was just another type of earthworm I put it back. However, if it’s already set up, then you will need to cycle the tank again.The Fenbendazole concentration is 22.2% in Panacur C. To match that in pure Fenbendazole, use only 22.2% of what has been recommended.If the desired dosage for the 22.2% concentration is .1 gram/10 gallon, the pure Fenbendazole would only require 0.0222 grams/10 gallon. I like to tell myself they are not Planaria, because they are very small about 2mm and hiding in subtrate still. Activated carbon and a few water changes will see the tank become snail safe in no time.Hello Ian! They not as big as the definitie planaria I managed to get a photo of last week. Why are hammerhead worms entering our reader’s house? How do we prevent them?I live in st. Lucia in the Caribbean and today, for the first time I saw one of those in my yard. Flatworms were probably introduced into the UK in the soil in pot plants sent or brought from New Zealand. No more. I never gravel vac my nano tank, I do about a 50% water change every week, and change my filter cartridge every 4-6weeks. I’ve never seen anything like it. Otherwise, however you see fit. Zebra. Any ideas?Good question, short of putting them in a quarantine tank and monitoring really closely (then shifting them to *another* quarentine tank and repeat, I don’t really have a good solution with this.I’m wondering if panacur will kill plants. !Sounds like you either had detritus worms or rhabdocoela those fish don’t eat planaria. I’ll admit that I do not have any experience using betal nut extract at a half or weaker dose. First, for those unfamiliar with hammerhead worms, here is a little background. A parasite lives off another living thing called a host and can be harmful. My main concern is sharing good information with everyone.How about for scaleless fish? Colored flakes, for instance, can turn a planarian a lovely shade of pink.Besides the color, they are nearly identical in appearance.