I remember reading about trapping this worm/leech by puting in drinking bottle in the tank. This bottle must have some holes in them so the worm/leech crawl in. Put in some meat for bait. Bottle must hv water in them too.

Or you need to migrate all your shrimps or shrimplets into another container then clean up your tank as the mucus is snails eggs....

Good luck!

This post has been edited by lily64my: Feb 27 2012, 08:57 AM

^ I agree with that hehe

also i saw this in mutiple websites:
not sure if it wil help though

This is not plaramia... Is some kind of leech

Hahaha... you have to cover your aquarium then.. high chances for the dragonfly or damselfly to lay eggs in open aquarium...


The way it moves looks like leech to me.. The white mucus layer.... sure is snail egg or worm egg? did you over feed? if yes.. probably those are certain ingredient in the food you throw in might cause fungus bloom.. happen to me cause i thought snail egg or something.. but the "patch" will grow bigger.. you need to remove or scrap it, most importantly.. feed lesser.. will help that if the "patch" isn't egg... haha if those are egg.. just remove or scrap it

I can confirm those are eggs. If it was food that grow fungus I can see it clearly it have alot of white lines all around it. I'm feeding rm3x sink pellet and my shrimps will even actually finish them everytime. I have like 6x-7x babies now. Actually the leech is not harming my shrimps. It's just that it look so gross

Take note that the leech will harm small shrimplets. It is best to clean the whole tank.

Good luck removing them then.. or until you find the mature or the snail that lays it...

how to differentiate high grade and normal grade RCS?
high grade is sakura?
where to buy cheap low grade RCS?

higher grade RCS are often named sakura, fire red

yellow fire, chocolate are also from RCS

low grade or normal RCS are quite easy to get, their color not that nice, some even close to transparent with small red patches around body, low grade RCS male are even more transparent than female one, but dun get confuse with ghost shrimp ya

wild neocaridina is another story

no wonder my RCS cant breed hehe
all females in my tank hehe

thanx for the info ciohbu

how to remove snails from the shrimp tank? tired already to remove it manually?

Get a snail trap.

is snail trap expensive? i nvr seen one hehe
how effective compared to using snail assasin and cucumber?

it works sth like a roach trap. U place a bait in it and they go into the trap, after sometime u will have to remove the trap.
Or u can get a dario-dario and dwarf puffer to eat all the snails...but ur shrimps will be in danger.

puffer too dangerous for my tank hehe...gobble2 my shrimps & fishes
thanx for the info

Sure no problem.

Hehe share some of my cherries.

^ it seemed you got a big shrimp infestation + outbreak in ure tank,
i recommend you to sell them to me haha jk jk

Wow... nice RCS... mine mostly baby... 1/2 year to fill my 1ft aquarium.





This post has been edited by naoki666: Feb 29 2012, 10:18 PM

huhu

my female fire red decided to molt while pregnant.. and some egg stick on the molted shell > <

now trying artificial hatching

How is ur hatching rate for artificial hatching? do share some reviews~