using azoo filter media, i'm using that in 2 of my tank as well., so you know where the planaria come from?

probably from your new moss, plant , wood or shrimp. Nuke them before they take over your tank.
To cycle faster , add in air pump, provide more oxygen, bacteria need to utilize o2 to grow.

Heat build up maybe a problem cos this tank have cover. If in aircon room or hooked with chiller then no problem. or least put a fan.
Normal shrimp like cherry/malaya can tolerate upto 30'c-31'c but won't be optimum.

roller ceramic and carbon ball ? you mean those filter media ? if so just change/wash it , if it have been used in marine setup, as the BB in marine tank
won't survive when switch to freshwater anyway.

wild neocaridina and male cherry also colorless, have to wait and see.
No matters how you select breed fire red, you will still get cherry like baby, just assign them into reject tank.

This post has been edited by arrow: Oct 15 2013, 11:13 PM

Sorry. have not post you the no planaria powder. will do so asap.

yes, should remove unless you wanna try artificial egg hatching
->> http://www.planetinverts.com/Artifically%2...ing%20Eggs.html

ph6 still ok, the most important is test whether tank cycled or not.
If tank cycled , this few days before your shrimp arrive , do few large water change about 70% to further remove excess nutrients of the soil.

Really like your moss carpet, just don't like the idea of having those stainless steel mesh underneath it.

You can share your shrimp tank in the making picture now even without shrimp yet.

quite ok, lot of space to view the shrimp, for future if you will to add in any new plant, test it a one shrimp in a bucket first before put
into your tank as some plant esp the HC seem to leech with pesticide and ferts that fatal to shrimps, you risk wipe out all the shrimp.
In the future you need to cover those filter intake with steel mesh or sponge to prevent shrimplets to be sucked in and killed.

Those fish if too big will target the shrimplets but will just reduce the breeding rate if you have enough space for some baby shrimp to hide.
else remove is also a good option, however you can keep them with smaller sized fish like dwarf or spotted rasbora.
The rule is if the fish mouth big enough to fit a shrimplet, they will eat them.
Of course aggressive in nature fish is a NO NO in shrimp tank.

Your temperature may on the high side as running two filter will contribute to higher temperature, and you may as well run a bigger filter.
adding a aquarium fan is always an option.

stainless steel mesh won't rust, but the edge are quite sharp to my liking.

Yes. They normally sold tight to green plastic mesh.

Just myself have phobia about finger getting hurt and shrimp get pierce by those netting.

don't transfer the moss or even the water, planaria and eggs may hitchhiking on it.
you should receive the no-planaria on wed, nuke THEM(planaria) ,trap is useless.
How many Liters of water of your planaria tank ?

This post has been edited by arrow: Oct 21 2013, 02:19 AM

got a front photo shoot of your tank , picture too dark , can't really see how it look like.

normal 2ft should be around 60L water, you can use formula tank length x tank width x tank height in cm /1000 after minus out substrate and tank top blank space.
That mean if you have 5cm soil thick and 3 cm blank space on tank top, total you minus 8cm from tank height.

1g no-planaria treat 50L water for first dose , then half dose on 2nd day and 1/4 dose on third day. (treatment took 3 days).
Think i give you around 2 to 4g.

all these new purchase will cost you around RM0.4k.
OEBT'S get the pregnant one if any, buy 1 free 20 if survive.

This post has been edited by arrow: Oct 21 2013, 02:50 PM

unfortunately no, Nematodes are immune to most treatment, they exist in all tank anyway. They getting less if you control your feeding and vacuum the substrate but you can't eliminating them.
Some fish may eat them if they float in the water. Be sure to check if it is planaria? planaria got triangle head and normally gliding around.

Shrimps just too fragile to avoid casualty, at least you able to bring them home alive, i once bought 10 sulawesi shrimp at RM18 each , died in bag halfway home