Re: Planaria Problems

["Patricia Ceger" <pc6@acpub.duke.edu>]

Thanks everyone.
The reason that I think the planaria were in the food is that I literally
saw the damned things crawling out of the cone feeder, and they hadn't been
there the day before.  However, I have started doing daily water changes,
rather than weekly, and hopefully that will do the trick.
Just in case it doesn't, does anyone know whether fluke tabs will harm my
plants?  I know that a number of medications "melt" plants.
Thanks,
Patricia
P.S. I am trying to get my trio of A. "papagei" to spawn.  Can anyone give
me some advice on that?  They are in a 20-gallon long, with lots of caves.
Temp. is 79 degrees F., and the water is peat filtered to 6.3.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Bailin Shaw" <bailin_shaw@hotmail.com>
To: <apisto@listbox.com>
Sent: Monday, December 10, 2001 6:54 PM
Subject: Re: Planaria Problems


> The only problem with planaria is their egg eating habit.  I believe it's
> been mentioned before, but they will eat the eggs of apistos.  If you're
> trying to spawn the fish, you may want to eliminate the problem with fluke
> tabs like was mentioned previously.  Those work quite nicely.
>
> Bailin Shaw
> DFW Aquatic Plant Club
> www.angelfire.com/tx5/dfwaqplants/
>
>
> >
> >Hi Patricia
> >
> >I agree with what Chris said about Planaria. I had a heavy infestation in
> >one
> >of my tanks and was able to eliminate it with Fluke Tabs which also work
> >great on Hydra. It didn't bother the baby fish (Betta smaragdina) or the
> >few
> >plants I had in the tank.
> >
> >Tom Wojtech
> >
> >
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