Re: couple of questions

[David Sanchez <barbax2@yahoo.com>]

Hydra is easy to get rid of! Just use salt! I use
about two tablespoons to a ten gallon tank for about a
week and bada bing! There gone, no need to use all
those nasty chemicals good old salt works just fine.
Good luck to you Paul and have a nice honey moon.

--- D Kinyon <dkinyon@shentel.net> wrote:
> Paul,
> 
> Congratulations.
> 
> All that algae would probably have helped while you
> were away- maybe you can
> grow some back.
> 
> As for the hydra, I had a problem with them some
> time ago, and the pet store
> stuff just seemed to aggravate them. There's a
> veteranarian product called
> Panacur that will kill the hydra and not hurt the
> fry. It's used to treat
> parasitic worms in cats & dogs. Just sprinkle a very
> small amount on top of
> the water, and the hydra don't come back. I think I
> heard about the stuff on
> this list. Now your only problem is finding a vet
> that will sell you some.
> 
> Take Care
> 
> Don
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul Evans <pm_evans@yahoo.com>
> To: apisto list <apisto@admin.listbox.com>
> Date: Saturday, May 08, 1999 8:13 PM
> Subject: couple of questions
> 
> 
> >Hi all,
> >
> >I am getting married next Saturday and will be gone
> >for about ten days.  Is there anything I should do
> >for my six week old fry to help them out while I am
> >gone?  They will not be fed.  They are about 1cm SL
> >and growing quickly.  They are in a planted tank.
> >
> >The afore mentioned planted tank was being overrun
> >by hair algae.  I left the lights off for about
> >five days to kill some of the algae.  When I turned
> >the lights on this morning most of the hair algae
> and
> >BG algae was gone.  However, there wase a whole ton
> >of these green filaments about 1cm with finer
> >filaments
> >on the ends.  I noticed them before but there was
> not
> >many.  The look like umbrellas that have been blown
> up
> >in the wind.  This morning I saw one of these
> capture
> >a bbs and then realized that they are hydra.  At
> the
> >LFS this afternoon I saw some stuff made by Sera
> that
> >is supposed to take out snails and hydra.  It looks
> >like it is basically a copper salt.  Does this work
> >without harming the fry?  BTW, I am just now
> looking
> >at the information on thekrib.  The hydra don't
> seem
> >to bother the fry but I could see them doing so
> when
> >the fry were first free swimming.
> >
> >Paul
> >
> >
>
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David Sanchez
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