Tokis-Phoenix
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Heh, long time no see!
Anyway, last night i was giving one of my main tanks a good clean, my plan was to move my hillstream loaches into another tank so i started to remove loads of the large rounded rocks in the tank to go in another tank. To my shock, i discovered loads of leeches under a lot of the rocks- these particular ones are very small (about half a cm long) and a dark grey/brown color. I hate them, they freak my out "shivers". So my new plan of action is to kill the leaches in the tank.
What i do know is that leeches can apparently be very difficult to eradicate from tanks, and that most anti parasitic meds will probably kill them. However i've never encountered leaches before in any of my aquariums ever and i know that anti parasitic meds can vary a great deal in how effective they are at killing certain parasites and things like leeches. So i was wondering if anyone here who has experience/s getting rid of leaches can offer me any advice here as to what are the best things to kill them off with?
The tank in question also has amano shrimp and snails, i can remove them from the tank and put them in another while treating the main tank if that helps. I don't want to strip the tank down and boil everything etc as i don't have anywhere else for the fish to go and i have a lot of small young fry in there which i don't want to expose to cycling tank conditions, so i want to avoid meds which harm the biological filtration of the tank too. I also don't really want to take out/get rid of the plants, as i have a lot of established plants growing directly on stuff like bogwood in the tank, which have taken ages to establish there.
I don't know how long the leaches have been in the tank for, i haven't moved the rocks in the tank for months so the leaches could have been in there for a long time. I dunno how the leaches got into the tank, however i suspect it was probably via plants, as there are few new fish in the tank and all of the new fish that have been introduced to the tank over the 2-3months were quarentined and are in fine health. However the fish seem in good health and i've never seen a leach on any of the fish, soo...What do you advise i do in this situation? Any help/advice/info is much appreiciated
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Anyway, last night i was giving one of my main tanks a good clean, my plan was to move my hillstream loaches into another tank so i started to remove loads of the large rounded rocks in the tank to go in another tank. To my shock, i discovered loads of leeches under a lot of the rocks- these particular ones are very small (about half a cm long) and a dark grey/brown color. I hate them, they freak my out "shivers". So my new plan of action is to kill the leaches in the tank.
What i do know is that leeches can apparently be very difficult to eradicate from tanks, and that most anti parasitic meds will probably kill them. However i've never encountered leaches before in any of my aquariums ever and i know that anti parasitic meds can vary a great deal in how effective they are at killing certain parasites and things like leeches. So i was wondering if anyone here who has experience/s getting rid of leaches can offer me any advice here as to what are the best things to kill them off with?
The tank in question also has amano shrimp and snails, i can remove them from the tank and put them in another while treating the main tank if that helps. I don't want to strip the tank down and boil everything etc as i don't have anywhere else for the fish to go and i have a lot of small young fry in there which i don't want to expose to cycling tank conditions, so i want to avoid meds which harm the biological filtration of the tank too. I also don't really want to take out/get rid of the plants, as i have a lot of established plants growing directly on stuff like bogwood in the tank, which have taken ages to establish there.
I don't know how long the leaches have been in the tank for, i haven't moved the rocks in the tank for months so the leaches could have been in there for a long time. I dunno how the leaches got into the tank, however i suspect it was probably via plants, as there are few new fish in the tank and all of the new fish that have been introduced to the tank over the 2-3months were quarentined and are in fine health. However the fish seem in good health and i've never seen a leach on any of the fish, soo...What do you advise i do in this situation? Any help/advice/info is much appreiciated
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/www.klmbio.com/samples/leeches.jpg
? The substrate in the tank is fine white silica sand, i didn't find any of the critters on the substrate itself, just stuck under the rocks.
/www.bgsd.k12.wa.us/hml/jr_cam/macro...c/flatworm.html
. Are those flatworms harmless to fish?
! My computer shows me the posts from when I visited last(I really need to figure that out). I thought you were still on "Are these flatworms harmless to fish?" 
