Not that its in anyway reasonable to try to kill hundreds of tiny organisms
with a knife, but it is rather comical to picture the population explosion
after the animals' regenerative capabilities kicked in :)
Travis Haas
>From: DasArm_at_aol.com
>Reply-To: nanfa_at_aquaria.net
>To: nanfa_at_aquaria.net
>Subject: Re: NANFA-- planaria
>Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2000 12:34:44 EST
>
>In a message dated 3/24/00 12:07:22 PM Eastern Standard Time,
>BR0630_at_aol.com
>writes:
>
><< So....I'm wondering what's the best way to rid my aquariums of the
>planaria.
> Any solutions out there? Thanks in advance for any insights &
>suggestions.
> >>
>
>Bruce,
>In my old aquarium book I got from my mom and dad (written by Innes) it
>states "Placed in clean water they presently starve. In an immaculate
>aquarium they do not last long. ...their exit can be hurried by the
>permanganate treatment for disinfecting plants. Fishes should be
>temporarily
>removed, but may be returned in about 12 hours without changing the water.
>...they may be trapped overnight on a piece of raw meat, but of course it
>is
>necessary to in some way shield this bait from the fishes. Repeat until all
>are gone. Some small fishes eat planarians. Certainly guppies and dwarf
>gouramies do."
>I'm guessing that you could substitute the gamnbusia for guppies since they
>are so similar (but then again the Heterandrias look at least superfically
>similar in their basic body shape and you stated that they wouldn't eat the
>planarians). Of course you would probably want to temporarily remove the
>Heterandrias from the tank as the gamnbusias would make their life a living
>hell I imagine (don't know if you have the space or inclination to do
>that).
>You were correct in your observation that they appear to be carnivorous.
>The
>Innes book says as much, and also states that they live on microscopic
>organisms.
>Hope this helps,
>Richard Hopper
>Burt, Michigan
>
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