Thread: Help! Hydra!
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Old December 14th 05, 08:20 PM posted to rec.aquaria.freshwater.misc
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Default Help! Hydra!

Charles wrote:
On Mon, 12 Dec 2005 22:17:31 GMT, Elaine T
wrote:


I've never had trouble with hydra before. So where do they first crop
up? In my 2.5g shrimp tank, with a female holding eggs! *mutter* They
must have come in on some plants I grabbed from outside.

I'd prefer not to move the shrimp. They're red cherry shrimp and very
sensitive to changes in water conditions. That means no copper or
fluke-tabs for the time being.

Putting a Hydra eater in the tank temporarily seems ideal, but I'm
afraid a Trichogaster spp. gourami would eat the shrimp right along with
the Hydra. I read on the Krib that mystery snails will eat Hydra. Does
anyone have any experience that agrees? Are mystery snails likely to
leave baby shrimp alone? Are there any other small, mild-mannered hydra
eating creatures?




Make a project of getting good photos of the hydras. I tried that,
the hydras disappeared.


ROFLMAO! My camera is terrible for aquatic photography. Maybe that's
just the cure!

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