Fighting a losing battle need help

[the big kahuna]

Why not take the filters and hook to the 20 and treat the filter?

Sent from my SCH-S960L using MonsterAquariaNetwork App

All my fish cant fit in a 20 I was concerned about my loaches if I went the medication route

I had a Planaria out break once and while the problem didn't go away quickly I was easily able to rid the tank of them without meds. Just as you figured planaria outbreaks are usually caused by overfeeding and are usually most apparent after a water change. If you clean the filter out and give the substrate a thorough sifting to rid it of built up waste and keep on the reduced feedings they should disappear, you just need to be a little patient. In my opinion it's better then using a med to fix a problem as you'll be fixing the root cause by changing your aquarium maintenance and routines and therefore preventing further outbreaks.

I have tile in the tank. But I agree with the patient part, I was looking for the quick fix. I only feed every 3 days and I immediately remove any uneaten pellets

Just do your maintenance Lorenzo. It'll clear up eventually.

I really do keep up with them. 3x a week religiously

...or you could sell me your loaches and medicate like crazy

I knew that line was coming lol

 

[the big kahuna]

Coppersafe or Cupramine...I've used them both in the past in tanks with the fish that you listed above,except the loaches of course.

I will give a little more time for planaria to go away if it doesn't then I will look into those products

Just keep a good cleaning regime - clean out the filter material - and it'll take care of itself over time. Don't risk your fish by medicating for no real good reason.

Do you have adequate filtration ?

180 with an fx5 and 3 ac110s. (had 2 fx5s but one died)

 

[Aquanero]

It's better to get rid of them slowly than having a mass die off. Stick with the substrate vacuming and filter maint. along with reduced feeding. You reall want to avoid using meds in this case.

 

[joe jaskot]

There is a product called no planaria that will rid your tank of them.

 

[Gill Blue]

quit feeding the loaches and they should eat the planaria. and they'd be healthy too, since you've gut loaded them with fish food.

 

[spiff44]

Other than contributing to the bioload a bit are those planaria even dangerous? I had them in my tanks before and I just figured they were part of the rest of the slurry of life that lives in the substrate. They never caused any problems as far as I could tell. I figured that most tanks had them.

 

[Charney]

Don't medicate for this. Give it time with good maintenance.

 

[tlindsey]

Planaria won't harm fish , reduce feedings

 

[jefferymoorhead]

I had this issue a few years ago in my 300 gallon and like many of you enthusiast I didn't want to medicate the tank so I did gravel cleaning every other day for 2 weeks. That was roughly 75-100 gallons of water change each time. And also only fed as much as could be eaten in 2 min.