Genchem No Planaria Shrimp Safe Planaria Hydra Killer Shrimp Fish Planted Tank

I bought this to kill the hydra in my freshwater tank. It sure did the job. I took out the snails (I like) as the directions instruct, and placed them in the hospital tank I already had set up. Did the treatment. Half of what the dosage says because it was only to kill hydra. I did the %25 water change and added a carbon filter for three days. Added the snails back and in a day they perished. Did a few more %30 H2O changes, added another carbon filter. Let that work for a week. Added more snails and they were sentenced to death. I ended up changing over to new sponge filters, taken out the original filter and media that’d been in the tank during the treatment. Finally, my latest, and only added 1 snail, just to test, has survived. I’d had some hitchhiking pest snails on plants so I’m glad those probably perished, which I am happy about. So besides killing Planaria, NoPlanaria will get rid of hydra and those pesky pest snails you didn’t want that have infested your tank. A few months later and I am now treating my tank for planaria. Glad I already had the product on hand. I would recommend to anyone who is adding plants to their tanks to have this on hand. I do treat the plants prior to adding to the tank to remove snails, snail eggs and algae using tank salt and hydrogen peroxide, or alum on more delicate mosses as the salt and hydrogen peroxide kills moss. I’ll usually treat with the salt and peroxide for 15-20 minutes before adding to the tank. But i now know to quarantine longer for planaria. I’m a newbie back into this aqua scaping hobby using plants. Lessons I’m learning. And now can recognize the white balls on the plants as their egg clusters. I recently bought a plant which apparently had Planaria eggs so now I’m on day 4 of treatment. At first I went with the directions but wasn’t entirely killing the worms. I went back here to re read some reviews on how it worked for others. It looks like I’ll be continuing daily treatment until they’re gone. Once I spotted the first batch of worms I immediately knew what they were so I immediately removed the plants which visibly had white balls which are the egg clusters, so as to prevent any more from hatching in the tank. Upon re reading the directions on the package, it does say to continue dosing every 24 hours if the infestation is high which is what I will keep doing. I just did a gravel vacuum in the area where the worms seem to be staying in, to remove the dead worms and live ones as well. Hopefully removing the mulm in that area and skipping fish feeding to keep debris light and less for the worms to feed on. Just did a light dose of NoPlanaria early afternoon and will add more this evening. I realized that adding the powder to a little bit of tank water first dissolved the powder and this makes it easier to get the medication into the area of the tank where the worms are hiding. At first i was adding powder directly to the tank but it wasn’t dissolving straight away. This might be part of the reason why the worms weren’t being killed right away. I also turn off the filter for a few minutes to allow the meds to settle down into the substrate before it gets cycled throughout the tank. I think this helps a lot because shortly afterwards I observed the worms became lethargic and dying. Bingo I also went in with a scaping tool and mixed up the substrate a little to allow the meds to go down further. I’ll keep on doing the dosing in this way until I no longer see anything. And will of course repeat the recommended dosing in two weeks. I’ll be back to let you know what happens. Update; Now on day #10 of planaria treatment. I’ve been finding new hatchlings, at least I believe that that’s what they are. I believe that the medication is killing them because I don’t see any larger ones and numbers are still low from what I can see. I’m very frustrated at this point. I’ve done two big water changes as has been suggested by other users and will be doing another today. I’m convinced that this medication is not working as it should. By now after treating per instructions and dosing daily, sometimes lessor on some days and a full dose last night, I’m surprised to still see a few squirming around in the substrate. So, I’ve ordered fenbendazole and sincerely hoping to get better results. I’ll pop back in with results in a few days to let you know if I get results from NoPlanaria.

So I have had shrimp for maybe a year now cherry and green rili shrimp noticed the little green bits of algae ( really was green hydra) ignored it for the most part then week after I noticed I started to have the same weird green algae bits in the green rili tank struggling to figure out if it was a weak hair algae or something else after a few more weeks of figuring out what they were the cherry shrimp had literally hundreds of hydra everywhere and there was a heavy amount in the rili tank figured from research hydra was the cause of my shrimp production slowing down so I began researching solutions found this I was skeptical because some people said it didn’t work at all even when they were heavy handed with it a bit ( so was I when I initially used it the first time didn’t harm my shrimp at all that I have noticed ) and it didn’t work what so ever quite a few saying such but since it wasn’t completely breaking the bank I took the chance and when I tell you all from the first dose out of the three within a few hours I could see the hydra seemingly lazy / being affected by the treatment in both tanks by the second treatment they went from hundred to maybe a few dozen third treatment wiped my tanks clean of hydra and also I have seen reports that it would harm snails .. a few of mine pasted but didn’t wipe them out what so ever maybe 3-6 snails pasted which wasn’t much out of 40 or so snails the others are still doing very well I would give it a try if you also have a hydra problem the only issue I have is the instructions are set for liters instead of gallons so had to do the math for my tanks as I converted liters to gallons

I was combating hydra on a 60 gallon and 24 gallon. Used half the recommended dosage on both tanks and worked perfectly! No fatalities on my shrimp or bladder/ramshorn snails, that I noticed. Did a water change on day 4 on the 60g &my 24g on day 3 (only needed 2 days worth of medication since it wasn’t a huge outbreak of hydra), added carbon to my filters to pick up any remaining product in the water and everything is back up and running like usual.

It worked to get rid of the planaria but I ended up having to breakdown and rinse out the tank after the treatment, couldn’t remove the no planaria with water changes, still had a coating on the tank. Luckily I was only treating a 10 gallon quarantine tank, so the breakdown and cleaning wasn’t a huge deal. It’s a bare bottom tank, the bottom had a layer of no planaria on it. There were snails in the tank, I removed them before the treatment, but wasn’t confident to put them back in the tank after the treatment was completed and water changed due to the lingering coating of no planaria, so that’s why I ended up cleaning out the tank anyways. The no planaria doesn’t dissolve well in water. I tried adding it both ways, mixing it with a cup of tank water before adding, and adding directly to tank. Both ways the no planaria didn’t really dissolve in the water. It just kind of coats everything in the tank. So the no planaria worked, it killed all the planaria, but the cleaning out the tank after was not ideal.

Works perfectly. Btw for anyone who needs to know, theres a spoon in there (I didn’t know for a long time)

I bought some plants for my new aquarium and put them in my tank without any type of quarantine or bleach dip (rookie mistake). I quickly ended up with a bad case of hydra in my shrimp tank. After doing some research online, I discovered this product. I only have a 5 gallon tank, and the recommended dose is for 50 litres (13.2 gallons), so I went with about 1/3 of a spoonful for my first dose. I put the powder in a small glass with a little bit of tank water and stirred it well before pouring the dissolved powder solution directly into the tank. I could not see any active hydra the next morning, but I did one more even smaller dose after 24 hours just to be safe. I then did a 50% water change and had no further hydra issues in that tank. The product did not affect the shrimp negatively in any way. Helpful Tips: MAKE SURE YOU REMOVE ALL SNAILS YOU WANT TO KEEP BEFORE USING - This product is deadly to all snails, including "worker snails" like nerites and assassin snails. In addition, you will probably want to wait multiple water changes before adding the snails back into the tank in case any residue of this ends up trapped in your substrate. REMOVE CHEMICAL FILTRATION BEFORE USE - Remove any active carbon, Purigen, or other chemical filtration before adding this product to your tank, as the chemical filtration could remove the medicine from the water before it has a chance to take care of the planaria or hydra. KILL PLANARIA AND HYDRA BEFORE THEY CAN GET IN YOUR TANK - Before adding any new plants into your aquarium, quarantine the plants in a solution of 1 tbsp alum (from the spice section of your grocery store) dissolved in one gallon of water for three days. This will kill all planaria, hydra, snails and snail eggs on the plants as well as any other pests and most algae.

I decided to leave a review since I found another way that works better plus, I don’t want others to waste time like how I did. There are two similar products, one is called No Planaria and the other one is called Planaria Zero. There is not much difference between the two and they are using same ingredients. Planaria Zero has much smaller spoon than they are stated in the instructions and this is severely misleading. I put five Planarias in each of two glass cups (used for science experiments) and used both products three times the recommended dose but they did not work. Then, kept adding more dose somehow killed two of the five and rests looked sluggish. After looking at this result, I kept adding more doses into my 16 gallon fish tank. After a day or two, these decaying organic matters turned into something else and caused algae bloom in the tank. It was so severe that all the decorations and plants were surrounded by thick white jellies. The filter became clogged about three times. I just had to take out all my shrimps, crayfish and fishes and restart the tank. Before trying these natural products, I used pure 99.9% fenbendazole powder in capsules. This also does not work since they do not dissolve in the water. Maybe, the tiny worms just do not need to swallow the large particles. After few weeks, when I had to treat some detritus worms, this time, I used a liquid fenbendazole suspension that was called Safe-guard and this literally “killed” the worms in front of my eyes. The treatment has to be continued at least for thee days since there are newly hatching eggs everyday. A research says it takes roughly five days for the fenbendazole to disintegrate which means treating for more than five says will maintain saturated amount of fenbendazole in the fish tank.

I bought it for my crystal red shrimp tank since I've noticed severe planaria infestation in it. While shrimps enjoying their environment and seems to be not bothered by planaria presence, there were no baby shrimps ever in that tank. So, after some reading I decided to try this product. There is no instructions on the package except some dosage suggestions for the 50 gallon aquarium and removal of carbon filter before use, but from reading reviews I've attempted to do next: per instructions, on first day you should dose 1 tablespoon i.e. 20g per 50 gallon, i. e. 2g per my 5 gallon. I used 1/4 of a teaspoon measuring spoon, i. e. 5g/4=1.25g for the first day dose. No effect was seen on the next morning, so I partially changed water and added second day dose as 1/2 of my 1/4 teaspoon, i. e. about 0.75g. By the end of second day I noticed struggling planaria and my shrimp getting revenge and eating these bugs. I also noticed one of my cardinal tetras dead, but it was pretty old, so I thought it is an accidental victim. On third day I again did a partial water change with some gravel cleanup to harvest planaria remains and added just 1/3-1/4 of my 1/4 teaspoon. Unfortunately, on the very next day 3 shrimps were found dead, with one more died on following day. I did one more partial water change and returned carbon immediately to minimize effect for the rest of my lifestock. One more tetra found dead today, with no shrimps seen - my fear I have lost the rest either because they were eating poisoned planaria or due to the absence of the carbon and more frequent than usual water changes. My only hope that after feasting on dead worms some of them went deeper in the grass to molt - it is hard to see im my heavily planted aquarium. So, it indeed kills parasitic worms, but either dosage is incorrect, or it also changes some water parameters which affect both shrimps and fish. By the way, reported by some damage to the snails did not worked in my case - although I relocated mist of my ramshorns to other aquarium, there were few which I did notice. All these few seems to be still alive and active as usual. I will keep an eye to my system, but next time will relocate my precious shrimps somethere before treating the tank with this stuff. Indeed kills the worms, but kills shrimps as well.