SOBAKEN 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.

I ended up getting Hydra in my tank and my Amano and Otos never seemed settled, they couldn't find a resting spot because of the Hydra. I never saw any Planaria, but I had pest snails galore. I figured I would try No Planaria because it was shrimp and plant safe. I researched and researched this product and read great things and bad so I was very nervous to dose it in my tank. I actually waited a couple days, second guessing whether to even use it. Ultimately, I decided I wanted to see my Amanos out and about again, so I removed my Nerite Snails and dosed my tank. I have a 28 gal Euro Bowfront, I'm guessing around 24 actual gallons in the tank. So, I did 2 scoops which is rated for 20 gallons. After an hour I saw several Nematodes(roundworm) struggling or dead in my tank, I didn't even know they were there, I had never seen them before. After 12 hours, I could see some Hydra deaths, but some were still alive, after 24 I saw very few Hydra alive. 36 hours I no longer had any visible Hydra, and I didn't see any pest snails anymore. I saw what I thought was a dead Amano on my driftwood on the second day, but then I realized it just molted. At the 48 hour mark, since I didn't have anymore Hydra, and never saw any Planaria, I decided it was not necessary to do another treatment. I did a 40% water change on the 3rd day, my Rummynose, Otos, and Amanos were all doing well. The 5th day my quarantined fish were ready for my tank so I did a 25% water change and added 2 German Blue Rams and 10 Ember Tetras, and 3 days later everyone is doing great. In fact my Rummies heads have never been so red, Embers are starting to color up real nice and my GBR are full color and pink bellied. All my plants are doing just fine as well. I got rid of the Hydra, pest snails and the Nematodes I didn't know I had, I feel like I have my tank back in my control again and I will wait about 2 months before I return my nerites, I read where people lost there snails after returning then 1 month later and I don't want to risk that. I might just quarantine my new plants with this in the future, so that I won't get this stuff again in my main tank. Update: Everything is still going great, no deaths, I have since added 3 more Amanos. I did however come across one snail that made it and that was a baby Ramshorn, so maybe it was still in an egg at the time. Be that as it may, I like Ramshorn snails so that is staying in as a tankmate. Very happy with my results about two weeks later.

Works great!

Observations: - There's a measuring spoon hidden in the bag. Be sure to use that so as to dose accurately. Keep in mind if you dissolve it in a small quantity of known volume (e.g. 1 measuring cup of tank water), it's easier to take 1/4 of that liquid to get an accurate partial dose than it is to estimate what 1/4 full of the little spoon is. This pouch of powder is hopefully more than you can use in your entire fish keeping career (if you're a casual hobbyist), so don't be stingy if using this approach to measuring. - The powder is not very soluble. This means if you add it straight to the tank, there may be bits of undissolved powder (in the gravel?) that may persist after many water changes. If you have snails you like, don't return all of the them to the tank until you're sure all the powder is gone/exchanged away/filtered out. Even then, add them back one per day until you know it's safe for the group. - I understand that many species of snail don't do well with this powder. You may need to keep any snails you wish to preserve in a separate tank for several days to weeks until you're 100% sure it's safe to move them back. I removed my snails during treatment out of caution... not sure if can be used to rid tank of pest snails? Watch for ammonia spike if so (remove bodies/water change/gravel vac). - In principle, activated carbon filters remove this medication from the water, so don't use them while treating (defeats the purpose), and be sure to use fresh ones a little longer after your sure the medication "should" be gone. - The powder will lower your pH a little. If you have pH sensitive lifeforms in there, you may want to titrate. Put about a gallon of tank water into a CLEAN (no cleaning chems ever) bucket, and measure the pH. Take a pic to remember the color... pH paper color can change over several minutes or if you touch it to a surface or if it dries out, etc. Add No Planaria powder to your bucket, using enough to treat your whole tank. (It will be more concentrated in the bucket.) Mix well/give it time to dissolve, then measure pH again. Add a little baking soda (or alkaline buffer or whatever you normally use to raise the pH with), mix well, wait a couple minutes, then measure pH again. Repeat until pH is back to the original value. Then you can use the pH adjusted bucket of medicated water to treat your tank without messing up the pH. I did not do this and found that one of my guppies got quite stressed (shimmies) after about 24 hrs and didn't make it. The amano shrimp and other fish seem okay (some of the other guppies seem a little stressed, but will hopefully be okay) but they don't love all the water changes and gravel vacuuming as I try to get rid of the medication. The planaria are now nowhere to be found at 24 hrs (down from finding 1-2 alive ones every time I looked at the tank and two mysterious amano shrimp murders). - The planaria don't die instantly at this dosage, but you should see a lot fewer after several hours/a day or two. Be sure to monitor your ammonia/nitrite levels and gravel vac when you're done with active treatment to prevent an ammonia spike from the die off (especially if you have a large number of them.) My hospital tank had a much worse planaria infestation (could always see at least 10) and this seems to have cleared that up as well. I took a star off because you have to be very careful to use this stuff in a way that doesn't stress your critters due to the poor solubility/pH effects. Then again, planaria are really bad for freshly molted shrimp, so, pick your poison. And because it wasn't clear there's a measuring spoon to go looking for in the bag.

Always good to have on hand! Please read the directions before using! This is not snail safe. Any other freshwater fish/shrimp I’ve kept have been fine but this is known to kill snails. I guess it’s good for pest snail control, too

Used this for hydra. Hydra died and wilted away in 48 hrs at half dose. Half dose is safe for malaysian trumpet snails but dont full dose or they will vanish for the next 2 weeks. Ocassionally I have a few that come out but after i doubled up my half doses and went full dose I almost wiped out my entire MTS colony. Very few survived and I cant even say they are surviving. They will sometimes come to the surface just to sit in one spot for 2 days, so word of the wise, use at your own risk when snails are present.

I am very disappointed. I have planaria in four of my tanks, introduced by hitchhikers on plants I bought online. Initially, I thought they were just detritus worms, but after weeks of examining them, I realized it was the dreaded planaria. As I have shrimp in these tanks, I was looking for a clean, safe way to remove them. After treating all the tanks twice, I still found planaria, as it seems the baby planaria and their eggs survive the dosing. I ended up moving the shrimp out of two tanks and 'nuking' them. I still have planaria in my other two tanks and am waiting for my newer tanks to be cycled to move the remaining shrimp before nuking those as well. The problem with this product is the instructions are very poor. I had to go online to find videos on how much to dose, and even used AI to assist. In addition, videos that were just a year old stated that this product was sold for about half of what I paid ($27.18). As it is listed at $35.12 now, it shows the randomness of inflation for a product that has an expiration date (the ones I purchased expire in a year). Now I'm looking for alternatives, as this product simply did not work.

Worked well for me!