Hi!
Last night I found cladogonium on one of my females. I can't get her to stop moving long enough to take a decent photo, but I'm positive it's clado. I need help with what to do next...! Please help!
My tank... I recently had many babies born and I've been afraid to clean not wanting to suck them up, so I've gotten too much waste settling to the floor. I've seen advice on here that leaving a dirty tank is better than cleaning for the babies. My tank perhaps a bit too saturated with plants and snails. (No fish.) My nitrates and nitrites look low on the test strips. But I've been getting a lot of random adult deaths lately.
What I've done: The algae is green at the moment, not yellow, but fuzzy looking in her undercarriage. I put her in quarantine immediately. I see no other affected shrimps so far and I have other berried females, and again, lots of little babies floating around. After I discovered this I assumed my dirty tank must be to blame and poked around sucking up old food and snails with a turkey baster, trying to be careful of the babies, but I killed one in the process. I dripped some new water in, probably like 15%. (I use RO.) I have seen the panty hose solution for tank cleaning, but I don't get how that works because doesn't the hose also filter out the gunk you're trying to suck up?
Solutions:
I saw on aquariumbreeder.com a recommendation to get Kordon Tid-Ich plus. I guess you saturate a food pellet with the medication, let it try, then pop it into your tank. Can anyone vouge for this? I ordered it. Do you do this for your whole tank? Just the quarantined infected shrimp?
Some say to use hydrogen peroxide. Same question?
My current plan is to do these treatments for the infected female and to wait and see what happens to the rest of them. Should I just assume that it has spread everywhere in the tank and treat everything? Will this stuff harm the babies? Anything else?
Thanks so much! I've worked hard on this tank but I'm pretty new at this stuff.