pod kill-off

[imsqueak]

What is the stuff called that will kill all pods in a tank? Is it the flat worm exit? I need to add another rock to my aip breeding tank which already has pods so I'd like to zap the rocks and pods so I can release egg rings into the tank without any preditors (yea, pods are preditors).

Alternative suggestions welcomed.... Should I just fill the tank with ro/di for a certain time to kill the pods but hopefully keep the aips? or are the aips more fragile than the pods? I gotta get the rocks zapped cause that's where the majority of the pods are hiding.

Any ideas? I dont have enough babies in the breeder tank to worry about loosing but I have hundreds in baggies that would likely do better in the tank than in the baggies.

I'm done selling them. If I have more than I can use, I'll post about them. I just want to get about 24-36 to add to my display and I'm done with this nursury thing.

[Fishboy42]

I'm not sure, but I think that Interceptor, the de-worming treatment used for Acro. red bugs, will kill crustaceans. Maybe someone who has used this can chime in...

(When I saw the title to this post, I thought maybe all your pods had died! This happened to me once a few years ago when a Rio pump running a UV unit EXPLODED in my sump (loud bang) and leaked everywhere--all the motile invertebrates crawled out of the rockwork and died, very sad)

[gflat65]

Interceptor will kill them all. It shouldn't hurt your aips either. It will just about kill any crustacean (unles they are buried in the rock).

[cee]

Use Lugols's at a high strength; its a lot easier to get a hold of and should eradicate the pods for ya. You'll need to "force" the Lugol's water into the rock w/ powerheads or something to gut the "buried" ones as Gary points out.

Dave