Quick Quarantine Question...

A bleach dip, one part bleach to 19 parts water, dip for 30 seconds then rinse in a bucket of clean water with dechlorinator. Don't dip any sensitive plants like mosses.

Unfortunately, I have quite a bit of moss to pick through. I've got about 4-6 pieces of small plants I got in shrimp shipments and kept because I liked. Then I have a few from the LPS, and then there's the moss.

I had the infected stuff in my quarantine tank, but decided to redo it a few hours ago and use it for an actual habitat as I just picked up a 3 gallon bowl this morning I'll use for quarantine. Just want to make sure the snails and worm(s) are gone before getting it in the big tank. I know they won't hurt anything, but I'm a stickler for a clean shrimp only tank

I use a potassium permanganate dip to kill snails. Just enough to turn the water a medium dark fuchsia color, which isn't very much. I keep them in there 20 minutes.

It takes patience, but picking out individual strands of mosses for growth in individual containers (pickle jars) works well.

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It takes patience, but picking out individual strands of mosses for growth in individual containers (pickle jars) works well.

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Patience is the key word lol. I ended up "trying" to go through it strand by strand but there was just to much of it. I've gotten most of them I think. I've not seen any worms and only 2 baby snails which i promptly scooped and sent into the exile tank..

flubendazole kills both snails and worms, levaisole hcl kills the few worms and parasites flu doesn't and both are harmless to plants

I get mine here
http://www.inkmkr.com/Fish/