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Okay. That's good. don't forget, you will NEED to do a water change after planaria treatment is used. That is to prevent build up of ammonia when the planaria/nematode/hydra die out.

Just remembered that I took a picture of the one I thought died of bacterial the night before it was blue but hardly moving at about 4 am I got up had a little look and it was still alive but the same hardly moving around 9am I got a call from my partner saying that it was on its side and it was turning colour when I got back for lunch I snapped a picture to show you guys but forgot to send

I obviously don’t know because it’s so small but by the way it moves it reminds me of a leach. If I ever buy plants from eBay I’ll be making sure that they get an alkaline bath first and then rinsed off

Thanks Simon and yeah I don’t change the water unless you guys have suggested it or if the tank needs a little topping up after testing or evaporation. So last night I put a little dose of the Dr Tim into the tank so I turned the filter off so that it could settle down and not be filtered out anyway I left it off during the night and I couldn’t believe the amount of little worms floating around in the tank one big one on the glass I was able to get a picture. So I can’t wait to get the treatment from Simon or my order when it comes

No physical noticeable signs for ammonia poisoning with shrimps.

I have just done your letter with the treatment so that is ready to go next time someone comes, probably sunday though! The photo you sent me of the female shrimp, she has eggs in her saddle (I zoomed in) and looks very healthy so hopefully she will help you restock! Early days yet with her though! Your tank hasn't been going long enough to get an infestation of hydra so that shouldn't really be an issue beyong next week when you treat it! Try to get photos of under 1mb as I 'beelieve' that to be the file size limit? Try one first as you can then add the others by editing the post. All shrimp go pink in the flesh when they die (like cooked prawns) so sometimes that can be misleading, ie that one you thought had a bacterial infection, may not!. Similar with the eggs, they are usually yellow but through the blue shell will probably look greenish, when they develope they usually go grey as the yolk in each is used up! I'm not sure if there is any obvious signs when a shrimp dies from ammonia poisoning/affects, I suspect not, maybe JayC knows? Even if you are now on top of everything and the tank looks settled, as JayC pointed out, the shrimp could be sick or weakened so they may still die occasionally, fingers crossed though that that won't happen after all the hard work you are putting in. Shrimps need stable conditions though so don't go too mad with changing/trying different things etc as that may make things worse! Simon

I’m down to 8 I know that the 9th one died of a bacterial infection as it turned orange and I lost one yesterday morning no signs just found it standing there and i couldn’t see it moving so I took my tweezers to nudge it and it just fell over, that one I don’t know why or how, it honestly looked same as it did when I got it. I’m scanning my tank everyday for any more signs of hydra or anything and not found or seen anything since that once. All my other shrimp are looking good and swimming around sifting through everything that they get there little claws on. I was going to try and take a picture of each one to see if you guys could see anything if you don’t mind that is. I’ve discovered how to change my picture file size so I can send pics again lol

I gave you instructions in your "Not sure" post. 2 days after the first treatment. No more than 3 days at the max.

How long after I use it. I’ll do ammonia tests but just so I have an idea.

Yeah But only about 30% water change and that was it. I needed it to rain to do some more, so today I got some distilled water to top up the tank to the right level because it’s been really hot here and absolutely no rain. This year’s weather has just been different

Yeah, looks close to 0. It doesn't hurt to add the One and Only. You can go with recommended dose. Did you do any of the water changes I recommended prior to this?