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The eggs you see being carried by the female have already been fertilised. She is carrying them until they hatch. The male responsible is long gone. She might be giving other males the cold shoulder because she is not receptive and wont be until the next moult by which time the current load of eggs will generally have hatched. Occasionally the timing will get skewed such that the female moults before all the eggs have hatched and the eggs will be shed with the old exoskeleton but generally speaking this isn't "the plan".

Set up the new tank how you like it to end up looking and start the Nitrogen cycling process. Add another sponge filter in the existing 15Ltr tank right now, so bacteria start to grow on it. This filter will be transferred to the new tank after a month. Any water change done in the 15ltr tank should be dumped into the new 64ltr tank. Once the new tank is cycled and the parameters are close to the old tank, you can start acclimation of the shrimp to the new tank.

Thanks this is why I check with you guys first before doing anything cheers

I think you shouldn't do a water change whilst doing the treatment (will dilute the treatment) for planaria, which is a week I think, then you can do one, Tuesday/Wednesday. By then there shouldn't be any planaria left so I don't think I would do another treatment at this stage, but at least you have it to hand should it recur at some point in the future. As grubs points out about the eggs, and you had very few hydra anyway, I would avoid doing a large water change though, as that can cause a shrimp to moult and you don't want that happening to the one carrying the eggs! Simon

Everything seems to be yeah I’m not seeing anything I stopped doing the baths about two days ago and I’ve put them back into the tank with the others today actually and I’ve not seen any increase in the hydra I do still have one tiny tiny one on the glass but I’m positive it’s getting smaller and not bigger so I’m hoping that’s sorted. I’m due to give it a water change but I was wondering if I could/should give it another treatment or would that be a bad idea. all my stats are where they should be.