how to kill seed shrimp

[customdrum]

i have tried to kill off a seed shimp problem in a 10g tank i have with no luck. how do you kill these little demons? there is nothing in the tank there in but them so is there anyone who knows how to kill them?
i tried the dog dewormer in total excess and they loved it lol
i also gravel cleaned the tank and took all the water out and let it sit dry for 2 weeks, i re started the tank and there back again in the 100's theres no food or fish in the tank since i set it up, i want the seed shrimp dead 1st

is there anything that will kill them?

there only in this 1 tank and i want them dead lol

 

[DoctaQ]

well, if youre willing to go there i bet copper would polish them off
just seeing the extreme that youre willing to go to.

for saltwater there is a med called flatworm exit that usually kills off a lot of pods in a tank, might help you. or you could just try salt

 

[customdrum]

only thing i have sitting around i found is tetra algae control, it says it will kill inverts and crustaceans like crabs, shrimp and crayfish.
i just overdosed it so maybe it will kill them off. ill just over dose it a few days and see this week if there dead and do a complete water change and gravel vac and restart the whole tank over again, its only a 10g so im not worried about cycling it and as long as there dead.

everyone says there harmless but when there everywhere there a pest to me.

 

[Mustang Boy]

well if they are harmless i would leave them in there and use them as fish snacks for your fish to eat

 

[customdrum]

the fish wont eat them, i had guppys in that tank for awhile and they never ate them they tripled in numbers.
maybe i need to sell some lol

 

[kj5kb]

Rather than chemo-ing the tank...and maybe making it unsuitable for future inverts...

Why not cycle it (or add a cycled) filter and add a few fish?

I bet Gambusia would have a field day in there...

Or...dump the gravel, fill the tank, add a cup or 2 of bleach and let the filter run for a few days. Then empty, rinse, dechlor, add new gravel. I would think THAT would do it, and it's cheap.

 

[jamesstill84]

I've never heard of "seed shrimp"...

 

[customdrum]

i have been told that nitrate will kill them if i over dose it som im gonna bomb them tomorrow with nitrate, well see if they live then lol

 

[brook392]

I've tried to use platys to get rid of it, and didnt work out. mosr fish wont eat them because of seed shrimp hard shells. Seed shrimp is ok in the tank in small numbers, but as a swarm they eat plants as well, They have devoured my water sprite from roots to the top. i do not have any snails or other herbivore fish in the tank

 

[Kannan Fodder]

Gambusia do in fact eat them. I never saw seed shrimp in my old ponds when I had gambusia to control mosquitoes, but once the fish were gone, the seed shrimp took over. I caught a bunch and put them in my old 20g which housed a few gambusia, and never saw a single seed shrimp. Tried this a couple more times. Gambusia are voracious!