Uploaded March 2014 | Updated September 2026, 1 hour ago
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On this video you can see parasites that live on a shrimps head. They are white flat worms are they are called Scutariella japonica. You can read about them online. These worms have a suction on one end and keep themselves attached to a shrimp head usually somewhere between the shrimp eyes. Another end of the worm is wiggling around and probably is trying to catch some food from the water.
I have cured my shrimps doing a quick salt bath. I used 1 table spoon of salt for 1 cup of water and was keeping each shrimps in salty water to 20-30 seconds. Worms are gone once I pull the shrimp back from the salt bath.
Look at my other shrimps here: shrimp-tank.com
On this video you can see parasites that live on a shrimps head. They are white flat worms are they are called Scutariella japonica. You can read about them online. These worms have a suction on one end and keep themselves attached to a shrimp head usually somewhere between the shrimp eyes. Another end of the worm is wiggling around and probably is trying to catch some food from the water.
I have cured my shrimps doing a quick salt bath. I used 1 table spoon of salt for 1 cup of water and was keeping each shrimps in salty water to 20-30 seconds. Worms are gone once I pull the shrimp back from the salt bath.
