Any fish eat flat worms???

[freddy4130]

That will fit in a 40 breeder? I have two black false percs and a catalina goby. Anything?

 

[ficklefins]

I've heard rumors of a target mandarin and a sixline wrasse eating them. If you want something that will hands down eat them you could get a blue velvet nudibranch, but you will need to find it a new home when your flatworms are gone.

http://www.bluezooaquatics.com/productDetail.asp?cid=83&pid=1211&did=2

 

[mfinn]

I ended up with flatworms in my 40 gallon zoanthid tank and when I added a six-line wrasse, they disappeared in a month.

 

[Reef Pets]

Its been hit or miss with me in the past... I have had 6 line wrasse eat them and then others would starve before eatting a flat worm. Also, to my knowledge if a 6 line eats a bunch of them in a short time then the fish will die from there toxins. I do believe this because when I had flat worms in a tank a while back the three 6 lines that I went through that would eat them all died within a couple days of eatting a bunch of flat worms.

 

[afboundguy]

I have a sixline and I don't see any flatworms. I now dip every coral so they shouldn't end up in the tank but when I first started getting corals I didn't dip but I give all the credit to the sixline :D

 

[GMaquarium]

I have good success with scooter blennies. Hardy, cheap and keep the flatworms down

 

[freddy4130]

Good advice. I'll do a little more research and see what turns up. I have always wnted a mandarin and I do have a fuge, I may be able to swing it no.

 

[joesfiddy]

yellow coris wrasse eats them

 

[planecrazy]

Some wrasses like a 6 line, yellow coris, etc. Dragonettes (Mandarin, scooter blenny) and Lemon Damsels will all eat flatworms. Some are better than others and it depends on the individual. I have had good luck with my xxl scooter blenny.

 

[AlexStinson]

I had very good luck with my scooter blenny

 

[droblack]

Red scooter blenny is the one you want. 4-line wrasse might do the trick better than the 6 from what I hear.

 

[Blackhawk Fan]

My sixline wrasse eats them. I am battling AEFW at the moment and the sixline is always there to gobble them up when I blow off my corals.

 

[schminksbro]

I have no experience with them but I have often heard yellow coris wrasse is a good bet.

 

[FateX8]

yellow coris is hit and miss
i had one that did very well in my frag tank but when i set up a display and got them i got another yellow coris because of my previous experience and he did nothing

 

[Hypertek99]

Yep my mandarin ate them when i had a flatworm outbreak

 

[scapes]

melanarus wrasses