First Time Using Flatworm Exit... Double check my plan....

[chazman113]

So a big ol flatworm infestation spawned in my setup seemingly over a week. They are starting to annoy my coral and I really want to eradicate them. I have some flatworm exit coming tommorrow. So my tanks are seperated into 3, one 100 gallon prop tank, one ~75 gallon fuge and on 60 gallon display tank. My plan is the following:

1. Suck out as many as I can first, there are A LOT, I know when the die its bad, so I added some pics of some trouble spots, I don't know if its just bad or "really bad".
2. Isolate each tank during the process. Maybe up to 24 hours? I'm going to start with the fuge since it has the least to lose. Pods, Chaeto and Coralline are the only things that need to survive.
3. Run ROX carbon in a phosban reactor in each tank as I'm doing it on a closed loop. I'm thinking about a 1/4 of the way up? How quickly should I replace it?
4. Do another round of trying to suck up any flatworms
5. Reapply again in week assuming everything does good, just with the system running in the normal mode.

 

[chazman113]

Just an update after I'm doing more research.. I didn't mention a water change but I'm going to have that ready. I'm going to rig up a pump driven siphon that I've wanted to do for a while, so I'm thinking I calm down a bit and spend at least a few days using that to siphon out live flatworms first. Or is that futile? I don't mind killing a few hours doing it.

 

[Subsea]

Just an update after I'm doing more research.. I didn't mention a water change but I'm going to have that ready. I'm going to rig up a pump driven siphon that I've wanted to do for a while, so I'm thinking I calm down a bit and spend at least a few days using that to siphon out live flatworms first. Or is that futile? I don't mind killing a few hours doing it.

Usually there are many more flat worms hidden than in view. What I saw was not that bad. It doesn’t hurt to syphon them out before you treat the tank. There will be plenty more when you treat.

“So my tanks are seperated into 3, one 100 gallon prop tank, one ~75 gallon fuge and on 60 gallon display tank”

What is a prop tank?

 

[chazman113]

Usually there are many more flat worms hidden than in view. What I saw was not that bad. It doesn’t hurt to syphon them out before you treat the tank. There will be plenty more when you treat.

“So my tanks are seperated into 3, one 100 gallon prop tank, one ~75 gallon fuge and on 60 gallon display tank”

What is a prop tank?

Oh a propagation tank. Like with a bunch of frags. Honestly that one will be fine. it's mostly Zoas and everything is very easy to get to. The display tank is the only one Im really worried about. I'm gonna do the fuge side first and see what happens, the 2 other tanks will be fine on thier own without reciruclating to the sump/fuge for a few days.

 

[chazman113]

Just did a flatworm siphon with RO line and then medication and the cleanup. It was a massacre in my sump. Nothing seemed to be harmed that I can see. Did a 50% water change after I let the carbon run for about a half hour. Just did the prop tank, very few worms but needed to be sure anyway. Last is the display tank tommorow when I make up another batch of water change (its out of the loop for now)! That stuff is absolutely lethal to these things, they started writhing in 10 minutes. I managed to find the one brittle star I have and he's spending the night in a bucket.