Flat worm exit.

[6272862829]

Ok guys wish me luck. After doing about 10 water changes all last week I suck out as many planarias I could and today decided to dose the tank with FWE and I'm kinda freaking out. 10 min after I dose the tank flat worms just started floating everywere so I started the carbon and about 20 min into it man I had thousands and thousand a of them all over floating. Well I notice all my corals were close and sliming and my clam is also closed so I'm freakjng out that I might loose a lot of corals. I just a got done doing a water change cause I had to suck out all the dead one on the bottom. So far my fish shrimp and snails remain unaffected but I do see a few pods dead so we will see.


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[orthokardia]

Keep calm. Panic is the enemy


Bart

 

[6272862829]

Lol yea Bart but everything looks kinda bad as far as corals go.


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[Squishie89]

Man this makes me iffy to use it. Good luck, please keep updating on how it goes!

 

[6272862829]

Yea I was kinda scare to use it but man planaria if you leave it alone they reproduce fast and your tank turn completely brown when the lights are on cause they get all over the rocks for the lights. It's crazy so I had to do it.


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[6272862829]

My chromis are starting to show sone signs of stress now. weird.


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[saltwaterclown]

That stuff is the bomb.

 

[mixer911]

Luis,

The FWE is pretty safe. The prob is when the planarias start to dye they release toxins. These toxins are what will do the harm. It is important to siphon as many out as possible while they are first starting to die.

 

[pickupman66]

WOW, thats crazy about the flatworms.... are these AEFW or just planaria?what do they feed on?

 

[6272862829]

WOW, thats crazy about the flatworms.... are these AEFW or just planaria?what do they feed on?

No they are photosynthetic flat worms and they don't eat coral


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[pickupman66]

well at least they dont eat your pretties. I battled the AEFW and Ill never do that again.

 

[6272862829]

well at least they dont eat your pretties. I battled the AEFW and Ill never do that again.

Yea they don't eat them but they multiply faster than anything and make your tank look like crap


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[6272862829]

Luis,

The FWE is pretty safe. The prob is when the planarias start to dye they release toxins. These toxins are what will do the harm. It is important to siphon as many out as possible while they are first starting to die.

I did siphon most of them. I got a few more. I'm currently waiting on the water to get done so I can do an other water change.


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[Dowtish]

Keep making water!

 

[6272862829]

Keep making water!

Yea I will. You don't think it will affect anything by changing so much water?


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[6272862829]

My FWE treatment mess lol

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[NanaReefer]

Here's what I siphoned out within 5min after treatment...from my 26g!!! Freaking scary
!!! Lol

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[6272862829]

Oh brother that ain't nothing I wish I still have the bucket I had hundreds maybe thousands lol


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[Netta Fish]

When a flat worm dies it releases a toxin that becomes even worse with high phosphates... If your phos was even a little high it can cause big problems.

 

[6272862829]

Ok well good and bad this morning
The bad first
Browned out all my sps corals
One dead chromis
All my chalices are on bad shape the weird thing is that all other LPS remain unaffected.
The goods
Clam is opening up
All my fish but one chromis still alive
All zoas remain unaffected



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