Flatwarms after no power?

[Steverd]

After we had to evacuate our home for wildfires for over 48 hours of no power .
I only powered a small protein skimmer with an Anker power supply,
When we got power back today I saw these all over the front glass of my 30g reef.

I have never seen them before in this tank and haven't added anything to this tank is 6+ months.
There is only two clown fish, two skunk cleaner shrimps, plus normal CUC,
How did they explode so fast, no lights and no heat?

Should I go ahead and dose Flatworm Exit?

Thank you everyone for advice.

 

[keagan]

Definitely flatworms they look like acoel flatworms to me but I'm not good with flatworm ID. Someone like @EnterName or @ISpeakForTheSeas could likely give you a real ID. Seeing as they're on the glass try siphoning as many off as you can with an airline tube it's a great opportunity to remove a bunch of them. Killing them releases toxins so you want to remove as many as you can manually.

 

[Baylott224]

dang it looks crazy.mabye they came out of the sump?if you have one.my little puffer would eat all of those. Maybe you could get something that eats them?

 

[ravila101]

I believe a 6 line wrasse might eat those or blue springeri damsel?

 

[Baylott224]

Yeah the sixline would decimate those.

 

[allof fish]

Also looks like red planera a type of flat worm. I agree a six line or yellow wrasse would demolish them

 

[EnterName]

Definitely flatworms they look like acoel flatworms to me but I'm not good with flatworm ID. Someone like @EnterName or @ISpeakForTheSeas could likely give you a real ID. Seeing as they're on the glass try siphoning as many off as you can with an airline tube it's a great opportunity to remove a bunch of them. Killing them releases toxins so you want to remove as many as you can manually.

Those are Convolutriloba sp. Probably Convolutriloba retrogemma, bad guys. Don't want them in your tank. They are often referred to as Red Planaria Flatworms.

Convolu-tri-loba (tri = three, loba = lobes) they have three lobes at the posterior end.

The harmless acoels you can find from time to time have two lobes. Convolutriloba are also acoels but the "neutral ones" might belong to the genus Heterochaerus sp. The neutral ghost flatworms are thought to be Amphiscolops sp.