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These little guys showed up on the front glass today, never seen these flatworms before.
My tank had the red flatworms before on my euyphillia, but I dipped and they disappeared. It’s just these look a bit different than the ones I had before or maybe that’s how they look when they are little? I have two wrasses that don’t seem to eat any flatworms and I dose flatworm stop by KZ daily. Should I be concerned?

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These little guys showed up on the front glass today, never seen these flatworms before.
My tank had the red flatworms before on my euyphillia, but I dipped and they disappeared. It’s just these look a bit different than the ones I had before or maybe that’s how they look when they are little? I have two wrasses that don’t seem to eat any flatworms and I dose flatworm stop by KZ daily. Should I be concerned?

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These are acoel flatworms and not as harmful as red planaria. You can siphon them with a 3/8” tube and discard. If many, a yellow, lunare or melanurus wrasse will eat them as well as a springieri damsel
Next 2 weeks, keep your eyes open for eggs which are very tiny
 

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Yeah cause red planaria has 3 tail endings right compared to these which only have 2
 

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will 6 line wrasse eat these bc mine doesnt seem interested. Using flatworm exit on my frag tank, how often can I use it, first dose didnt do the trick.
 
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I had a bejeweled damsel pick on them, the wrasses didn’t bother for some reason.
But definitely flatworm exit will nuke them (or at least was my case).
 
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Did regular dose work for you? these flatworms seem to be nuke proof.
I used the whole Salifert Exit (one that says it treats up to 300g) in my 180g tank.
But I additionally dose flatworm stop by KZ,
even though I don’t see any flatworms anymore. The corals seem to love that product a lot.
I know Salifert Exit doesn’t affect the eggs; maybe you nuked the flatworms and eggs just hatched?
Try to only use skimmer when using Exit, I know activated carbon will soak that product in.
When I used Exit I could see the flatworms detaching and floating away with 15 min.
Just be mindful of the flatworms die-off toxin.
 

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I used the whole Salifert Exit (one that says it treats up to 300g) in my 180g tank.
But I additionally dose flatworm stop by KZ,
even though I don’t see any flatworms anymore. The corals seem to love that product a lot.
I know Salifert Exit doesn’t affect the eggs; maybe you nuked the flatworms and eggs just hatched?
Try to only use skimmer when using Exit, I know activated carbon will soak that product in.
When I used Exit I could see the flatworms detaching and floating away with 15 min.
Just be mindful of the flatworms die-off toxin.
Does the toxin affect coral?
 
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Idk about coral, but from what I heard invertebrates are the most sensitive to that toxin.
 

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Those kinda look like what are commonly called ghost flat worms. They're pretty much harmless unless they are found in titantic hordes lol.

If your wrasses arent munchin em i had a pair of pep shrimp that decieded they loved flat worms more then aptasia... all things considered not a bad deal haha
 

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