Flatworm ID Please!

[CopperPotReefs]

Hello! R2R family! I'm pretty new to the hobby and just found this flatworm on my tank glass. I think they look more like Acoel flatworms or Ghost flatworms but I just want to be 100% sure they're not AEFW. I always dip my corals and swap out the frag plugs but I guess I missed some of these little guys. What's your best method of getting rid of them? I've been reading a lot about the flatworm exit but wanted to see if people have tried other methods.

Cheers,
Jeff

 

[cdemoss01]

Hello! R2R family! I'm pretty new to the hobby and just found this flatworm on my tank glass. I think they look more like Acoel flatworms or Ghost flatworms but I just want to be 100% sure they're not AEFW. I always dip my corals and swap out the frag plugs but I guess I missed some of these little guys. What's your best method of getting rid of them? I've been reading a lot about the flatworm exit but wanted to see if people have tried other methods.

Cheers,
Jeff

Most likely harmless. If you wanna remove you could suction them out of the tank.

 

[adamg77]

How is it going? Did you opt to treat?

 

[CopperPotReefs]

How is it going? Did you opt to treat?

Hey! I ended up dosing flatworm exit 3 or 4 times, each dose at 4-6x the recommended dose. I waited about a week in between each dose.

Nothing bad happened to my corals and everything is alive and well! I think I caught the flatworms at an early stage though so there might not have been that many worms to release their toxins.

I did notice that if I let the flatworm exit sit in the tank for 48hrs I seemed to get less worms returning the next 3 days.

At my last dose I ran out of flatworm exit so I bought some levamisole and started dosing that for about 2 weeks. So far no more flatworms to be seen, corals are healthy, fish and inverts are thriving. Definitely nervous doing all this but fingers crossed the treatment is durable. I biyght some reefprime in hipes to prevent future outbreaks.

 

[adamg77]

Nice! Glad it worked out for you!