Flatworm questions

[keddre]

if there is a better place for this, please move

I'm back with another "better left in the ocean" invert attempt, yet unlike my filter feeders this one eats flatworms.

So my questions:

1) are there flatworms that don't eat inverts or corals

2) if so, what do they eat?

3) how would you go about setting up a culture tanks just for these worms?

Thanks in advance

 

[saltyfilmfolks]

1 yes

2
Lots don't eat coral. Most eat detritus and the organisms feeding on the detritus. Some feed on the bacterial slime produced by the corals.
Look up Ronald shimeck worms.
There a lot of them.

3
Basic flow sand and rocks too much food and a sample of the sand in my fuge. Lol.

 

[keddre]

1 yes

2
Lots don't eat coral. Most eat detritus and the organisms feeding on the detritus. Some feed on the bacterial slime produced by the corals.
Look up Ronald shimeck worms.
There a lot of them.

3
Basic flow sand and rocks too much food and a sample of the sand in my fuge. Lol.

Cool thanks, maybe it's just that flatworms are so boring you only hear of them when they are problematic. Guess I'll set up my extra 10 gallon with some fuge rock/sand and see what happens

 

[saltyfilmfolks]

Cool thanks, maybe it's just that flatworms are so boring you only hear of them when they are problematic. Guess I'll set up my extra 10 gallon with some fuge rock/sand and see what happens

Yea. Fungus is boring too. But the planet would die without them.
Google search polyclad flatworm reef2reef . A guy just got a large one here.
Neat stuff.

 

[keddre]

Yea. Fungus is boring too. But the planet would die without them.
Google search polyclad flatworm reef2reef . A guy just got a large one here.
Neat stuff.

The more I read on these, the more I'm thinking I should get some ornamental worms instead of an eater of them. That polyclad looks cool, but some of these look really nice

 

[saltyfilmfolks]

Slugs and nutibranchs are generally easier. Some live quite a long time