How to use flatworms exit

[Everything Aquatics]

I am about to use flatworms exit, is there any tips or thing I should know. Thanks Everyone

 

[laverda]

Yea, don’t. There are all kinds of posts in this forum about the disasters people have had when treating them. Many fish with eat them. Scoter dragonets, target mandarins and a variety of wrasses love them. A lot of other fish will eat them while in the water column, if you use a power head or turkey baster to blow them off the rock.

 

[tankstudy]

I am about to use flatworms exit, is there any tips or thing I should know. Thanks Everyone

Know that certain inverts can not handle the treatment. Observe them carefully and take them out if needed.

Make sure you have plenty of carbon ready to use. The treatment itself usually isn't too harmful but the dead flatworms excrete a terrible toxin and if you have enough of them, they will wipe your tank.

I've used Flatworm Exit many times over the years. If done properly, things go pretty smooth. Just make sure if things start looking very very terrible in the tank or you see a lot of flatworms, get the carbon out and water ready to do a good size water change.

 

[vetteguy53081]

Treat at 80% of recommended dosage on package.
So when you use this product it is important to do the following first:
1] Siphon out as many flatworms as possible.

2] Keep sufficient fresh activated carbon in a canister ready.
3] Turn off UV, ozone and remove activated carbon. Keep the skimmer turned on.

Any body fluids released by the dead flatworms in the water has to be reduced further by using about 1 pound of fresh high quality carbon for every 50 gallons. The carbon has to be used in a canister with a sufficient forced water flow.
Take sufficient time for treating the tank. That is, do not treat your tank in a hurry. Also take time to monitor your tank for at least 6 hours after the treatment.
It is also wise to have at least 25% water ready for a water change if required.
Dosage:
Read all the above text before commencing with the treatment!

- 1 drop for every 4 liters or 1 gallon.
The dropper contains approx. 300 drops (10 ml). The dropper cap holds approx. 90 drops.
So 1 cap full is good for 360 liters or 90 gallons.
Add it in a high flow area of the tank. If you want to treat a refugium only and if it’s volume is too small for using a powerhead then mixing should be done manually.
- It should start to work within 30 minutes.
- If within 45 minutes no visible death of flatworms occurs add 50% more.
- As soon as the flatworms start to die commence with the activated carbon to take out any toxic body fluids. Also see the above given important remarks.
- After an hour or so you can turn any UV or ozone on again.

 

[Retired Reefer]

I think he’s referring to KZ Flatworm Stop. I use it with coral booster as part of my routine. It’s more of a preventative and doesn’t kill flatworms. It has benefits for coral even if you don’t have flatworms especially when paired with CB. Many local reefers I know use it religiously as well. RecommendEd dose is fine, it gets expensive though. Why are you wanting to use it? If it’s actually for flatworms just know that all it does is make the coral unpalatable to the worms leaving them with nothing to eat. If it’s for coral health, get coral booster to dose with it.
if it’s salifert flatworm exit then ignore my post

 

[laverda]

You can easily kill any on rocks that are removable with a fresh water dip. Just dip and swirl around quickly. They dissolve in fresh water.

 

[Everything Aquatics]

You can easily kill any on rocks that are removable with a fresh water dip. Just dip and swirl around quickly. They dissolve in fresh water.

They are mostly on the glass

 

[Everything Aquatics]

Thanks everyone lots of helpful advice I have lots of carbon and am planning to do a 25 percent water change after

 

[jda]

The stuff is plenty safe. The toxins from the flatworms are not. Manually remove as many as you can and have water on hand for a water change and lots of reactors with GAC in them. They will get stringy and stick together in pools when they start to die - siphon these out and replace with fresh saltwater.

If you do not have too many, then the treatment is mostly easy. If you have a lot, then it can get dangerous.

Velvet Nudibranch is the best weapon that i have ever seen. I have seen tanks with so many that fish could never keep up... and they certainly cannot get into the cracks and crevices to get them all.

 

[TerraFerma]

No safety issues in my experience - but I hit them on the earlier side of the outbreak. If you have a done absolutely suck as many out as you can.

For me the recommended first dose does very little except get the flatworms crawling around fast. The recommended second does kill most of them, but not all of them. So I end up adding about 3x the recommended 1st does to get things going.

Another great option is to remove corals and dip them in a bucket. You can add way more Flatworm exit than in a tank and they fall off and die in seconds.

 

[laverda]

They are mostly on the glass

Syphon them off the glass before treating like others have said. I am sure you have many more in the rock.