I have worms

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To be more specific my tank has flat worms. I need some recommendations for a fish to eradicate them. I would prefer a wrasse but I have no sand. I would love to have a mystery wrasse if possible or perhaps a possum wrasse.

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David
 
if your tank is well established…
get a mandarin dragonet
 
My little Springeri damsel is making a dent in my ghost flatworms. I still suck out what I can since the damsel would rather eat the pods, but I've seen him eat a few of the flatworms.
 
Will need a positive id on the worms. Please post a pic or two under white light intensity
 
Hopefully this is sufficient?
 

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Coincidently my LFS has the same small round burnt orange things in his tank that he calls flat worms
 
Can you get a pic with more white light?
 
OK, I caught two of them and placed them under a magnifying glass. Hopefully this works
 

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I added a melanurus to help thin my flatworm pupulation. It sleeps in a clay pot full of sand. This was in observation. When I brought it up tonthe display I just picked up the pot while it was sleeping and set it in the corner of the new tank which is bare bottom.
 
My tank has bristle worms. I added a big arrow crab but that dummy died from hunger. I had to hunt for it. Later on it refuses the bristle worm.
 

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