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[TankedNTn]

Any Idea what these brown things on my glass are? They were on my rock work until I blew them off cleaning yesterday.

 

[Tahoe61]

Red Planaria/Flatworms.

Melevsreef.com - Flatworms | How to eliminate them!

 

[TankedNTn]

What's the best way to get rid of them?

 

[Tahoe61]

Please see link in my post. The most important consideration is removing as many as you can manually if you treat with Flatworm Exit, what you can see is a small percentage of the population.

 

[schooleyosis]

I just dipped my frogspawn to get rid of those. Thinking about treating the whole tank next.

 

[TankedNTn]

I've got them pretty bad in my tank right now. Couldn't figure out why my rocks looked rusty. Now I know. I'll have to siphon them out for a while with that many in there.

 

[6272862829]

Be carefull I killed a few of my fish with flatworm exit

 

[Greenstreet.1]

Don't wrasses eat those ?


The Lord is good.

 

[Tahoe61]

Yes some wrasse will and some damsels will. The fish is encouraged to eat them if they are not feed routinely and if you blow the flatworms off the surface of objects to entice the fish, once they get the hang of it they will eat them routinely. You may still see one or two after a couple months if the fish does a sufficient job of eating them. Problem is not every one wants to add a wrasse or a damsel, if the fish purchased for that purpose dies the flatworm population my take off again.

 

[Greenstreet.1]

Ok thank you for the info. I love wrasses lol.


The Lord is good.

 

[TankedNTn]

Be carefull I killed a few of my fish with flatworm exit

What would you recommend? I have carbon I can run after the dosing but don't want to kill my fish. I only have two clowns and a neon goby right now but rather like them. I'm also not sure where to but a wrasse from that would eat them. Then you have to wait for them go through quarantine..mean while the worms are still multiplying. Hmmm, quite the dilemma.

 

[6272862829]

What would you recommend? I have carbon I can run after the dosing but don't want to kill my fish. I only have two clowns and a neon goby right now but rather like them. I'm also not sure where to but a wrasse from that would eat them. Then you have to wait for them go through quarantine..mean while the worms are still multiplying. Hmmm, quite the dilemma.

I killed 95% of the work flat worm exit and after that I saw a few more but then I got a melanarus wrasse a yellow wrasse a springer damsel and a target mandarin all known to eat flat worms and never saw one ever again

 

[NanaReefer]

My experience with Flatworm Exit and NO loss of live stock.
Have makeup water ready before treatment. (On water change day) Have a fine mesh net at the ready. Leave all flow on, skimmer off.
Use double dose the recommended amount of Flatworm Exit. BE READY! The worms will begin to die within 1-2 minutes if not sooner. Start netting with steady strokes :) After 5 minutes start water change. Siphoning out dead worms as you go. Repeat treatment in 2 weeks.
I've used this method twice on my 26g. No losses of fish or corals. Only thing that seemed affected were the Bristle Worms, they got a little lethargic but survived. No snail deaths either.
Speed is key to success :) Today my tank is 100% Flatworm free!



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