Pest ID? Flatworms?

[pookie]

I bought 11 frags from wwc and this is my first time setting up coral qt. Back story i had a red planaria outbreak in my chaeto in my sump and took it all out and freshwater dipped the entire sump. This is the only time I've interacted with them until now. I put 2 smallish rocks in the qt just to cycle it instantly just in case. I put them in and followed wwc instructions to not dip them immediately I waited 24 hours then dipped on melafix and coralrx back to back and have observed since. These look like flatworms and now I'm concerned they came from my og tank and all my tanks are infected with them. I took these with a USB microscope you can plug into your phone and zoom 1000× these were at like 400x zoom. ID please and maybe how to handle them? Lots of hair algae too I put 2 snails in with them. I've looked into bayer method and can't source it. I have a feeling this is a main tank problem too!

 

[tzabor10]

Definitely look like flatworms. You could crop the photos to eliminate excess.

 

[pookie]

 

[pookie]

These were with a microscope

 

[pookie]

Since taking these. I took my frags out dipped them in coral rx, i then emptied the tank and fill it with freshwater to kill them off then drained it and cleaned in the bathtub and scrubbed all the algae that grew and brushed all the surfaces on tank and equipment. Filled back up with tank water from main. Then took all coral frags off their og frag plugs and put them on mine that I had sitting on my sump. Freshwater dipped my live rock for a minute or 2. Then dipped the coral frags again in melafix and now are back in tank hopefully with very minimal flatworms will do this again next Sunday

 

[Uncle99]

Suck out them daily.
Add predators.
Dose Flatworm Stop Daily, for 90 days.

 

[pookie]

Suck out them daily.
Add predators.
Dose Flatworm Stop Daily, for 90 days.

The problem is i can't actually see them with my eyes alone. I've looked on rock macroalgae on the glass during day and night and have not seen any in my display tank so I'm at the conclusion that somehow world wide corals gave me these. Luckily this is only in a 10 gallon quarantine tank and can do extreme measures to get rid of them. If I can't get rid of them within a month after week 2 I'll go ahead and grab the medication but 40 bucks for a bottle is a little crazy

 

[Llyod276]

The problem is i can't actually see them with my eyes alone. I've looked on rock macroalgae on the glass during day and night and have not seen any in my display tank so I'm at the conclusion that somehow world wide corals gave me these. Luckily this is only in a 10 gallon quarantine tank and can do extreme measures to get rid of them. If I can't get rid of them within a month after week 2 I'll go ahead and grab the medication but 40 bucks for a bottle is a little crazy

Heh, welcome to the hobby. $40 is the new $5...

 

[Uncle99]

The problem is i can't actually see them with my eyes alone. I've looked on rock macroalgae on the glass during day and night and have not seen any in my display tank so I'm at the conclusion that somehow world wide corals gave me these. Luckily this is only in a 10 gallon quarantine tank and can do extreme measures to get rid of them. If I can't get rid of them within a month after week 2 I'll go ahead and grab the medication but 40 bucks for a bottle is a little crazy

Perfect, good in QT.
Flatworm stop is more of a longer term solution done in the DT.

Generally you should be able to see on Corals and glass

 

[pookie]

The problem is i can't actually see them with my eyes alone. I've looked on rock macroalgae on the glass during day and night and have not seen any in my display tank so I'm at the conclusion that somehow world wide corals gave me these. Luckily this is only in a 10 gallon quarantine tank and can do extreme measures to get rid of them. If I can't get rid of them within a month after week 2 I'll go ahead and grab the medication but 40 bucks for a bottle is a little crazy

Perfect, good in QT.
Flatworm stop is more of a longer term solution done in the DT.

Generally you should be able to see on Corals and glass

Yeah i have no idea why they are so small there were tons of pods in the tank too and these flatworms were like 4x smaller than them. Literally smaller than a needle point. Microscope was the only way i could see them and said uh oh when i saw them because of how many there actually was!

 

[Double monti 61]

Why do believe they will harm your system if you do not even know what they are?

 

[pookie]

Why do believe they will harm your system if you do not even know what they are?

The point is i dont want anything else in there creature wise. My tank is already doing very well with the balanced creatures in it. Why shake it up again? Last thing i want to see is 1000 black dots all over my tank. Also potential toxins when they die, they certainly look and have the shape of the classic flatworm, theres also acropora in this qt i want no chances for aefw. Jmho