Prett sure I have red flatworms

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So I took my galaxea coral out to get some bubble algae off of it. I flipped it over to give it a look over and saw some usual critters, but then I poked something squishy and realized the brown splotches were flatworms. I found 4 on the galaxea, 1/2" long was the longest one. I have the tools I was using now sitting in rubbing alcohol to start the process of cleaning them.
What should I do? I tried using flatworm exit a few months ago due to the little white stupid flatworms I have and that wasn't very effective and the tank suffered from this (but I had no major deaths). Pretty upset about this turn of events. The corals I have are; ricordeas, acans, fungias/plates, galaxea, frogspawn, hammer, candycanes/trumpets, mushroom, colt, flowerpot, duncans. From my quick bits of research they look like the AEFW ones. I do not plan on having any SPS in this tank, I run a very dirty tank. All corals currently can be removed to be dipped. I made the stupid error of not dipping all of my corals. Only my last few additions were dipped.
Please help.



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No wrasses, nor are any planned. I had considered getting a six line, but I am concerned about it eating all of the pods (I have a mandarin and I have 2 pipefish coming in 1.5 weeks). This may sound silly, but how can the six line find them if I had never seen these till now?
My best second guess would be that they are polyclad, because they have that overall oval shape.
 
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See now that may make sense. I tried 4 times to keep clams, and all of them died. I never found any FWs on them, but, doesn't mean they weren't there or the culprit. Can they live without clams? I have not had any clams for months.
 
Different types eat different things. They can eat snails and corals. I have had a few that love to eat snails.
 
I am going to try and use clams/maybe something else and a trap to see if I have anymore. My guess is I need to monitor the trap as I doubt flatworms can really trip a trap to close.
 

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