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Did the flat worms really remain gone after three weeks? Appreciate your feedback when success reached at 3 week point of weekly treatments. Had read Salifert Flatworm eXit should be re-treated after 1 week. Underway with 2nd treatment at 1 week point, and no new worms appeared. Surfing online indicates eggs can wait weeks to hatch so wondering if 1 week was too soon for my tank and how many weeks to plan continued treatments. Don't want to stop too early and let remaining flatworms develop immunity to Salifert Flatworm eXit.
In preparation for first treatment, had been siphoning my red planaria flatworms like https://www.melevsreef.com/articles/how-to-eliminate-flatworms-red-planaria recommended. I'd prepared enough saltwater to do a large water change just in case. First, I added 200 drops for my 180 DT & sump. After 1 hour added another 100 drops (into 2nd bottle). I went thru 3 water buckets just siphoning dead worms to reduce the dead worm toxin. Added an extra 15 drops to make up for removed worm water. Used a 160GPH spare power head to shoot treated water into rock crevices and holes. Also like melevsreef link recommended, I added another half dose (100 drops) at the hour mark, left pumps on for 6 hours. Sometime during that six hours, sailfin tang appeared to throw up twice (didn't know could even do that) and both sailfin tang and yellow tang appetites were suppressed for 2 days+ (suspect they may have eaten floating dead worms as the initial dead worm cloud was bigger than expected and my siphon tube was small (keeping water removal down) - my sailfin and 6 line wrasse LOVE all food). Otherwise all snails, crabs, shrimp, fish, anemones, more ... were fine. Once reached 6 hours, ran 1 cup active new carbon.
Background:
Suspect these flat worms had been in my display tank but only by moving my +5" six line wrasse into sump so I could (re)introduce peppermint shrimp into display tank did red planaria flat worms have a chance to increase into noticeable numbers. Bringing wrasse back up to display tank did decrease worm numbers but at that point, my online research indicated get ahead of flatworm problem before toxicity major concerns.
Tank residents all in 180 display tank:
7 clownfish 1 six line wrasse
1 yellow tang 1 sailfin tang
1 flame angel 2 neon blue gobies
3 peppermints 2 skunk cleaner shrimp
5-6 snails 3 emerald crabs
anemones: 1 sebae, 4 RBT, 1 ultra red
gonipora (red, white, cream, pink)
frogspawn
hammers (orangy-pink, purple, yellow/green, white)
sun coral (pink)
acropora (TSA flame tip, TSA explosive ember, walt disney)
mushrooms (dead pool, ricordea types, more) & MORE corals...
The 3 newer peppermint shrimp mostly remain in hiding, but because they've found such good hiding places my wrasse hasn't eaten them like prior peppermint shrimp. My two cleaner skunk shrimp also thriving and stay out, but the smaller newer cleaner shrimp was introduced when wrasse was new to sump.
Did the flat worms really remain gone after three weeks? Appreciate your feedback when success reached at 3 week point of weekly treatments. Had read Salifert Flatworm eXit should be re-treated after 1 week. Underway with 2nd treatment at 1 week point, and no new worms appeared. Surfing online indicates eggs can wait weeks to hatch so wondering if 1 week was too soon for my tank and how many weeks to plan continued treatments. Don't want to stop too early and let remaining flatworms develop immunity to Salifert Flatworm eXit.
In preparation for first treatment, had been siphoning my red planaria flatworms like https://www.melevsreef.com/articles/how-to-eliminate-flatworms-red-planaria recommended. I'd prepared enough saltwater to do a large water change just in case. First, I added 200 drops for my 180 DT & sump. After 1 hour added another 100 drops (into 2nd bottle). I went thru 3 water buckets just siphoning dead worms to reduce the dead worm toxin. Added an extra 15 drops to make up for removed worm water. Used a 160GPH spare power head to shoot treated water into rock crevices and holes. Also like melevsreef link recommended, I added another half dose (100 drops) at the hour mark, left pumps on for 6 hours. Sometime during that six hours, sailfin tang appeared to throw up twice (didn't know could even do that) and both sailfin tang and yellow tang appetites were suppressed for 2 days+ (suspect they may have eaten floating dead worms as the initial dead worm cloud was bigger than expected and my siphon tube was small (keeping water removal down) - my sailfin and 6 line wrasse LOVE all food). Otherwise all snails, crabs, shrimp, fish, anemones, more ... were fine. Once reached 6 hours, ran 1 cup active new carbon.
Background:
Suspect these flat worms had been in my display tank but only by moving my +5" six line wrasse into sump so I could (re)introduce peppermint shrimp into display tank did red planaria flat worms have a chance to increase into noticeable numbers. Bringing wrasse back up to display tank did decrease worm numbers but at that point, my online research indicated get ahead of flatworm problem before toxicity major concerns.
Tank residents all in 180 display tank:
7 clownfish 1 six line wrasse
1 yellow tang 1 sailfin tang
1 flame angel 2 neon blue gobies
3 peppermints 2 skunk cleaner shrimp
5-6 snails 3 emerald crabs
anemones: 1 sebae, 4 RBT, 1 ultra red
gonipora (red, white, cream, pink)
frogspawn
hammers (orangy-pink, purple, yellow/green, white)
sun coral (pink)
acropora (TSA flame tip, TSA explosive ember, walt disney)
mushrooms (dead pool, ricordea types, more) & MORE corals...
The 3 newer peppermint shrimp mostly remain in hiding, but because they've found such good hiding places my wrasse hasn't eaten them like prior peppermint shrimp. My two cleaner skunk shrimp also thriving and stay out, but the smaller newer cleaner shrimp was introduced when wrasse was new to sump.
