Hello Fellow Reefers!
I'm a new reefer and now my reef has been running for 05 months.
Since the beginning i came across amyloodinium ocellatum (killed all my fish), valonia algae (under control so far with mitraculus crab) and flatworm (normal ones, GOD i hope to not comme across AEFW onde day lol).
Regarding flatworms i've tried to get rid of them using salifert flatworm exit but it is just impossible to erradicate all of them and they always come back (flatworms are real highlanders!)
Therefore i've tried a different approach. Now that the reef passed the 74 fallow days, i've introduced a melanurus wrasse and a yellow coris wrasse.
So far they are in the reef for 5 days but i havent see they eating any flatworms (tought the colony of flatworm seems to stop growing).
Since there is only these two fishes in my tank, i'm thinking about not feed at all to force them to go after the flatworms. Do you guys think that this is a good strategy to train them to catch flatworms? (i have a nice colony of pods so i think they wont starve).
Thanks in advance for your comments.
Rennan
I'm a new reefer and now my reef has been running for 05 months.
Since the beginning i came across amyloodinium ocellatum (killed all my fish), valonia algae (under control so far with mitraculus crab) and flatworm (normal ones, GOD i hope to not comme across AEFW onde day lol).
Regarding flatworms i've tried to get rid of them using salifert flatworm exit but it is just impossible to erradicate all of them and they always come back (flatworms are real highlanders!)
Therefore i've tried a different approach. Now that the reef passed the 74 fallow days, i've introduced a melanurus wrasse and a yellow coris wrasse.
So far they are in the reef for 5 days but i havent see they eating any flatworms (tought the colony of flatworm seems to stop growing).
Since there is only these two fishes in my tank, i'm thinking about not feed at all to force them to go after the flatworms. Do you guys think that this is a good strategy to train them to catch flatworms? (i have a nice colony of pods so i think they wont starve).
Thanks in advance for your comments.
Rennan