What in the world is this thing?

DSC reef · Dec 18, 2017

I'd throw that beast into fire instead of the sump.

sfin52 · Dec 18, 2017

@Shadowbass wants it

DSC reef · Dec 18, 2017

I know, just a little sarcasm

luckily never had to deal with a polyclad.

sfin52 · Dec 18, 2017

I’m glad somebody wants a nasty beast.

Hitman · Dec 18, 2017

sfin52 said:
Do you have a sump you can drop it in

I sure do but this thing is receiving the full eviction notice!

Hitman · Dec 18, 2017

DSC reef said:
I know, just a little sarcasm luckily never had to deal with a polyclad.

I’ve lost several hundred dollars in livestock before I caught this darn thing!

Hitman · Dec 18, 2017

sfin52 said:
@Shadowbass wants it

Hopefully he gets on soon so we can make shipping arrangements!

DSC reef · Dec 18, 2017

Hitman said:
I’ve lost several hundred dollars in livestock before I caught this darn thing!

Fire it is then!! Lol

sfin52 · Dec 18, 2017

I think you should live up to your name. You’r disgracing you screen name.

Hitman · Dec 18, 2017

If there wasn’t a special request for it ther was going to be a video being posted!!! But let’s see if he still wants it as the diesel and fire pit are not far from my backdoor!!! @Shadowbass do you still want this???

C.bldwn · Dec 18, 2017

Hitman said:
;Sorry Of course the firt pest has to be something like this. Well I better start making 300 gallons of water before I start breaking it
down. I’m officially going to cry.
Thank you for your help.

I have delt with a bad infestation of these polyclad flatworms. I actually found out I had them when I caught one trying to smother and eat a turbo snail. I have an easy treatment that worked for my with no noticeable side effect besides a light dusting of diatoms that went away after a week. What I did was I make up enough water to do a 100% water change. I then treated my tank with PraziPro (make sure you remove ornamental worms) and did my 100% waterchange after 2 hours at which time I added my ornamental worms (Xmas tree rock and feather dusters) back in. I have caught the flatworms and tested PraziPro on them at normal strength and it kills them in minutes!

Dom · Dec 18, 2017

Hitman said:
;Sorry Of course the firt pest has to be something like this. Well I better start making 300 gallons of water before I start breaking it
down. I’m officially going to cry.
Thank you for your help.

Nice job!

C.bldwn · Dec 18, 2017

Dom said:
Nice job!

I forgot to mention mine were only 2-3” when I had them and I was sucking them up with a turkey blaster everytime I saw one. I pulled out about half a dozen in a months and didn’t seem like it was slowing down until I did the treatment. I forgot I did a second treatment about a month later when I found a small one in my sump about the size of a dime. Been polyclad free for about a year now. I’ve been quarantining my snails for 2 weeks with a PraziPro treatment ever since.

djwasimani · Dec 18, 2017

good work on catching.

kamike91 · Dec 18, 2017

C.bldwn said:
I have delt with a bad infestation of these polyclad flatworms. I actually found out I had them when I caught one trying to smother and eat a turbo snail. I have an easy treatment that worked for my with no noticeable side effect besides a light dusting of diatoms that went away after a week. What I did was I make up enough water to do a 100% water change. I then treated my tank with PraziPro (make sure you remove ornamental worms) and did my 100% waterchange after 2 hours at which time I added my ornamental worms (Xmas tree rock and feather dusters) back in. I have caught the flatworms and tested PraziPro on them at normal strength and it kills them in minutes!

I had no idea, that would have been nice to know.

liveround69 · Dec 18, 2017

I bought a few live rocks from a LFS 5 years back and one of them had a nemertean worm ( a.k.a. ribbon worm or proboscis worm) inside it. He looked like a small sea krait when i first saw him. It was really late at night and he was extended out of the rock. He was extremely hard to catch and ate a lot of fish, inverts, etc over the course of a week before I finally decided to give the rock back to the LFS. They tried to catch him for about another week then gave up and dropped it into a bucket of bleach.