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Recently setup a new coral QT (about 4 months ago), and a new DT (been wet for about 30 days).
I have nothing in the DT as of yet and here is my problem...
My first batch of corals that I bought and put in QT introduced flatworms. I believe they are acoel flatworms which many say are completely harmless. I dipped the corals before I put them in the frag tank, so the bayer dip was either not effective or there were eggs somewhere. I have tried flatworm exit which was 100% not effective what so ever as well as a melanurus wrasse, the melanurus wrasse has cut them back significantly but they are still present. My question is:
Should I nuke the coral QT and start it over since it is such a young tank? Should I just proceed with what I am doing (which at this point is nothing) and knowingly introduce the flatworms into my DT and not be conerned with it (not sure I am OK with this one, but perhaps someone can talk me into this?) My options are endless - I can remove the fish from the coral QT tank and run anything I need to in this tank to get rid of them, if there is something that is sucessful.
I have nothing in the DT as of yet and here is my problem...
My first batch of corals that I bought and put in QT introduced flatworms. I believe they are acoel flatworms which many say are completely harmless. I dipped the corals before I put them in the frag tank, so the bayer dip was either not effective or there were eggs somewhere. I have tried flatworm exit which was 100% not effective what so ever as well as a melanurus wrasse, the melanurus wrasse has cut them back significantly but they are still present. My question is:
Should I nuke the coral QT and start it over since it is such a young tank? Should I just proceed with what I am doing (which at this point is nothing) and knowingly introduce the flatworms into my DT and not be conerned with it (not sure I am OK with this one, but perhaps someone can talk me into this?) My options are endless - I can remove the fish from the coral QT tank and run anything I need to in this tank to get rid of them, if there is something that is sucessful.