Flat worms

[TUSI]

Need help with flat worms how to get rid of them pls help

 

[jerl77]

What kind??

 

[ducati335i]

Regular flatworm? A lot of people use the pig dewormer.. I have done the flatworm exit, double dose.. Then I would repeat it the following week.. I've done it on many smaller tanks (40-70) never on large tanks

 

[greenstreet.1]

Wrasse

 

[Trump]

flatworm exit

 

[MIKE NY]

AEFW. .... I just did battle with them again. Dipped what I could and been adding more wrasses also using a small power head to blast them off so the fish can eat them. Lost a few corals and frags,but I haven't seen any in over a week. The coral colors are starting to come back again with PE. I don't think that in a large tank we totally get rid of them, but keep them in check. GL

 

[TUSI]

Acro eating ones I'm besides myself I thought it was rtn but its confirmed its the brown acro ones

 

[TUSI]

Have 3 earli wrasses
1 leopard
I radiant
1 femenines
1 cleaner
I flame
So I can't add to many more wrasses without getting into different problem of fish killing each other and some of these wrasses are very expensive so I'm nervous

 

[jerl77]

Good luck I just finished 8 weeks of qt in a tank in the basement I will never do it again
You have to remove them all and qt them all for min of 8 weeks dipping them once a weeks for 8-10 weeks
Or throw them out and wait 10 weeks with no acros
Or live with them
If I ever get them again I will live with them

 

[TUSI]

It looks like that is the only way is to dip very one and rebuilt or watch them die . Omg

 

[jerl77]

Or live with them

 

[ducati335i]

Crap. Never had knock on would.. I would turkey bast corals twice a day if not more.. Just keep doing that.. I know people say that won't work.. It will help tremendously.. I do this just to keep my Sps "clean" in fact I blast my tank w a Baster all the time... See what happens and keep us updated..

 

[saltwaterinbrooklyn]

Springer damsels and malanarus wrasse keep them down too

 

[homegrowncichlid]

I was worried about flatworms a couple of years ago when they seemed to be exploding in the tank. But after reading wetwebmedia, I just left them alone and now they are gone. (They said the population cycles though booms and busts and they never recoved from the last bust) Of course I do have a tank full of damsels, a 6-line wrasse and all manner of wild things in there.

I have since seen the same thing happened to my encrusting sponges, tiny red feather duster worms, micro brittle stars, beach hopper amphipods, 2 different species of snails and lastly the mighty bristle worms (which my fish are now trained to eat)

 

[KurtL]

See I could never just "live" with them it would drive me insane. Hence why I dont keep them.

 

[Geraud]

When I had some I used the Zeovit product. It does not kill them, but apparently makes the coral produce more mucus, which means they cannot eat the coral and starve to death.

You need to use both Zeovit Flatworm stop and Zeovit K balance. Note that for complete eradication it takes a couple of weeks (6 in my case, but they say it can take up to 3 months, however a week after I started treating I stopped seeing any kind of new damage on the affected corals, and polyp expansion was already better)

I was also blasting the corals every day with a turkey baster to make them easy to catch for my fish (any wrasse will eat them once they are in the water column).

 

[MIKE NY]

I wouldn't add any other wrasse with that group especially a Melanarus, but my damsels eat them as well, but only if they free floating...AV has some Springers and Talbot's in stock...

 

[KurtL]

I wonder why they refuse to eat them off the coral? wrasses especially

 

[MikeC]

Dealing with the same thing. I dipped and lost a few colonies not sure if it was from the stress along with the dip or the Aefw. Like NYMIkE haven't seen them and everything is looking better and better every day. I only have one coris Wrass but I turkey bast every night and run all my Vortecks (5) on high for about a hour before lights out.

 

[prattreef]

You def. can live with them if you are diligent about basting the corals daily at first, and at least weekly after you get the population under control. I have found that short bursts like those from a baster work more efficiently at knocking them off the coral than a steady flow from a powerhead. It seems that fish can't see them on the corals very well. I suspect Acro crabs help as well.