Flatworm erradication help..

[oimate84]

Ok, so I am going to attempt to eliminate my flatworm breakout with a bottle of Oomed I found laying around the house...I have a quaranteen tank up and ready to put all coral and fish in while the oomed does its job in my 55gal. What I want to know is, should I leave the live rock in the tank thats being treated to remove the flatworms on the rock? or should I take the rock out and power wash it with freshwater to get rid of the pests? Just want to make sure that down along the road, the rock doesnt leach out anything....

 

[spawn_e_git]

I had a flatworm problem about six months ago. Had hundreds of the little sod's all over the place. I tried syphoning them off but it caused too much disruption. Then I added a Mandarin and they were all gone within a month. Some people say that not all Mandarins eat the flatworms but mine did! All I can give you is my account of things.

Bung a Mandarin in there and gib=ve hima monthand see what happens. Even if it does not eat them it's still a nice addition to any tank.

 

[Garry thomas]

This problem in britain not that hard to sort out? have you heard of mytazin it kills flatworms and is reef safe.try the manderin? i would not pull the rock and freshwater power wash it, you'd cause more pollution? the only draw back with mytazin is if you have a high fish load, it lowers doc!

 

[Anonymous]

spawn_e_git,

Did you actually see the dragonette eat any flatworms?

RR

 

[Anonymous]

GT,
I cant find any info on mytazin, do you have a like or something?

TIA

RR

 

[4angel]

I heard that a six line wrase would do the trick.
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[Anonymous]

Biological controls etc seem to be very hit and miss. Some have reported lower temps seem to do something to the fw's.

In regards to dragonettes, I have heard of no one who has actually seen them eat a flatworm. Some report that after adding one the population of fw's goes down, but this could easily be coincidence.

 

[Henry1]

I just treated a fw infestation last week after noticing its presence for a week.
They are mainly attached to six pieces of corals and a m'room rock, estimated to cover about 40% of the coral surface.

It was easily remove with a pH/temp adjusted RO water dip.

One advantage I have is the corals are not permanently bonded and are easily removed. A few need tearing from the encrusting sponges.
Before removing the corals, lightly disturb them to retract all the polyps. This is necessary to expose all the fw.
Each dip lasting only 15 sec at most, swishing & rotating gently.
The moment the coral was immersed, the fw fall straight out.

HTH
Cheers

 

[Philippe Dor]

Any fish of the damsel family will eat the flatworms, OTB, humbug, chromis clowns etc, just get the worms off the substrate with your hand mouvement, and once they are floating around the damsels will start eating them, and after they get the taste of it they will even pick them off the substrate, it,s very easy and safe.

 

[Philippe Dor]

Any fish of the damsel family will eat the flatworms, OTB, humbug, chromis clowns etc, just get the worms off the substrate with your hand mouvement, and once they are floating around the damsels will start eating them, and after they get the taste of it they will even pick them off the substrate, it,s very easy and safe.