flat worms on mushrooms

unleashed

unleashed

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Ok its my turn to ask for help lol.I have purple mushrooms .they seam to be infected with flat worms.every time I get something to cure a problem something eats the cure this is to be expected, but can't they wait until the problem is solved first? first I had a small outbreak of ich baught cleaner shrimp ok those lasted long enough to cure the problem (btw those dissapeered).I was waiting for that one to fail. so I purchased UV sterolizer,ok that problem solved.next was aiptasia so I purchased peppermint shrimp I dont even know what happened to then .once they hit my tank I never seen them again, they might still be there but we havent found them yet. I ended up adding a butterfly fish (not a copperband ) tried that one first but I think me sebae ate him.either way he lasted about 4 days.ok aptasia is going away slowly butterfly seams to be doing his job.ok so now I have flat worms.with no pepermint shrimp to be seen I purchased six line wrasse.6 days later now hes gone.(he obviously wasn't as fast as he was suposed to be).so now I still have the flat worms the wrasse didnt even touch them.I took the mushrooms out of the reef and added them to the fuge so they wont spread to other corals.any suggestions what else to try?
something that might accually not play hudini before the job is done?
 
misty7850

misty7850

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when I had flat worms on my mushrooms.. I took a piece of airline tubing.. attached it to a 10cc syringe.. held end of airline tubing over the flatworm.. and holding syringe in other hand and using tumb to push up on plunger.. I sucked them sucka's off those shrooms.. one at a time... I only had about 6 of them though.. I did treat my tank with flat worm exit too.. no more problems with flat worms so far..
yah I hear ya about one problem right after the other.. never ending.. LOL
 
chipmaker

chipmaker

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The hypodermic syringe with airline tube works fine and over time you can get all or most of them if you have a lot. AFAIK there is no other critters that I have heard of that eats them, but if there is, hope someone here states what it is..........but according to lfs (very good shop) the only method is picking them off, or sucking them up, or use flatworm exit..........
I use a large 60cc syringe as its handy for lots of other aquarium uses, and use a very short pice of air line (about 1/2- 3/4" long) which I push on the syringe. I then use a piece of the ridgid air line tube stuck in the end of that short piece of felx air line. Makes it easy to target things without the flexible airline moving around. I also do the same thing with a turkey baster. I insert a piece of ridgid airline through it, and extend it up through the bulb end (bulb is pulled off). SLip on a piece of flex air line, and then pull it back down the baster tube unti it snugs up in the inside taper of tube....reinstall the bulb and I now have an extended reach baster, which also works fine at removing flat worms, and dusting off the LR etc.
 
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