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mr_x
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what color are they? if they are white, they will disappear on their own. if they are brown flatworms, then you have an over abundance of pods. they are ambush predators and pods are their food. if you deplete the number of pods in the tank, they will disappear as fast as they came. a good way to do that is with something else that eats pods- wrasses, dragonets...
people are going to suggest flatworm exit, but i highly disagree with them.
here is a good article-
http://macropyga.googlepages.com/
people are going to suggest flatworm exit, but i highly disagree with them.
here is a good article-
http://macropyga.googlepages.com/
kevin34
Active Member
ok thanks for the help. I would LOVE to have a mandarin but I dont want it to starve. I Apparently I have a lot of pods but I dont know if its enough for a mandarin. Could a mandarin be my first fish? Even though I dont have fish yet, the tank has been up for almost 5 months.(lots of issues with the QT)
meeks101
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If they are those flat worms with legs sticking out from them on both sides I have those in my tank too! Some fish do eat those things but I'm not sure which do. You could go to a fish store. But they don't do any harm so you might as well just leave them there. When I cleaned out my algea scrubber alot of them I rinsed out. Theres not that many any more, all the ones I have hang out on or in my rocks. But used to hang out on my glass when there was a lot of them. If you have any more questions let me know!
kevin34
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Originally Posted by Mr_X
http:///forum/post/2711226
how large is your tank?
its a 125 with 180 lbs of live rock. Would a sixline be a better choice for my first fish?
http:///forum/post/2711226
how large is your tank?
its a 125 with 180 lbs of live rock. Would a sixline be a better choice for my first fish?
big
Active Member
Originally Posted by Kevin34
http:///forum/post/2710957
ok thanks for the help. I would LOVE to have a mandarin but I dont want it to starve. I Apparently I have a lot of pods but I dont know if its enough for a mandarin. Could a mandarin be my first fish? Even though I dont have fish yet, the tank has been up for almost 5 months.(lots of issues with the QT)
Mandarin would be odd as a first fish Kevin. But if you have that large tank and lots of pods and LF it just may work. Far too many folks add one too early or in too small of a system. Again many "newer set ups seem to have an abundance of pods a few months after set up only to see them strangely vanish latter. If you try one be sure there is a good refugium system to help keep the population stable even with a large overall system capacity.
Avoid adding any other fish that would directly compete with him. I wish I could have one but have never tried even with a huge fuge and a nearly 2 to 1 LR ratio in a mature tank. I have too many critter that compete for the available pod population which is an issue sometimes overlooked.
Back to the flatworm thing, the consensuses used to be white ok, brown not. Mr. X's article is good info.
But Kevin if you have Brown ones sometime to think about is they may quickly deplete pod populations in your system Be sure the pod population is stable........... Good Luck.........
http:///forum/post/2710957
ok thanks for the help. I would LOVE to have a mandarin but I dont want it to starve. I Apparently I have a lot of pods but I dont know if its enough for a mandarin. Could a mandarin be my first fish? Even though I dont have fish yet, the tank has been up for almost 5 months.(lots of issues with the QT)
Mandarin would be odd as a first fish Kevin. But if you have that large tank and lots of pods and LF it just may work. Far too many folks add one too early or in too small of a system. Again many "newer set ups seem to have an abundance of pods a few months after set up only to see them strangely vanish latter. If you try one be sure there is a good refugium system to help keep the population stable even with a large overall system capacity.
Avoid adding any other fish that would directly compete with him. I wish I could have one but have never tried even with a huge fuge and a nearly 2 to 1 LR ratio in a mature tank. I have too many critter that compete for the available pod population which is an issue sometimes overlooked.
Back to the flatworm thing, the consensuses used to be white ok, brown not. Mr. X's article is good info.
But Kevin if you have Brown ones sometime to think about is they may quickly deplete pod populations in your system Be sure the pod population is stable........... Good Luck.........
kevin34
Active Member
Originally Posted by big
http:///forum/post/2711373
Mandarin would be odd as a first fish Kevin. But if you have that large tank and lots of pods and LF it just may work. Far too many folks add one too early or in too small of a system. Again many "newer set ups seem to have an abundance of pods a few months after set up only to see them strangely vanish latter. If you try one be sure there is a good refugium system to help keep the population stable even with a large overall system capacity.
Avoid adding any other fish that would directly compete with him. I wish I could have one but have never tried even with a huge fuge and a nearly 2 to 1 LR ratio in a mature tank. I have too many critter that compete for the available pod population which is an issue sometimes overlooked.
Back to the flatworm thing, the consensuses used to be white ok, brown not. Mr. X's article is good info.
But Kevin if you have Brown ones sometime to think about is they may quickly deplete pod populations in your system Be sure the pod population is stable........... Good Luck.........
thanks for the info. So do you think a sixline would be a better choice?
http:///forum/post/2711373
Mandarin would be odd as a first fish Kevin. But if you have that large tank and lots of pods and LF it just may work. Far too many folks add one too early or in too small of a system. Again many "newer set ups seem to have an abundance of pods a few months after set up only to see them strangely vanish latter. If you try one be sure there is a good refugium system to help keep the population stable even with a large overall system capacity.
Avoid adding any other fish that would directly compete with him. I wish I could have one but have never tried even with a huge fuge and a nearly 2 to 1 LR ratio in a mature tank. I have too many critter that compete for the available pod population which is an issue sometimes overlooked.
Back to the flatworm thing, the consensuses used to be white ok, brown not. Mr. X's article is good info.
But Kevin if you have Brown ones sometime to think about is they may quickly deplete pod populations in your system Be sure the pod population is stable........... Good Luck.........
thanks for the info. So do you think a sixline would be a better choice?
fishygurl
Active Member
ya i had this same problem in my 125! i got this coral and didnt dip it in anything (a green star polyp with TONS of all sorts of critters in it) anyways the 3 frags i got from that store in that tank all had some flat worms that i saw the next couple days. i didnt think they were living until i saw a snail that was on the rock almost touch one and then it scooted a little bit down farther. Thats when i got on cuz i wanted to know how fast they spread.
Well anyways i think i have only like 5 or so left in there that i still need to take out, but they are super easy to take out. All you need is a syringe or something like that and you can suck them right on up.
The most were on my green star polyps (the biggest rock) which i ended up finding a crab in so i took the whole rock out and fragged most of the green star polyps onto a different rock and then smashed the other cuz the crab wouldnt come out. (now i cant find the crab in my fuge..) But after doing that i havnt seen any on the green star polyps and ive seen 2 that i know of still on my red mushroom rock so i will take that out today and shake it in some water and then put it back in.
I suggest that you get an airline tubing since u said you have a lot and suck on the other end till water is coming out and put that end in a bucket or something and look around and suck up as many as you see and do this everyday or whenever you have the chance till you dont see anymore. They really arnt that hard to get out, unless they are going all in your rock work and you have a bunch, but this way you can get a bunch out all the time depleting their population.
Anyways good luck!
Btw if your planning on adding that sixline without quarantining good luck i hope it doesnt have ich!
Ive added 5 blue green chromis, a jawfish, and a lawnmower blenny without any sign of ich so far. But i still plan on settin up a hospital tank when ever i find a good deal on them.
But think of it if you had a sixline you would actually have a fish! and then if it ended up getting ich your quarantine would be about cycled and you could just put him in there for awhile and not have to worry about your tank cuz theres no other fish in it!
Well anyways i think i have only like 5 or so left in there that i still need to take out, but they are super easy to take out. All you need is a syringe or something like that and you can suck them right on up.
The most were on my green star polyps (the biggest rock) which i ended up finding a crab in so i took the whole rock out and fragged most of the green star polyps onto a different rock and then smashed the other cuz the crab wouldnt come out. (now i cant find the crab in my fuge..) But after doing that i havnt seen any on the green star polyps and ive seen 2 that i know of still on my red mushroom rock so i will take that out today and shake it in some water and then put it back in.
I suggest that you get an airline tubing since u said you have a lot and suck on the other end till water is coming out and put that end in a bucket or something and look around and suck up as many as you see and do this everyday or whenever you have the chance till you dont see anymore. They really arnt that hard to get out, unless they are going all in your rock work and you have a bunch, but this way you can get a bunch out all the time depleting their population.
Anyways good luck!
Btw if your planning on adding that sixline without quarantining good luck i hope it doesnt have ich!
Ive added 5 blue green chromis, a jawfish, and a lawnmower blenny without any sign of ich so far. But i still plan on settin up a hospital tank when ever i find a good deal on them.
But think of it if you had a sixline you would actually have a fish! and then if it ended up getting ich your quarantine would be about cycled and you could just put him in there for awhile and not have to worry about your tank cuz theres no other fish in it!