i got millions... of flatworms
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tizzo
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Yes they are definately flatworms. They eat dead coral tissue, which sound like a good thing, except that their big flat bodies results in that part of the coral to not recieve light actually causing it to die. In big enough numbers they can pretty much block out all the light from your corals... Not to mention, they stress out corals and release toxic chemicals when they die or are killed. You can gamble with critters that eat them but I have personally tried a six line wrasse-he didn't touch them, a spotted mandarin-if he ate them, I didn't see it. I used a turkey baster to remove mine, luckily I didn't have many and I caught it early.
I use Flatworm exit as a dip not and that stuff is incredible!!
Oh, lemme show you... These are my progress shots of a coral given to me by a friend who thought he might not have had enough light for it. It was dying off branch by branch in his tank, so I took it home...
I use Flatworm exit as a dip not and that stuff is incredible!!
Oh, lemme show you... These are my progress shots of a coral given to me by a friend who thought he might not have had enough light for it. It was dying off branch by branch in his tank, so I took it home...
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tizzo
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Oh here's the frogspawn at last shot...
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tizzo
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If they are in your main tank, it's prolly best to treat the main tank. Unless they are pretty much isolated to one rock then you could try dipping just that one and see what happens...
stuckinfla
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I agree with Bigarn, but be careful & follow directions.
duke13
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Be ready to syphon your entire tank if you're going to treat the whole tank. Flatworm juice can be toxic in large amounts. I'd say the best thing to do is dip treat as much as you can, then treat the tank so there's less bodies floating around. Also, you may want to turn off your powerheads. Good luck.
gfk
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just treated the whole tank, got out a majority of them with a syphon.... the ro machine by my house was out of service so i only got 1 gallon of ro/di water from safeway, now my water is like an inch below where it should be.... whoops
hopefully that took care of them... friggen 22.99 for this dainty little bottle of flatworm exit, lfs is a rip off
hopefully that took care of them... friggen 22.99 for this dainty little bottle of flatworm exit, lfs is a rip off
stuckinfla
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Tizzo, great pics, did you put them into the new ID post? You should if you didnt.
caillou
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I just used exit on my 6 gallon QT tank. That god they were limited to that tank and not my display. I picked up a nasty infestation on some rocks I picked up last weekend from a guy breaking his tank down (now I think I know why) Just did the dose of exit, let them die, syphoned as many as I could off and did a 50% water change. My mushrooms are a bit shriveld(sp?) up, hopefully they'l come back. It was the mushrooms on the rocks I picked up that wanted and was the reason for taking the rock in the first place.
shawnts106
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Luckly I have never had or seen this problem in my tank... I suppose it just depends on where your buying from and where that LFS is buying from, I know that our store has excelent healthy corals that come in, of course there are a few exceptions as with all stores, and the ONLY pests that I have ever seen come in with corals is a few of those soft coral eatting seaslugs, thats it!
caillou
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Got mine from a fellow reefer breaking his tank down. Couldn't see the problem because I was one of 4 guys in his house getting stuff so the lights were up and the tank was cloudy from the comotion. I'm not complaining, it's the reason I run a 6 gallon qt tank. Plus when you get a $100 + SPS Colony for $25 and a bunch of other stuff I'll deal with the issues. Just another reason to run a quarantine tank if you ask me. I'm glad I have it!
Here's a pic of my $25 colony. The pic doesn't do it justice, nice purple tips!
Here's a pic of my $25 colony. The pic doesn't do it justice, nice purple tips!