fishycouple
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Hi all:
I have an infestation of flatworms. They are all over the glass and the few corals I have. I have a leather, frogspawn, bubble, giant mushroom cup coral and a florishing crop of yellow polyps.
My fish are yellow tang, flame angel, small huma huma, and a equally small clown trigger.
All of the fish get along and leave the corals alone. Of course the hermits and the snails are long gone.
My tank is 55 gallon, has about 40 lbs of live sand and about 55 lbs of live rock. The rock and the back of the tank are covered with purple coralline algae. I am running a sump with bio-balls and a CPR back-pac skimmer in the sump. All of the water parameters are perfect and there are no problems there. Even the flatworms are happy.
I know I need to freshwater dip the rocks and the tank to eliminate the worms, but I don't know how to go about this without harming the fish.
I am considering replacing the 55 gallon with a 75 gallon tank as it will fit the same stand and the Power compact lights will still fit.
Now the big question...if I replace the tank and replace the sand with new (to eliminate any flatworms there), and I freshwater dip the rocks, clean the sump (without cleaning the bio balls), and re-fill the tank with fresh salt-water, where do you recommend I keep my fish? I have already located a new home for the corals, and the new owner (a lfs) is probably capable of eliminating the worms on the corals. How long will I need to wait to re-introduce my fish? I am going to only have fish with the live rocks and no corals, well maybe some polyps or other easy to keep corals.
Could I safely re-use some of the water from the 55 without re-introducing the dreaded worms?
As near as I can tell the worms hitch hiked on a coral to my tank, and I have tried sucking them out with a syphon when changing water, but I cannot get them all and they come right back.
Any help would be appreciated.
I have an infestation of flatworms. They are all over the glass and the few corals I have. I have a leather, frogspawn, bubble, giant mushroom cup coral and a florishing crop of yellow polyps.
My fish are yellow tang, flame angel, small huma huma, and a equally small clown trigger.
All of the fish get along and leave the corals alone. Of course the hermits and the snails are long gone.
My tank is 55 gallon, has about 40 lbs of live sand and about 55 lbs of live rock. The rock and the back of the tank are covered with purple coralline algae. I am running a sump with bio-balls and a CPR back-pac skimmer in the sump. All of the water parameters are perfect and there are no problems there. Even the flatworms are happy.
I know I need to freshwater dip the rocks and the tank to eliminate the worms, but I don't know how to go about this without harming the fish.
I am considering replacing the 55 gallon with a 75 gallon tank as it will fit the same stand and the Power compact lights will still fit.
Now the big question...if I replace the tank and replace the sand with new (to eliminate any flatworms there), and I freshwater dip the rocks, clean the sump (without cleaning the bio balls), and re-fill the tank with fresh salt-water, where do you recommend I keep my fish? I have already located a new home for the corals, and the new owner (a lfs) is probably capable of eliminating the worms on the corals. How long will I need to wait to re-introduce my fish? I am going to only have fish with the live rocks and no corals, well maybe some polyps or other easy to keep corals.
Could I safely re-use some of the water from the 55 without re-introducing the dreaded worms?
As near as I can tell the worms hitch hiked on a coral to my tank, and I have tried sucking them out with a syphon when changing water, but I cannot get them all and they come right back.
Any help would be appreciated.