I need something that eats flatworms!

[hermitkrab]

My tanks glass is covered in white copepod eating flatworms. I need those pods for my Mandarin I want to get. I need something that is reef safe, eats flatworms, and doesn't eat pods. Also my tank is 40g with 75 lbs. of live rock, 90 lbs. of live sand, a refugium.

 

[viper_930]

Blue velvet nudibranchs eat just flatworms. But they have a tendency to get sucked up in powerhead and overflows, and after they eat all the flatworms they will starve.

 

[gfk]

i used flat worm exit, was an easy solution

 

[hermitkrab]

I though flatworm exit also kills some other things that I may want? Well what if all my intakes had sponges on them? But is there anything else? I though Coral Banded Shrimp are supposed to eat flatworms?

 

[viper_930]

My CBS doesn't eat flatworms.

 

[thomas712]

The only thing you may want to watch out for with flatworm exit is brittle worms and urchins. I've heard of a few instances with those two critters not taking the flatworm exit or the toxins very well.
I've used the blue velvet nudi's and flatworm exit.
Thomas

 

[hermitkrab]

How many flatworms does a velvet nudi eat in a day? And is there anything else that would eat them? And what are the negative effects of Flatworm Exit?

 

[hermitkrab]

Thomas which method would you recommend, the nudi or exit? I have a lot of flatworms and that's just on the glass not to mention what might be on my sand and rocks.

 

[hermitkrab]

Anyone? :notsure:

 

[haze123]

you should take a look at some of the fish here on the this site that are for sale and check out there diets just to give you a idea. I know theres tons of fish that eat them damn worms you just gotta find the right one.

 

[thomas712]

My advice would be to go straight with the flatworm exit product.
Have plenty of carbon on hand
Have a couple of polyfilters (a must in my mind)
Have at least a 30% water change aged and ready to go.
The carbon is best used in this case in a canister filter, you can use the intake to suck those little bas@#$% up.
Unfortunatly the pics are all gone from the following thread about my Blue Velvet nudi's
https://www.saltwaterfish.com/vb/show...ht=Blue+Velvet

 

[hermitkrab]

Well I guess I'll go with flatworm exit cause I think I saw one of the bad red ones in my refugium where I have a couple zoos so that is bad news. But I have two filters that have carbon, although one is due for a change. I have a AquaClear 70 and Marineland 280 Bio-wheel. The bio-wheel needs new carbon so I guess I'll get that and just keep my current carbon in the other filter. I hope this stuff works I'll post my progress with it once I get it on here. Wish me luck! Although I wouldn't mind a velvet nudi but I probably just end up killing it...

 

[thomas712]

Your going to need lots of carbon, changed often, and believe me when I say those polyfilters will help tons in removing the toxins and red/orange pigment of the dieing flatworms.
Dispite all the carbon and polyfilters that I used I still lost a purple firefish who could not deal with all the toxins from the flatworms.