Thin green things with a red dot.

[scoobs]

Ok.. I was noticing i have like a couple hundred of these square thin green things on my rocks/sand and on one end it has a red dot.. any ideas?

 

[scoobs]

Ok what ever this things are they MOVE! i hit some with my magnet cleaner and the started moving.. really slow.. slug like creatures.

 

[teen]

there flatworms. do a search for them, youll find a lot of info

 

[moby]

Most flat worms are unwanted hitch hikers.
Some eat coral polyps! Research and make the call, but be prepared to do some major removal, JMO.
Moby

 

[scoobs]

Only have Zoos star poylps a fire shrimp and a purple tang atm.. Its a 50gal tank with 60lbs of rock and about 4" of sand bed. I read these eat copods makes sence that i have been getting alot of these worms, my copod levels are very large..
I read once they eat off the copods I am safe? But I also read they use light to fead as well.
I am just wondering if my tank is safe.. I can let it run its course..

 

[moby]

Hard to say without knowing what species of flatworms you have.
The LFS down the street had them and they destroyed the SPS in their display tank!
I have heard that some do eat pods and once the pod population is depleted the flatworms will die off.
Sorry I can't offer any more info then that.

Moby

 

[teen]

i had a lot of them about 2 weeks ago, i just started sucking them out with a turkey baster and putting tham in a container of boiling hot water to kill them. i havent seen any in afew days, so i think i got most of them and the others hopefully died off, or will die off.