Things on glass, only in frag tank...

[baloo6969]

Hey guys, no idea what they are, they crawl all over, and are only in the frag tank...thousands of them.

 

[hunt]

wow, looks like a ton of flat worms

 

[meowzer]

HOLY CRAP!!!! Looks like the brown ones....not devastatingly bad, BUT I would start siphoning them out asap
 
 
 
they will eat the detrius, BUT they will also eat your copepods.....

 

[baloo6969]

wonderfull

 

[hunt]

they look like Red Planaria to me, definantly siphon them off though, and if you see any dead ones get them out because they turn toxic when they die

 

[meowzer]

this is the red
 

 
this is the brown
 

 

[hunt]

is there really a differance?

 

[meowzer]

YEA....one is red one is brown....LOL
 
They are apparently very similar.....I would get them out
 
also some wrasses eat them.....you may want to look into getting one

 

[geoj]

I still have my flatworms

it has been 8 or so months they have boomed and busted in numbers. The nudi knocked them down but not out the tank

but they have not rebounded yet.

 

[baloo6969]

ugh, well i just vacumed out 10 gallons taking a bunch of em out.
 
Looks like i will be setting up the QT tank for the Wrasse
 
thhanks all!

 

[saxman]

Lois,
 
Both the pix you posted are Convolutriloba retrogemma (AKA "planaria" / red menace), which is what the OP has. The brown flatworms are Acoel sp. and look like this:
 

 

[meowzer]

HAHA....I could not find the same pic that Renee has in the lair...LOL...so when I googled acoel that's what I got

 

[saxman]

Quote:
Originally Posted by meowzer http:///forum/thread/379715/things-on-glass-only-in-frag-tank#post_3302046
HAHA....I could not find the same pic that Renee has in the lair...LOL...so when I googled acoel that's what I got

I cheat...I just go to the photobucket images...