Anyone Have A Idea ??

[derrick orosz]

anyone know what these things are my glass are?

 

[Painter Steve]

They looking like flat worms to me.

 

[Shooter000]

Yep flatworms

 

[derrick orosz]

Yep flatworms

They are a bad thing?

I've never seen them before and suddenly today there's a ton on the glass

 

[TORX]

Very bad thing. Siphon as many as you can out over a few days and then hit the tank with Flatworm Exit. Be ready for some big water changes too.

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[nathan]

Damn... what do flat worms do for future reference... that's alot of the little buggers to buy the looks of it

 

[derrick orosz]

Very bad thing. Siphon as many as you can out over a few days and then hit the tank with Flatworm Exit. Be ready for some big water changes too.

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Damn. Strange how they just showed up. I haven't added anything new to the tank since the london frag show a couple months a go.

 

[derrick orosz]

Very bad thing. Siphon as many as you can out over a few days and then hit the tank with Flatworm Exit. Be ready for some big water changes too.

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Flatworm exit reef safe ?

 

[TORX]

Flatworm exit reef safe ?

Yes, but dying Flatworm are not. That is why you remove as name as you can manually first.

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[Aquatic Dreams]

A google search brought me to this ...

https://reefs.com/2013-2/pest-free-reefkeeping-iii-the-flatworms/

Apparently the white ones shouldn't be harmful but as mentioned all of them dying at once might be.


Dave.

 

[TORX]

Very good point. Rust ones are what will blanket corals and starve them of light.

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[derrick orosz]

These ones are white...almost transparent

 

[Aquatic Dreams]

Are the tiny reddish dots red flatworms? I was reading that some of the white/transparent flatworms feed on the red/brown ones. Another option is to get one of the many wrasses available. Apparently wrasses are great for flatworm control.

 

[derrick orosz]

No red dots on these ones. I have a yellow wrasse but he never pics at anything. Just seems to eat the food I put in

 

[Aquatic Dreams]

No red dots on these ones. I have a yellow wrasse but he never pics at anything. Just seems to eat the food I put in

No I meant the red dots on the glass in your pic. There's a few of them around the white flatworms and several down in the bottom right corner. I was wondering if those were the red/brown flatworms. If not maybe it's just coralline algae or something.

 

[Shooter000]

Six line wrasse or leopard wrasse would be your best bet for natural elimination, but even then that particular fish may not even eat them, mandarins or even blue damsels may eat them as well, but best bet is to get as many as you can over a couple days, use the exit and then be ready for many water changes, good luck!!!

 

[unibob]

No red dots on these ones. I have a yellow wrasse but he never pics at anything. Just seems to eat the food I put in

If you have no finicky fish, skip a few days feeding. Wrasses won't eat blah when you feed them yum lol


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[Aquatic Dreams]

I have a couple blue sapphire damselfish (Chrysiptera springeri) in my main display tank. I got them because they were on sale and very BLUE. Apparently they take care of flatworms however that's not why I got them. I do see them picking at the rocks quite often.

http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1620388

Incredible Aquariums in London had them on sale for $10 each a week or so ago but seem to be out right now. Great fish with great personalities, very colourful and hardy and stay small. Maybe see if you can find some of these in your neck of the woods.

 

[Aquatic Dreams]

Post #7 from that link I added above ...

'No problem, they are a great alternative way to treat for flatworms.'

 

[LIttle Reef Keeper]

I have white ones, it's the orange ones that are bad!

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