anyone have pics of flatworms?

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anyone have any pics of the flatworms that prey on zoanthids?

ive been seeing these things that look like an upside down U with a clear visible white circle inside of them and it has dots on the circle. i found a colony that was infested with them and these things are really attached to the colony. as a resuly, ive lost a couple of colonies and am in the process of losing another 2. just recently i've noticed them on my glass now

i need to find a way to treat this and was wondering if using flatworm exit would help?

 

[MUCHO REEF]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flatworm

http://www.scuba-equipment-usa.com/marine/AUG04/Blue_Flatworm(Cycloporus_sp).html

http://www.scuba-equipment-usa.com/marine/JUN04/Margined_Flatworm(Callioplana_marginata).html

http://www.kn.att.com/wired/fil/pages/listflatwormmi.html

Mucho

 

[unbreakable]

here's the best i could do with a camera phone:

to the right there's a chiton and to the left it's this thing. i think they may be egg sacs now but of what? maybe nudibranches? they're a PITA to remove and barely come off when you run a mag-float across it a few times

here you can see two circle looking things which is what im talking about, inside this sac looks like eggs

when i saw them on the colony it looked like it was two needle-like things connected to this sac with the small eggs attached to the zoanthids

when i did the fw dip nothing came off and taking them off with a razor was really difficult

 

[bunglito]

Are these what you are seeing?

 

[bunglito]

Or these:

 

[pepino]

how do i get rid of this ones what are the name of them what fish will eat them

 

[dc_909]

Sixline wrasse might do the job

 

[pepino]

well thanks i going to the lfs to get one of this

 

[pepino]

hey forget to ask are this bad for the reef cause i ask before and they said not to worry about it that aventually they will die

 

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<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=11478585#post11478585 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by bunglito
Are these what you are seeing?

hey!! that's really close to what i'm seeing! they're not stretched out but that's pretty much them exactly. what are they?

 

[revautosports]

Those are flatworms

 

[bunglito]

They are currently in my QT and I'm researching them myself. The best I've got is that they are acoel flatworms.

Here's a good link:

http://home2.pacific.net.ph/~sweetyu...itchworms.html

I've been told that these(Convolutriloba macropyga I think), opposed to the other picture that I posted(Convolutriloba Retrogemma), are not as bad. I've been watching them for a couple days and haven't noted an increase in size or number. But I'll let ya know.

 

[unbreakable]

these guys are bad, theyve been destroying my zoanthids.

is flatworm exit a good approach to remove them?

 

[pepino]

the ones on my tank are the ones that bunglito posted a picture of

 

[unbreakable]

thats what i have but theyre al attached to my zoanthids and theyre really hard to scrape off

 

[pepino]

i know they said not to worry much about it that aventually they ll die but i dont like seeing them in my tank i think im going to get the six line wrasse

 

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<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=11479945#post11479945 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by pepino
i know they said not to worry much about it that aventually they ll die but i dont like seeing them in my tank i think im going to get the six line wrasse

why would they die on their own? im not sure if a sixline would help out that much. im getting one too but just to have

 

[pepino]

idont know still pretty new on this still learning but will see how it goes i getting the fish if i have luck with it i let you know if you find another way to get rid of them let me know

 

[otiso777]

I had these in my tank shortly after I set it up. They're harmless. They must eat some sort of food that is in short supply on new live rock because they disappeared after a few months.

Check out this site for more info:
http://www.melevsreef.com/id/flatworm.html

 

[unbreakable]

the ones i have are attached to zoanthids, so i dont know about them being harmless. the ones theyre attached to have closed up and never opened again.. other colonies died.. but i have the ones that are similar to the picture provided by bunglito