Best flat worm eater?

[Ruggerkc]

Best flat worm eater? That pretty much says it all. Which reef safe fish works best?

 

[BangkokMatt]

Mystery wrasse love flatworms.

 

[Ruggerkc]

http://www.liveaquaria.com/product/prod_display.cfm?c=15+1378+355&pcatid=355


Damn that's like 6800 baht. I think I will save my $ for singha's.

 

[BangkokMatt]

You surely can buy a lot of Singha for that price!

 

[CadetMKultra]

Mandarins will eat them, but are hard to care for afterward. Borrow one. I get them in cycles. They come and go. Don't sweat it.

 

[Ruggerkc]

I would feel bad if I barrowed someones mandarin and killed it.

But I really like them, I wish they were more hardy in the tank.

BangkokMatt............. You are making me miss it, i think I have one sing ih the fridge I might have to break out.

 

[ScubaDiver93]

My yellow wrasse took care of them like no other. Plus beautiful fish.

 

[snorvich]

Mandarins are thought to eat them (one kind) but it is not a certainty. Mystery wrasses and sixlines eat them. I know that yellow wrasses will. I think that radiant wrasses will as well.

 

[b_mattias]

isn't 6line wrasse known for that or am I wrong?

 

[CadetMKultra]

My blue Mandarin definitely ate them, and with gusto. But he also decimated the copepod population and starved.

 

[snorvich]

Mandarins need copious copepods to survive. No doubts about that. Some mandarins will eat flat worms but it is not a guaranteed thing.

 

[craiglanda]

I hear Halichoeres wrasses will eat them

 

[cateyes]

scooter dragonette's will wreck havoc on them.....

 

[mflamb]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=12353188#post12353188 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by craiglanda
I hear Halichoeres wrasses will eat them

I've got two of them and they don't seem to like the flats.

 

[mmotown]

I had the scooter, mandrin and 6 line and they didn't touch them

 

[rduong89]

i had a bunch of flat worms in my tank but after adding in a 6line and a couple of peppermint shrimps, they were all gone.

 

[Wolverine]

There are a ton of fish that might eat them, but I have yet to find one that consistently will (I've seen all those mentioned above go into tanks and never touch them).

 

[reef_doug]

I was told a Lunare Wrasse would eat them. I purchased one on a recommendation to rid my Red Planaria flaworms and he hasn't touched one! He's addicted to all foods that are feed and is very healthy, he just doesn't touch a FW.

 

[jmaneyapanda]

flatworm exit and a siphon. You will not find a fish species that will meet your criteria of "eating flatworms". They are too individualistic (as you have seen from the posts above).

 

[Monstrigity]

my mandarin ate every last one.