coral eating bug

[WestChesterReef]

I noticed my yumas were unhappy, then my frogspawn, they seem to eat on the yumas and mushrooms, can you tell me what they are and how to eradicate?

 

[WestChesterReef]

any help anyone?

 

[WestChesterReef]

Well, so far I have had a marine biologist tell me its trematoda, on searching that is a fluke, but its not on my fish, its eating coral, a lugol's dip gets most of them off a coral but they continue to live, even after 6 hours in the dip, Central aquatic told me its flat worm (planarian) which seems more likely, but what to do to rid these?

 

[The Big Tuna]

I have found that a very short dip(1 min) in pure RO or DI water while swishing the coral back & forth in the bucket or bowl will kill almost any flatworm out there. I have also found that Scooter blennies are excellent for eradicating flatworms from tanks.

HTH-
Joshua

 

[fishhead79]

Six line wrasses do well with eating flat-worms also. If you have them in plague proportions you should siphon out as many as possible and flat worm exit is another option. Be carefull using the flat worm exit, I cannot stress enough "read the directions".

Good luck

 

[WestChesterReef]

Years ago I had the red flat worms, flatworm exit was used and successful, These are a different breed, you cant siphon them out, they don't let go, I just ordered the new ZeoVit flatworm stop going to give it a try.