Flat Worm Exit Experience

[Fishy1]

Used FWE on my 29 gallon peacock mantis shrimp tank this morning. I added 24 drops to the tank and waited. Ten minutes later I could see some of the flat worms in distress and started syphoning them out. I had syphoned all I could see before I added the FWE. Fifteen minutes in to the treatment I did a 25% water change and turned on a power canister loaded with carbon. Oscar had been hiding all this time and I couldn't see if it had affected him adversely. An hour after treatment I did another 15% water change and removed the canister. Oscar has been peeking out of the rockwork and appears to be unaffected by the FWE. The only coral I removed from the tank was my Whisker Coral which I didn't want to take a chance of losing. I dipped the rock it was attaced to in FWE and then returned it to the tank. All corals look fine and so does Oscar 2 1/2 hours after treatment. They say to monitor the first 5 hours so I'm pretty confident at this point that the treatment did not harm my mantis. I estimate that I got rid of at least 90% of the flatworms. If they come back over time, I'll just re-dose my tank

HTH someone else with flatworm troubles.

Janey

 

[yankeereefer]

thanks for the update-
you'll likely want to retreat in a couple days anyway. From what I understand the FWE doen't kill the eggs so more will hatch and reestablish

 

[Jeffrey9100]

Really! I sure hope not