Flatworm Eating Nudi....Chelidonura varians

clowninaround74

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ok i already tried a FWE dosage and i even dosed the tank 3.5x what the recommended dosage was. I have sense gotten the FW back again just as strong as ever. I just dont want to go through the hastle of doing another treatment again. Plus i have just recently purchaced some expensive coals and dont want to risk it at all. So....im looking for a Chelidonura varians nudi. I know they eat flatworms so i was trying to find one locally before i start my search online.

Has anybody seen them or no??? If so where??? I still think im going to try a target mandarin if i cant find one, but with having a 24g with only 35lbs of rock i dont want to risk starving the fish in the long run.

Thanks


scott are these on your lists ever?? could you look into it for me?
 
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They show up once in a while, but have many problems of there own. For example they love to bo turned into minced meat by going for a ride in your power heads.
 
yea i thought of that too but i only have one powerhead in there so idk....no flatworms ever go on the glass they are always on the rocks so....idk its just a thought. Can they be harmful if they are miced up like that or no?
 
heres a pic of what they look like...
Chelidonura_varians_05.jpg
 
yea i thought so too...but my tank will look better without damn flatworms!!!!

I have been looking around online and i see that they can be delicate. DFS has them and so do a few other places so i see that they are available. I would much rather give my money to scott though!!!! he is so good at taking it! lol lol i like staying local if possible, so hopefully they will have some on his list
 
Yeah those are the ones I saw in Denver a couple weeks ago.
I sure hope I never get those dang flatworms! I have been really trying to dip all my new sps in TMPCC but I should also dip all new corals so i don't have to try to find these nudi's.
Good luck and let us know what you end up doing to rid your tank of them.
 
yea they suck a$$ lol. I hope i can find a way to get rid of them although the up side to them is they keep the rocks really clean! but they end up reaching huge populations....
 
I remember Neptunes Realm had probably a few million of them in that back large reef tank (before todd owned it) maybe 8-10 years ago. It really distracts you looking at the tank but the good thing is they don't eat the corals I guess right? Are they just algae grazers?
 
they can actually get so bad that they cover corals, preventing them from photosynthesising.....wow spelling is off...which can be bad. Well i have heard great things about these but also some bad things....i think i will just stick with the mandarin approach. I can always trade him back or something when he cleans up the flatworms...I know eric said he had great success with his target doing that for him. I wish i could have "borrowed" the lil guy but im sure most all targets pick on the FWs.
 
I have ben having this same problem. I bought some sort of wrasse that is supposed to eat them, but apparently doesnt. The bottom of my tank looks disgusting with them. I syphon them out with every water change but they are back. I would be really interested in one of these and a target madarin. I think I need the double whammy.
 
I read the leopard wrasse, yellow coris wrasse (not actually a coris but that's what they are commonly called) spotted mandarin, yellow head sleeper goby and another wrasse I don't see commonly will all eat them. The nudi mentioned also eats them but seems to only eat them and if you feel bad about starving something you are not supposed to buy the nudi if you want to be a responsible reef keeper:rolleyes:

I read if you kill them chemically and don't siphon all of em out right away you can have toxicity issues. The author says its a cycle that will pass. I kind of disagree, I think it could take years to pass and wouldn't want to wait it out.

Freshbrew..........You still have them? are there ton's of them now? are they brownish or the more red ones?
what methods have you tried?

Chris
 
yea i think im going to get a yellow "coris" wrasse to fight them off. I have talked to a few different ppl that have recommended them. Plus i was considering adding one of them anyways because i like the way they look. And then if it doesnt touch them....which i believe it will....then i can go the mandarin or nudi road
 
Randall, I think a YCW would be too big for your tank. You also need a DSB for them to sleep in as they burrow in the sand to sleep.
 
yeah ive still got the darn things, I bought that wrasse, but it doesn't seem to do anything with them. I don't know if it is because there are so many other types of food around or what, but they are bad. I syphon them out about once a week, due to my very hectic schedule recently and thats about what I have done. I don't really want to do the chemical thing, just my own personal feeling, but I have so many that I am sad to say the death of a nudi branch has become a lesser of two evils. But based on what I see, the nudi branch would be fine for several years. The flatworms I have see to be more brownish, but some do look kinda redish, so I am not sure, maybe both, lol
 
If you still want a velvet sea slug (nudi) look up sedra power head and look for 2500 and when you open the page just go to the coral&inverts and look for Nudibranch thay are about $16.99
Or go to www.fishsupply.com good luck
 
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