flatworm exit

[dan10342]

I treated my tank with flatworm exit.

50-60 drops for my 30breeder and 20 long sump.

is it okay to just run carbon overnight, and do a waterchange in the morning?

 

[kase]

Do a water change and then run carbon after the water change and just monitor to make sure everything is ok.

 

[Steve Canyon]

Are your results positive? I've heard and read that even with high dosages, the results are mixed at best.

 

[dan10342]

I ended up dosing again after the waterchange.

all flatworms seem to be dead. i siphoned out hundreds of dead flatworms yesterday during 2nd waterchange.

 

[captain7359]

I dosed at just over thw reccomended rate and have had them come back with no new stock additions. I'm doing a 1.5X reccomended dose next to see if I can get them all this time.

 

[tmz]

I've used it a few times in the past. It works very well in my experience.It may take two applications, one at full strength and a second a week or so later at 1.5x dose. Acoela do leave eggs so complete erradication may take a little persistence.

 

[Srixon]

So how easy are they to see on black substrate when they are dead? If I get no answers to this I will be the experiment I guess.

 

[captain7359]

I was bad and didn't vac any out.....

did a 50 gallon wc on a 300 gallon system and put in 3 tuna cans of carbon in the reactor about 4 hours i dosed the fwe.

looked like brown snotty snow flakes for a little while. no losses and hardly even a single polyp retraction.

On a previous dosing of red slime remover I did somehow manage to kill off nearly all of my billion flat worms at once and did pretty good at p-o'ing the tank at that point. Didn't realize the wierd effects of the slime remover till the morning as I dosed it at bed time or I would have hit the carbon and water change immediately. rsr may have depressed o2 levels or had some other wierd chemical effect that started the fw chain of death, but no one had ever had any incident with the rsr.

 

[deladarkstep]

Stuck in the house all alone today I actually treated my 28 jbj today. Everything seems fine, but not sure how long to leave the carbon in there. take it out before bed or in the morning? treated @ 2 pm water changed @ 3. siphoned out a bunch, but couldnt get em all.

 

[dan10342]

welp.. some of the worms made it through. i tried another dose today x2 and no effect on remaining worms.

 

[Capt_Cully]

I dosed the **** out of my 40B in my basement. No carbon, no waterchange. Fish and corals still alive and well. Not saying I recommend it, but I'm not so scared of that stuff. Now, ask me if I'd do that in my big tank....