Flatworms

ksanmamaril

ksanmamaril

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Bah!!

First off i want to apologize to those who i promised to do trades with this week and do sales with this week. I'm sorry.

But yeah i noticed that i had some star trek things moving about on the glass. I was hoping it wasn't what i thought it was but unfortunately it was.

I found out the source of nuisance. I rather not say what shop i got it from but all i know is that i won't be purchasing coral from them or if i do, make sure to do a thorough inspection of it before introducing it in my tank. I guess its my fault, the one time i didn't inspect frag/coral, i end up with flat worms.

Also this is not the first case of hearing about flatworms at that store, I had buddies go there and end up with the problem. Totally forgot at the time.

But yeah anyone know which one works well that is reef safe? also i only have a NC24, so if anyone can spare me medication that they no longer need please let me know. I'm kinda broke at the moment so i'm trying not to spend all that much on just 24 or so drops of it. (sailfret Flatworm exit).

Let me know, i will be trying to treat it this weekend before they reproduce even more. so far i've only counted about 10 or so on the glass. about a the size of one ground black pepper.

thanks again.

- kent
 
i just hope they are not this size

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just kidding, i found this little sucker last night, it ate my clam....maybe someone with flatworm exit will help you, it works fine, just make sure to get as many of them out before treatment...good luck

sana
 
You can siphon them out with airline tubing and get a yellow coris wrasse. They love flat worms!
I had a bad case of them and that cleared them up in no time
 
my flatworms are tiny though, i was about to pick up a yellow coris yesterday not knowing they eat flatworms, should of got them instead of the fish i got yesterday. bah!!!
 
Lol you should still be able to siphon them out even if they are tiny just get smaller tubing and the wrasse its the best way....hate them damn things !!!!!!
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=14173919#post14173919 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by cidermaster
hate them damn things !!!!!!
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+1 First time having it, and i hate it already!!! i'll never buy coral from them again.

OT: 300 + post finally woot woot :lol:
 
I had a Flatworm invastion about 2 months ago. I never used to coral dip, now I do it every time. Probably have just the amount left of Sailfret Flatworm Exit that you are looking for. Willing to trade for a Zoa frag?
 
Sorry that I did not have enought for you. A couple of notes;
1 make sure that you suck out as many as possible before you start the treatment (they excrete toxic fluids when they die)
2 mine died in two waves - the ones on the surface of the rocks died within 5 min, then a second wave of them died after about 20 minutes later, they were in the crevious of the rocks.
3 I had to do a second treatment because many of them hid in my crushed coral. I had to remove all of the crushed coral and submerse it in boiling water to kill everything.

Good luck!
 
I have use Blue Life Phosphate remover to get rid of them. Only dose at half the recommended dosage each day. You will not see them dieing, but after a week or so you will see they are all gone and it will not kill all your ampapods, copapods and you don't have to worry about them poisoning the tank when they die off. Keep dosing daily at that rate just to be sure they are all gone for 2 - 3 weeks. We do not not want any mutant strains poping up. This treatment will kill them all. I have gotten rid of them in many tanks this way, one very heavily infested.

If you use at a heavier dosage it may kill your snails and other invertebrates. A full strength dosage may also kill some fish, if you do not have phosphates in your system. There is no reason to use more then 3 drops per 10 gallons of water. As an added bonus it will reduce your Phosphates.
 
What kind of flatworms are we talking about here? AEFW? Cause I thought there was no in-tank treatment? I am assuming you guys are talking about red planaria or some other less harmful nuisance flat worms. But why would one treatment kill one type and not the other? Seems like flatworms are flatworms...
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=14175424#post14175424 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by 90sShooter
What kind of flatworms are we talking about here? AEFW? Cause I thought there was no in-tank treatment? I am assuming you guys are talking about red planaria or some other less harmful nuisance flat worms. But why would one treatment kill one type and not the other? Seems like flatworms are flatworms...
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thats what i thought, flatworms are flatworms. mine aren't the AEFW, its just a nuisance and i wanna attack them while they are small, don't want to get it all big and create a toxin pool later on. I saw ur thread about the AEFW you have. Were you able to get rid of them?

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=14175376#post14175376 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by laverda
I have use Blue Life Phosphate remover to get rid of them. Only dose at half the recommended dosage each day. You will not see them dieing, but after a week or so you will see they are all gone and it will not kill all your ampapods, copapods and you don't have to worry about them poisoning the tank when they die off. Keep dosing daily at that rate just to be sure they are all gone for 2 - 3 weeks. We do not not want any mutant strains poping up. This treatment will kill them all. I have gotten rid of them in many tanks this way, one very heavily infested.

If you use at a heavier dosage it may kill your snails and other invertebrates. A full strength dosage may also kill some fish, if you do not have phosphates in your system. There is no reason to use more then 3 drops per 10 gallons of water. As an added bonus it will reduce your Phosphates.
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Hey I started researching on this and I saw one case of this aside from your case. Does anyone else know if it works? BTW where can i get them? The LFS here in west covina/walnut area don't carry blue life and i'll be making trips to OC tomorrow so i'm looking for a LFS in the OC that will carry it... how much is it too :) lol.
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=14175434#post14175434 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by ksanmamaril
Hey I started researching on this and I saw one case of this aside from your case. Does anyone else know if it works? BTW where can i get them? The LFS here in west covina/walnut area don't carry blue life and i'll be making trips to OC tomorrow so i'm looking for a LFS in the OC that will carry it... how much is it too :) lol.
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Give Pacific Reef in Fountain Valley a call. I know they had it a while back but not sure if they still have any in stock.
 
I should have been specific about what the treatment I described will kill and that is the Planiria flatworms. They are the small red flat worms that get all over everything and multiply rapidly. They do not seem to harm anything, but get ugly every where. This is what it sounded to me like ksanmamaril has.

I have always gotten the Blue Life Phosphate Controll at Marine Depot. I do not know who else carries it. I have found red scooter blennies will eat them too.
 
Kent, if you are in the area today you can swing by and just pick up what I have left of the Flatworm Exit. Sounds like from your first post that it should be enough for 1 treatment.
 
I had one shroom that started with one flatworm and slowly became 12 or so. I just tried the siphon method and looks like my worms are gone. Thanks for the suggestion!
 
When I was at RAP I talked to the guy at the blue life booth and they dont make the Flat worm stuff any more.


With my breakout in my 45 gal tank I use Salifert Flat work Exit. it works well but you need to do 2 treatments. My little tank was really bad too all the rocks was covered with it and that was all you can see. I syphoned out as many as I could and then treated it.

I dip my SPS and LPS corals in Potassium Permanganate when I get new specimens I dip in WM coral dip and then Potassium Permanganate in 15 mil in one gal and then rinse in clean solt water and you can see the flatworms fall off. I got some stuff from Vivid and I found some flatworms on it and I found a acro flatworm on another. I will dip that coral in a few days to get rid of the newly hatch warms. I hope this help...:)
 
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