Grrrr.. Need some help

[sytanek]

Okay, I have the normal planaria(not the red) in my 55g, and I can not get rid of them. I have dosed flatworm exit multiple times and even stronger and stronger every time, and always there are some that don't die. Today I dosed for 2x my tank volume, and 4 hours later still can find one or two on the glass still alive. Any suggestions? Tried the coris wrasse, he doesn't care for them. It's not that they are gone then show back up, but that they never all die to begin with. I don't have massive amounts of them, but I would like to get this system planaria free. Any help?

BTW, have plenty of flow running through the tank. That was one of my first moves before I first dosed flatworm exit.

Thanks!

 

[Swirlygig]

six line wrasse? maybe ur yellow is a vegetarian? ^_^

 

[Swirlygig]

btw i have them also, they don't do any harm...don't seem to multiply very fast either...

 

[waterfaller1]

What do you mean by 'normal' planeria? What do they look like? Are they clear with a forked tail?

 

[rdmpe]

Maybe you could swap out your yellow coris for a different one or add a second small one? I also had an Elegant Coris that seemed to eat them. Lastly - maybe mandarins eat them? Siphoning and predation worked for me.

 

[EQCM2B]

The same thing happened to me, dosed once and they came back, dosed again and they came back again. It was not until about the fourth time that I said enough is enough. I high dosed the tank and started to remove my rock and corals to other containers also dosed with FWE. This finally took care of the problem. I think that I had so many and they were deep in the rockwork that even though I had plenty of circulation it was still not reaching deep into the rock and pores of the rock. By moving the rock around it assisted the FWE to reach everywhere.
HTH

Steve

 

[cowboyswife]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=10198197#post10198197 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by waterfaller1
What do you mean by 'normal' planeria? What do they look like? Are they clear with a forked tail?

Thanks to Marcye and her microscope, they look like this.

 

[sytanek]

The problem is the ones I still see were on the glass the whole tie which means they should be exposed, not hiding in a rock.

 

[sytanek]

That guy is at max 1cm long.

 

[sytanek]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=10198197#post10198197 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by waterfaller1
What do you mean by 'normal' planeria? What do they look like? Are they clear with a forked tail?

Becca says they aren't really clear they are more of a brownish color. But they do have a forked tail. I mean normal as in they are not the red ones.

 

[cowboyswife]

They're brown, not the clear ones.

 

[sytanek]

This is a pretty good representation of what I have, min size is 1mm max 1cm

 

[sytanek]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=10196257#post10196257 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Swirlygig
btw i have them also, they don't do any harm...don't seem to multiply very fast either...

I agree they don't seem to multiply very fast at all, They are not on any of my corals, and they are so tiny I wouldn't be able to spot them on the rock. There are 2 on the glass right now, If I wait a week or two there may be one more, but not 100's more. They don't group up and smother stuff like the red ones seem to.

 

[waterfaller1]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=10198421#post10198421 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by sytanek

This is a pretty good representation of what I have, min size is 1mm max 1cm

These eat copepods. I believe I have introduced them to my refugium a time or two with the purchase of live copepods.

 

[sytanek]

thus the reason to try to get rid of them. lol.

the two I can actually see in the tank right now are about 1mm. I've only seen 1 or 2 reach 1cm, and those were killed with the fwe.

 

[sytanek]

Hrmmm, I wonder if I got them the same way...

 

[sytanek]

How did you get rid of them?

 

[waterfaller1]

Squish them & syphon them. They actually will die off. I have had them come and go. It seemed to me with certain live pods I consistently got them, so I stopped purchasing those. Now I buy only one kind and have'nt had any problems with them.

 

[sytanek]

lol, I just want them to go, have lots of nice zoos that need fragging. lol

 

[waterfaller1]

A copepod eating fish like a scooter dragonet might help. They eat the copepods=less copepods=less flatworms. Try to find a scooter that takes prepared food like Piscine brand mysis shrimp, cylop-eeze, etc., so when the pod numbers drop the fish will still be able to eat.