Help confirm flatworm ID suspect Convolutriloba

karlandtanya

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Google image search led me to suspect this is a flatworm.

This is the most authoritative post I've found on Convolutriloba.
http://www.reefs.org/forums/post1446132.html#p1446132

If that's what this is, it seems there's nothing to worry about; folks seem to think they're ugly but harmless

Here's a picture of the little dude stuck to the glass.
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The tank is 60 gal with a wet/dry filter and a recently built DIY protein skimmer (pump air & water into 5 feet of 6" pvc. not fancy but it works).
Before the skimmer I had uncountable pods (look like cyclops, but so tiny hard to see). They would come out a couple hours after the lights went off; I think the skimmer has stripped almost all of them all out.
I guess too many pods is the same as too much any other food?

It's a new tank about 3 months old. So far just live rock, snails and hermits, and a star polyp. Nitrates & Phosphates undetectable, and the star polyp is growing.

Anyhow, thanks very much to anyone who knows if this is what I think it is.
 
Thanks--it definitely looks like Amphiscolops

Thanks--it definitely looks like Amphiscolops

Well, I was close, but still not quite right.
That little booger-on-the-glass looks exactly like the ones in the photos you linked.

From the pix in the link it looks like they can take over & look not so pretty.
Maybe running the skimmer flat out is the best thing. The pods can just go down the drain (or hide in their pile of rubble or whatever they do).
Probably what was feeding the worms anyhow.

Thanks for the ID!
 
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