How to treat these?

[clowndude]

I tried treating these with Flatworm Exit, but it didn't phase them. Anybody have any ideas on how to get rid of these?

 

[iap]

Blow them in the water and siphon them out. Or get a wrasse

 

[flyyyguy]

fwe should kill them

those are not aefw's

if you werent already...up your dosage of fwe.

If there arent tons of them you can safely double or even quadruple(or more) the dosage of fwe

 

[clowndude]

fwe should kill them

those are not aefw's

if you werent already...up your dosage of fwe.

If there arent tons of them you can safely double or even quadruple(or more) the dosage of fwe

Will those eat my acroporas? I'm worried because I've been losing sps here and there. Lost a pearl berry almost over night and now I'm losing a frag from the base up. I dipped almost all my sps today in coral dip by seachem. I've hear that CoralRX is really good. Are those two products similar? I'm currently looking for a sixline wrasse to add to the tank hoping he will eat these things.

 

[djkms]

Following along. I have the same Flatworms on my glass. Just lost a bushy acro last night but was able to save a small piece. I had a buddy come over from our local club today and he said don't worry about them they are not aefw. However, this is just to coincidental this happened to you as well.

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[jdieck]

I would not worry much about those as they are not damaging and usually do not reach plague proportions but the best natural way if you want to get rid of them will be to get a wrasse as mentioned in a previous post.

 

[clowndude]

Following along. I have the same Flatworms on my glass. Just lost a bushy acro last night but was able to save a small piece. I had a buddy come over from our local club today and he said don't worry about them they are not aefw. However, this is just to coincidental this happened to you as well.

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I do find it weird that these are harmless, yet I'm slowly losing acros. I could be looking into this wrong, but it certainly is weird these things are appearing that I'm losing them. I'm also having problems keeping the purple and blue's in my acroporas also. That might be a whole different problem though.

 

[buy_baff]

Sound's like you have a water quality problem. Those are red planaria and are harmless to sps.

 

[clowndude]

Sound's like you have a water quality problem. Those are red planaria and are harmless to sps.

Not sure what it could be though. Po4 is around .05-0, alk is around 9.75-10, cal is around 480. I run chemi-pure elite. Few days ago u lowered the light from 7 inches off the water to about 4 thinking maybe the light was to far up, so I'll have to wait another couple of weeks to see of that helps. I'm thinking about running phosguard or something. I'm also dripping kalk in my top off water. My temp goes from about 77 lights off to 78.9 light on. Photo period is 6 hours a day. What are your thoughts?

 

[Reeference]

melunaris wrass does wonder

 

[rogerwilco357]

have you looked over the dead corals for eggs?

 

[Logzor]

Not sure what it could be though. Po4 is around .05-0, alk is around 9.75-10, cal is around 480. I run chemi-pure elite. Few days ago u lowered the light from 7 inches off the water to about 4 thinking maybe the light was to far up, so I'll have to wait another couple of weeks to see of that helps. I'm thinking about running phosguard or something. I'm also dripping kalk in my top off water. My temp goes from about 77 lights off to 78.9 light on. Photo period is 6 hours a day. What are your thoughts?

It could be a huge number of factors. I can guarantee that those flatworms are not harming you SPS, though.

I would be very careful making attempts to *fix* the problem when you are not entirely sure what the problem is. For example, phosphate are probably not the problem so running phosban could make the problem significantly worse.

It sounds like your tank is very stable and your parameters are in check, so lets see if we can root out any other variables. What is your salinity and how are you measuring it? Do you have a magnesium test kit?

How is the flow in your aquarium? Red planaria tend to show up in aquarium with too little flow.

 

[clowndude]

It could be a huge number of factors. I can guarantee that those flatworms are not harming you SPS, though.

I would be very careful making attempts to *fix* the problem when you are not entirely sure what the problem is. For example, phosphate are probably not the problem so running phosban could make the problem significantly worse.

It sounds like your tank is very stable and your parameters are in check, so lets see if we can root out any other variables. What is your salinity and how are you measuring it? Do you have a magnesium test kit?

How is the flow in your aquarium? Red planaria tend to show up in aquarium with too little flow.

my salinty runs 1.025-1.026, and I check it with my instant ocean hydrometer. I also have the store check it wit their reeffractometer(think that's what it is called?). I am currently running brightwell salt, could that be an issue? I've heard it has levels pretty compariable to seawater. It has a higher mag than most salts I've heard. I want to run D-D H2ocean but no one sells it around me.

I do not have a mag test, but will be ordering one soon.

I keep thinking it's the Hamilton 14k bulb not putting off enough blue, but I could be wrong there. It is my only light source as I have limited space for lighting over the biocube.

I have a mp20 on my biocube 29 and have it about a quarter of the way up because when it is really turned up it seems like it's to much flow. I could be wrong though.

 

[clowndude]

It could be a huge number of factors. I can guarantee that those flatworms are not harming you SPS, though.

I would be very careful making attempts to *fix* the problem when you are not entirely sure what the problem is. For example, phosphate are probably not the problem so running phosban could make the problem significantly worse.

It sounds like your tank is very stable and your parameters are in check, so lets see if we can root out any other variables. What is your salinity and how are you measuring it? Do you have a magnesium test kit?

How is the flow in your aquarium? Red planaria tend to show up in aquarium with too little flow.

Two more things I just thought about.

About two weeks ago or so, I had to treat the tank for cyno because it was growing all over the sand like crazy.

Also I do not feed the corals, should I start feeding them something like coral frenzy?

 

[clowndude]

Two more things I just thought about.

About two weeks ago or so, I had to treat the tank for cyno because it was growing all over the sand like crazy.

Also I do not feed the corals, should I start feeding them something like coral frenzy?

 

[clowndude]

One more thing I'd like to add is that I'm running a refug in the second chamber with different types of macro algae. The light for the refug is on a different schedule from the mh so it runs when the MH is off.

Here is the list of fish and other things I have in the tank:

-blue spotted jawfish. (love this guy)
-pair of Picasso clowns
-prawn goby
-watchman goby
-green goby
-pair of sexy shrimp
-blue legged hermit crab
-nassuesa snails

 

[clowndude]

Wells it seems like I may have semi fixed my problem with my acropora colors. I started feeding the tank coral frenzy and just after three days the sps seem to be responding nicely. I had forgotten that one of my sps actually had green polyps and is no turning purple. I've also noticed my gar bonsai is turning a darker color now and extending it's polyps once again. I also lowered the light from about 8 inches off the water to about 4 inches off the water. I have a phoenix 14k bulb which should be here Thursday and I'm excited to see how it can help with coloring up the sps.

 

[Korrine]

About those worms. My vote is for a H. melanurus(Hoeven's wrasse) wrasse or a H. Chrysus wrasse (yellow wrasse). Both are great tank mates and are pretty docile and will eat the flat worms right up!

Here is a pic of my old Melanurus. She did great on my flatworms.

 

[clowndude]

About those worms. My vote is for a H. melanurus(Hoeven's wrasse) wrasse or a H. Chrysus wrasse (yellow wrasse). Both are great tank mates and are pretty docile and will eat the flat worms right up!

Here is a pic of my old Melanurus. She did great on my flatworms.

Beautiful wrasse. I currently have a sixline and my wife really likes the yellow coris wrasse so I'm probably going to get one of those.

 

[Korrine]

It's not a yellow coris. Not even a coris type wrasse at all. Bad evil common name :hammer:

Yellow wrasse, or Canary wrasse are more appropriate. Or call it by it's scientific name so that anyone can google it and come up with the same fish.

Good wrasse choice They do like to sleep in the sand at night so have an 1" at least of fine sand for it to dive into :thumbsup: