So i have/had a flatworm problem which i used flatworm exit for then did waterchange and ran carbon. The result...still have flatworms and killed most of my fish, i currently have a 125 gallon mixed reef with 3 green chromis, pair of perc clowns, yellow watchman goby and a small clown goby. Anyone have any suggestions on what would be some good fish to restock with, would like to get atleast 2 tangs. I had a hippo tang, yellow tang, copperbanded butterfly, redlip blenny, royal gramma all die, so i guess i am forced to restock.
killed half my fish, any suggestions.
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Give it a while on the restock [and quarantine!] to be sure you don't have a recurrence.
The purple tang would go nicely: scrappy little fellows with other tangs, but quite nice to everybody else. Eats algaes. Also picks at worms and other small life, so maybe he'd be a help in case of a reinfestation.
The Tomini is a modest little fellow with a nice attitude. The kole always looks worried, but is an attractive fish.
I'd suggest a black blenny, maybe a Carpenter's Wrasse, beautiful displaying fish, no threat to anybody in your tank. I'd avoid any butterfly until your tank re-stabilizes.
The purple tang would go nicely: scrappy little fellows with other tangs, but quite nice to everybody else. Eats algaes. Also picks at worms and other small life, so maybe he'd be a help in case of a reinfestation.
The Tomini is a modest little fellow with a nice attitude. The kole always looks worried, but is an attractive fish.
I'd suggest a black blenny, maybe a Carpenter's Wrasse, beautiful displaying fish, no threat to anybody in your tank. I'd avoid any butterfly until your tank re-stabilizes.
oh yeah, also lost my sixline in the disaster as well, thanks sk8r, i will look into those fish, just looked up the tomini, looks nice, i love purple tangs but want more than one tang, i am thinking about hitting tank again with flatworm exit, but i am a little nervous about it, might just try a spotted goby and see if he can irradicate the worms, whole reason i am trying to rid myself of them is so i can give away or sell my soft corals to switch to all lps/sps, but not having much luck there
wetone, i probably won't restock for a few weeks atleast, i will tell you though that you probably have many, many, many more flatworms than you think, i put in fwe and couldn't believe how many flatworms came out, so make sure you have a large amount of water to do a change out, if it weren't for me wanting to get rid of corals i would and still may just stick with natural predators, sucks to lose all of your fish
lilchris
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I wouldn't jump into restocking my tank until I had the flatworm situation taking care of. ( sure you knew that, just throwing it out there) From what I have been reading about getting rid of flat worms is that you have to siphon out as many worms as you can. Add the FWE treatment and siphon out the dead worms. When they die, they become very toxic to the fish. Unfortunately, you already know that waiting and doing a big water change is not the correct final step as to using that stuff. Sorry for your lost, that sucks when you lose your animals.
On to the suggestions. I would definitely find some cool wrasses. A solor wrasse (Cirrhilabrus solorensis) maybe a Scotts Fairy (Cirrhilabrus scottorum). For the tangs I would go w/ Atlantic Blue (Acanthurus coeruleus) or a yellow eyed Kole tang (Ctenochaetus strigosus). They are both active swimmers and are pretty colorful and hardier than the powders ( blue and brown) Just my suggestions.
On to the suggestions. I would definitely find some cool wrasses. A solor wrasse (Cirrhilabrus solorensis) maybe a Scotts Fairy (Cirrhilabrus scottorum). For the tangs I would go w/ Atlantic Blue (Acanthurus coeruleus) or a yellow eyed Kole tang (Ctenochaetus strigosus). They are both active swimmers and are pretty colorful and hardier than the powders ( blue and brown) Just my suggestions.
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=11920867#post11920867 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by wetone
I just ordered Flatworm exit and some carbon online...I have to do the same thing next week
If you dosed the FWE and still have them, why would you be restocking now...wouldnt yo want to dose again and get rid of the worms first??
I used Flaxworm Exit per the directions and lost no fish or coral, as have others. You absolutely MUST siphon out the worms as they die. That's what kills things (dead worms releasing toxins) - not the Flatworm Exit itself.
useskaforevil
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the way i got rid of my flatworms when they were nearly covering my rocks, was i bought apair of the velvet nudibranchs, and cut down on my feedings. i also have a orange mandarin that helped out but that worked perfectly. haven't seen any in over 6 months. sure beats all of the terrible stories i've heard from people using flatworm exit. i figured i'd just use the blue velvets and the mandarin to lower numbers first, but they seemed to wipe them out.
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