looking for blue velvet nudibranchs

[danfrith]

Anybody have a blue velvet nudibranch they want to pass on or sell cheap. Thanks.

 

[jbarone]

I got one a while ago from MS. If you need it for flatworms, it did nothing for me. They can not handle any real amount of flow thus they just get blown around the tank until they die. JMO

 

[Reeferhead]

I've used these guys in the past for flatworms. They will decimate the flatworms very quickly but then die even quicker of starvation. Then the flatworms will come back strong as ever, it only takes one to survive, they reproduce asexually very quickly.

 

[danfrith]

Thanks guys. Yeah these planaria flatworms are a real pain. I've tried the salifert treatment and it kills alot of them but there are always a few that get away. And then divide.

 

[Reeferhead]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=10399233#post10399233 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by danfrith
Thanks guys. Yeah these planaria flatworms are a real pain. I've tried the salifert treatment and it kills alot of them but there are always a few that get away. And then divide.

I've tried the same thing, even triple doses, without using carbon for over a hour. They still come back. However, I think I've finally kept them in check in my main tank with a sixline wrasse. He wasn't able to eat them fast enough on his own but after a couple FW Exit treatments he can now keep up. The flatworms have been limited to just my fuge for the past 6 months.

 

[danfrith]

So your sixline wrasse actually eats them? I have a carpenters and he used to pick at them in the water column when I brushed them off the glass but he would immediatly spit them out.

 

[Reeferhead]

He eats them only if he's really hungry and there is nothing else available.