NanoGurl's 75g Reef Thread

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<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=10092903#post10092903 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by melev
No worries. Just keep siphoning them out every day. You'll definitely put a dent in their population if you keep at it.

The Phosban Reactor holds up to 3 cups of carbon. You can use any carbon sold for aquarium use, and even Walmart has a private label brand that is supposedly the same as Black Diamond from the LFS. It will need a tiny pump to move water through the reactor, so a MiniJet or MaxiJet 600 would be fine. The reactor comes with a ballvalve that goes on the input side so you can slow the flow going <u>in</u> to the reactor.

As the other person stated, when you do start to treat your tank be ready to siphon them out of the system during their death throes. You want to extract them and their toxin quickly, so siphon them into a bucket rather than into a sock in the sump. You'll see them dying, flapping in the flow on a web-like string. Siphon any you can see. That limits the amount of toxins released.

If you still see some a few days later, treat the tank again while they are still weak.
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Thanks! Should I still do a water change after treatment? How long should I wait and how much?
 
This thread is contagious. I'm looking in my tank yesterday and what do I see but a couple of flatworms......great, great. I must have picked them up from your thread. Thanks NG ! So I went and got a sixline today. I have been siphoning them out with airline tubing when I see them also. I'm gonna keep following your thread but I'm gonna go stand in the back. ;)Flatworms ....jeezzz.
 
just a quick note on the carbon, it is a good idea to rinse and soak new carbon in ro/di before using it. This will remove the dust and saturate it with oxygen. (it will suckup oxygen from your tank if you do not let it do its thing with rinse water first) It only takes a few minutes to do this...
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=10093246#post10093246 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by NanoGurl
omg lol. So not cool. I'm sorry!!!! I feel so dirty and unwanted!!!!
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You know better than that NG:) I love those blue shrooms, and very nice RBTA!
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=10093246#post10093246 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by NanoGurl
omg lol. So not cool. I'm sorry!!!! I feel so dirty and unwanted!!!!
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No worries . . . I got a new fish out of the deal :)
 
By the links given are you still having the flatys :(. Well good luck and I'm sure the tank will pull. Like the new anemone. Have the clowns hosted?
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=10093393#post10093393 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Randall_James
just a quick note on the carbon, it is a good idea to rinse and soak new carbon in ro/di before using it. This will remove the dust and saturate it with oxygen. (it will suckup oxygen from your tank if you do not let it do its thing with rinse water first) It only takes a few minutes to do this...
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Thanks! That's a good idea!
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=10093768#post10093768 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by muelpaul
You know better than that NG:) I love those blue shrooms, and very nice RBTA!
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Thnx! My BTA sux! It moved under my cave. It's literally hanging upside down under the spot where it was. Guess it didn't like something.

Maybe it will like my toilet bowl? HmmmMmMmm???
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=10103838#post10103838 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by joeyjoeq
By the links given are you still having the flatys :(. Well good luck and I'm sure the tank will pull. Like the new anemone. Have the clowns hosted?
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Thanks! Yea, I'm still having the problem. Haven't really tried to deal with the problem yet. No, the clowns are hosting to my open brain!
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=10086397#post10086397 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by NanoGurl
Tuesday Update!

Well I decided to go ahead and start working on the Flatworm project. I took Marc's advice (great info ty!) and started to siphon out the FW's.


Here is a photo after I was done siphoning.
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Now, my next question. What is the best way for me to run Carbon for the FW Exit? I need to get some, I don't have any.
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bummer. what ya got there is a flat worm plague. i had the dredded red planeria, but as melev suggested, flat worm exit works great. just dont forget to retreat your tank after a week to dispose of any stragglers, or they will repopulate...
 
Thats a lot of flat worms! Good thing your siphoning out as much as you can because when you hit them with flatworm exit, if there is too many of them, they can release a lot of toxins to crash your tank.

Oh yeah, if the instructions say 40 drops for a 50 gallon tank, just to be sure, use like 50 drops. I've followed the instructions before and at the specified number of drops, some of the flatworms were unaffected. But when I put a few more drops, they started feeling it. Of course watch your tank and siphon any dead ones out and then 10-15 mins after, run carbon and do a water change. You should be fine.
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=10107814#post10107814 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by NanoGurl
Thanks! Yea, I'm still having the problem. Haven't really tried to deal with the problem yet. No, the clowns are hosting to my open brain!
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Dam you open brain!:lol:
 
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