need something to eat flatworms

[ezhoops]

title says it all. But does that mean that this fish will not be reef safe?

 

[saltjohnswharf]

Certain wrasses eat flatworms and are reef safe. Blue Velvet sea slug is also known to eat them. Also try Salifert Flatworm Exit.

 

[ezhoops]

going for an all natural predator, no chemicals in my reef

 

[MCCOOL]

My Melanurus wrasse eats them, I don't know if they all do or not.

They are coral safe...

 

[dkanka]

Six-lined wrasse and yellow coris wrasse are other options.

 

[SDguy]

going for an all natural predator, no chemicals in my reef

I feel the same way, but please don't dismiss FWE so quickly. It is AMAZINGLY specific in what it kills, and more to the point, what is doesn't. Just sayin'...

 

[saltjohnswharf]

going for an all natural predator, no chemicals in my reef

So rat poison is out? BTW every time you make saltwater you are adding chemicals to you reef. Just saying.

 

[ezhoops]

So rat poison is out? BTW every time you make saltwater you are adding chemicals to you reef. Just saying.

That is like saying everytime you breath you inhale oxygen... You kind of need to make saltwater. Just saying

 

[saltjohnswharf]

That is like saying everytime you breath you inhale oxygen...

Well duh

 

[elegance coral]

I bet my long fin fairy wrasse(cirrhilabrus rubriventralis) would eat them, if I had them. He attacks bristle worms, and is always picking at the rocks. I don't think any tiny critters are safe around him.

 

[ezhoops]

I've got a red velvet wrasse that doesn't eat them, at least yet. Had him 3 weeks

 

[Wolverine]

There are no fish that are anywhere near a surefire bet for eating flatworms. If there's a fish that might eat them, and you happen to like that fish enough to put it in your tank, then go for it. But be prepared for disappointment in the FW eradication.

 

[ezhoops]

so then what do you suggest Wolverine? BTW you live minutes from me.

 

[Wolverine]

I've had excellent luck with Flatworm Exit, but I've found you have to overdose by 40-50% of what the directions say (I follow all other parts of the directions to do a T).
As I said, if there's a fish that you like, that might eat flatworms, there's no harm in trying that. I've just seen too many people (myself included) who have gotten a fish they didn't really want because they were told it eats flatworms, only to end up with a tank full a flatworms a fish they don't like and can't catch.

I was right in your neighborhood over the weekend. We tried Cafe Muse for the first time (we'd been thinking about it for a long time, but never got around to it.

 

[Milky3]

Arrow crab

 

[univalreef]

I had flatworm 2 month ago on my 120. I bought Dragonet - Mandarin (Spotted) and it is under control now.

 

[djkms]

Yellow Coris Wrasse is working for me.

http://www.liveaquaria.com/product/prod_display.cfm?c=15+1379+386&pcatid=386

 

[Wolverine]

Yellow Coris Wrasse is working for me.

That's one of the definite "maybes".

 

[R33f3r]

I had flatworm 2 month ago on my 120. I bought Dragonet - Mandarin (Spotted) and it is under control now.

+1
I have one that I bought a few months back and he has wiped about 70% of them over that time period. They are going away slowly but surely.

 

[ezhoops]

would an orangel coris work as well?

are the coris wrasse going to eat my bristleworms, stomella snails, pods as well? not too worried about the pods and but my stomella snails and bristleworms i would like to have some left around