plague of near biblical proportions

[jettster]

on a recent visit to my daughters room I thought she had a worse than usual algae bloom on closer exam it's flat worms I called the cr and talked to Dave he said flatworm exit would work but if too many died they might crash the tank 24g there is alot of them the rock is brown and the glass has large patches of them Dave said a spotted mandrine might eat them I know it's only a 24g but i have a 180 waiting in the basement to move my 55 fowler in it has lots of pods does anybody have any personal experience with a spotted mandrine will they eat flat worms thanks for the help

 

[ct_vol]

SixLines do better than Mandarins, but they're sassy little fish...

Personally, I'd go with the Flatworm exit, and be ready to do like a 50% water change and run carbon afterward... Flatworm exit will kill Cerith snails if you have any...

 

[cee]

Mystery wrasses are as good as six lines and MUCH cooler but also MUCH more expensive. But you would then be a card-carrying member of the "I spent too much money on a damn fish club so I could have something you don't see very often only to have it end up on the carpet" club like me

Dave

 

[mkbtank]

also - do a water change first and suck up as many as you can.

 

[fishdoc11]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=12602219#post12602219 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by mkbtank
suck up as many as you can.

Amen........FWE plus sucking out as many as you can before treating plus being ready with a large canister filter filled with carbon plus a fish to eat the few that will undoubtedly find a way to survive the treatment should do it

Chris

 

[jettster]

added a six line today and bought flat worm remover but I dont have time today to go through it maybe tomorrow wish me luck

 

[MJT82]

I went through this not too long ago... I had a MAJOR infestation... So bad that they would nearly cover the glass on my 30 gal... I tried manual removal to no avail, then I tried Flat Worm Exit...

Sucked out as many as possible first using Melev's flat worm sucker-outer (http://www.melevsreef.com/flatworms.html... cheap to build from LFS), dosed FWE, and sucked out all of the flatworms I could as they died. After I had enough of the sucking out flatworms, I did a water change, and ran carbon in my Phosban reactor. After a few days, I dosed FWE again, did a water change, and ran carbon. I waited another week or so and dosed FWE again to make sure I got them all, and ran carbon... I haven't seen any trace of flatworms since!

Moral of the story, look closely at the LFS' coral tanks... If you see flatworms at all, give anything you bring home a FWE dip!!

 

[ReefingMadness]

look closely at the LFS' coral tanks... If you see flatworms at all, give anything you bring home a FWE dip!!


I agree... We have a LFS that is infested and I don't think that they realize it.


We had a bunch in a 40B and got a Yellow Corris Wrasse. He made short work of them. He couldn't of been happier. Fairly cheap as well as good looking.


Thomas