Please help identify flatworms

[CoralBeauty13]

If you follow my post I have fought these things for years. I tried everything under the sun and it only work a bit, or it was like putting them on steroids. FWE helped a small bit, but after 4 tries I gave up, two of my fish were sick after the doses.. Siphoning was a pain as I had so many.Two years later I went for it and bought a six line wrasse. I did not want any new fish as I have almost all the other wrasse people were talking about and nothing happened


That little guy Kicked major butt. In a few weeks he took out 100's of them. I have just a few now, but he has it under control. He'll pick it right off if he swims by and sees one. I'm so happy now. I have lost so many coral because of that dang thing. DIP DIP DIP. They will wipe your coral out.

 

[ReefWhatYouSow]

If you follow my post I have fought these things for years. I tried everything under the sun and it only work a bit, or it was like putting them on steroids. FWE helped a small bit, but after 4 tries I gave up, two of my fish were sick after the doses.. Siphoning was a pain as I had so many.Two years later I went for it and bought a six line wrasse. I did not want any new fish as I have almost all the other wrasse people were talking about and nothing happened





That little guy Kicked major butt. In a few weeks he took out 100's of them. I have just a few now, but he has it under control. He'll pick it right off if he swims by and sees one. I'm so happy now. I have lost so many coral because of that dang thing. DIP DIP DIP. They will wipe your coral out.

Thank you for letting me know your experiences with these guys and what measures you have taken. Luckily, I don't think it is a total infestation. But I can find them in lighter areas of frag plugs which who knows how many are on the "darker" surfaces where I can't see them.

I'm a big proponent of sipping but I'm going to assume that there were gags on one of these corals. I have a friend with a microscopic camera and he inspects everything he buys. If he sees something on it, to the garbage it goes. A lot of work but so is this[emoji15]

I think I'm going to try to do half dose of FWE today to see how many start floating and I'll do a huge water change. And then definitely run the carbon.

In what way did your fish get sick? Did they survive?

 

[shifty51008]

Deff take it slow, ive never heard of fish getting sick from the FWE but they can depending on how many flatworms die off at a time as they can poision the tank and the tanks oxygen level drops alot. This is why syphoning is very important, just use a 1/4" airline, nothing to big so your not takeing out alot of water or you can run the line in a filter sock to catch the worms and save the water which is what i did.

Last time i used FWE i made sure i was running extra carbon, made sure the skimmer was working good to provide extra o2 and even had a air stone on hand just in case i saw the fish breathing hard.

Take it slow and youll do fine.

 

[ReefWhatYouSow]

Quick update for everyone...

Did about a 50-75% dose on the tank, followed by a 25% water change. I can do another water change this weekend if needed. Let me know if you all think that would be a good thing.

There really weren't as many flatworms floating up as I expected. Some things came up looking like them, and some were just little black dots. I siphoned them all up. You can never be too careful.

Also used twice as much carbon as suggested. Fish are looking good at this time and I will continue to keep my eyes on everything and let you all know my findings.

Thanks again the advice!