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[onad75]

I have some of this red thing.. in my sand bed and some on my tank wall ,
Any idea's on what this guy is?
Is this bad ?
How to get rid of it?

Thanks

 

[waytoodeep]

Those are flatworms ...You need flat worm exit .by salifirt .

make sure you dont have too many .If so

Make sure you have lots of carbon ,poly filters and atleast a 40% water change after treatment

Flatworms are toxin when they die ,so you must be careful when treating you tank with FWE

What i think you should do if you have lots of them ,Is take out your coarls and place them in a QT tank ,treat your tank do a water change ,treat your corals in a 10 or 20 gal tank ,and acclimate them back in your tank ..then you can do one more treatment with the corals in your tank to make sure you have got all of them ,2cd treatment should be done in a few days

 

[onad75]

thanks for the reply,
I have 50g with some hard corals, Lps and soft corals, 2 clams and 20g sump/fuge,
is the FWE will be bad for my refugium?
What is gonna happen if i treat my tank without removing all my corals?

 

[waytoodeep]

if you have too many Flat worm they will get stressed out or could die ,if not careful
A person i know just did it and killed most of his tank ,he also had about 2 million of them in his tank thou

 

[jjmcat]

Be careful if you have any monties as well.

 

[onad75]

thanks alot waytoodeep,
I have another 40g that i just set up 6 weeks ago, do i still need to do a FW deep my coral before i put them im my 40g?
I will do a water change today and i will sipon as much as i can then Ill buy the FWE so i can start curing my tank.

 

[onad75]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=7322588#post7322588 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by jjmcat
Be careful if you have any monties as well.

sorry
what do you mean ? can you explain it more,

 

[EvilInSin]

The best thing to do before you FWE is to get as many of the worms out as you can. The less worms the less toxin in your water. You can shake them off your corals (I get a bucket of my old tank water after a change and hold coral by the rock its on and shake well, they come right off) then you can also suck them up off sand or what not with a turkey baster. After you get as many as you can then you should do the FWE and as per the instructions after you see die off starting then you have to add carbon. It says you dont NEED to do a water change unless you see coral reacting badly, but I did after 6 hrs anyway just to be sure. tho I only did about 25% change.

 

[onad75]

its 1 drop of FWE fer gallon right?
I have a 50g tank and 30 gallon sump/fuge, so do i still need to include the water volume of my sump ?

 

[jjmcat]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=7322629#post7322629 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by onad75
sorry
what do you mean ? can you explain it more,

A buddy of mine treated his tank and he had a coulpe of montis wiped out.One of them totaly bleached out.

 

[onad75]

thanks for the info jjmcat..

so far so good its been two days now since i start sipponing any flat worm i see in my sand bed and live rocks, let see if i can do this without using FWE,

 

[gflat65]

Mandarins and six line wrasses are known to decimate populations. Looks like you've got a decent breeding group (by the number gathered around the clam), but you aren't generally in danger until you have thousands of them. They are toxic to everything in your system once they start to die off (which is where the carbon comes in).

 

[onad75]

I have 6 line wrasse and i think he just ignoring them.