RBTA and flatworm exit?

[Troy the Nomad]

Safe to use? Any experiences?

 

[dudley moray]

there are nudi's that eat nothing but flatworms (planaria)
they are sold as blue velvet nudibranchs !!
i am personally always iffy about using those kinds of treatments

 

[Troy the Nomad]

Thanks, I know about the blue velvets and if one comes up locally, I'll get it. That aside, is fw exit safe with rbta's?

 

[tufacody]

Yes, I've used FE with no ill result to my nems. Its the toxins from the flats that you have to be more careful with.

 

[imcosmokramer]

blue velvets are not a great solution for FWs. While they do eat them, and are very cool to watch, they:

a. have a an extremely short life expectancy in aquariums.
b. will never eat every single FW you have
c. at some point, will eat enough that they starve due to lack of food (you could trade them before this happens)
d. Do not do well in high flow.

I've used FWE with my RBTA's, they were fine.

 

[Troy the Nomad]

Thanks guys! I've used FW Exit successfully in the past, but not on a tank with nems. I added a 4 line wrasse a while back, but I never see him touch them. The population is getting to big so it's time to take action.

 

[SaylorsReef]

The flatworm exit itself will not hurt the anemones. However, the toxins released from the flatworms can crash your entire tank. Since your population is getting big, I would concentrate on siphoning them. You can siphone the water through a filter sock, putting the same water back in the tank, repeating as needed. This is time consuming, but the safest IMO. Once you get the population down you can use the flatworm exit. Be prepared for water changes, and run carbon after.

 

[Troy the Nomad]

The flatworm exit itself will not hurt the anemones. However, the toxins released from the flatworms can crash your entire tank. Since your population is getting big, I would concentrate on siphoning them. You can siphone the water through a filter sock, putting the same water back in the tank, repeating as needed. This is time consuming, but the safest IMO. Once you get the population down you can use the flatworm exit. Be prepared for water changes, and run carbon after.

Thanks, unfortunately, I'm a FWE veteran What I do is siphon, then take out all euphilia(SP)and some loose rock where the FW seem to congregate and treat those in a hospital tank with FWE. I do this to keep as much FW toxins as possible out of the tank. I also treat my tank at the same time. It's only a 24 so we are not talking about a lot of water. Followed by carbon and a WC.
I was really hoping the wrasse would take care of the FW's. I used to have a golden wrasse in there that kept them in check, but my clown started to bully it.

 

[SaylorsReef]

Even better!