Red/Brown flat worm predators?

[Lyscer]

How many of you have had mandarin dragonettes eat the red/brown flatworms? I was thinking about getting a blue velvet nudibranch but I don't want my cleaner shrimp/peppermint shrimp to eat it. I have a sixline wrasse but he doesn't seem to eat them.

 

[afishyonados]

The dragonettes will occasionally eat the Planaria, but noone can eat too much at once. Picture a habanero pepper, while some humans can stand 1 or 2, there are very few who can eat a whole plate full!
Most of the smaller Coris species and Anampses species of wrasse will also eat some.
Very few animals will eat a nudibranch. Consider it a concentrated habanero!

 

[Lyscer]

so you don't think that the shrimp will eat a nudibranch if I get one? Very good analogy btw.

 

[afishyonados]

Thank you!
Mosyt likely, the shrimp will recognize the Nudibranch as toxic. Mother nature has a way of coloring the deadly ones to warn us...

 

[Lyscer]

anyone else?