Salifert FLATWORM EXIT

[Tanthaitrung]

Dear friends

I found some worms in my display tank. And would like to treat with Salifert FLATWORM EXIT.

Salifert said it's quite safe to fishes and invertebrates. Do you think this product is safe for my clams and carpet anemones?

Thanks

 

[sdemon367]

Make sure you suck out as many worms as you can. What hurts the fish and inverts is the toxins released when the flat worms die. I have Kenya trees, acans, candy canes and a condy anemone. I got out as many as i could but wasn't enough. I treated my tank with flatworm exit and could watch the worms die they excreted some kind of long silk looking stuff and it went everywhere. After about a hour or so I could start seeing my fish rapid breathing and all the coral and anemone starting to close up. So I did a 20% water change as soon as I saw the stress. I saved everything including the worms[emoji35]. From now on I will always dip anything before it goes in my tank especially from a frag swap.

Suck out as many as possible.
Have a water change ready.
And monitor closely.

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[Tanthaitrung]

Thanks so much for your reply

 

[sdemon367]

You're welcome. It may take a few times to get rid of them all.

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[Tanthaitrung]

Thanks again my friend

 

[Tanthaitrung]

I don’t what kind the worm is. But I saw my Sohal Tang ate them

 

[bertoni]

I suspect it's not Convolutriloba retrogemma, the usually red plague, but Flatwork Exit might help. I agree with remove as many flatworms as possible, and netting them as they die might help, too. Water for changes and carbon can be handy. I always had to use two doses a few days or maybe a week apart to get all of them. I speculated that any eggs in the tank hatched in that time frame.

 

[Tanthaitrung]

Thanks so much.

I searched your words "œConvolutriloba retrogemma"œ and saw this picture (sorry, can not attach file)

The worms in my tank don't look like this. My Sohal Tang eats them. Do you think think the worms that the fishes can eat is safe?

 

[bertoni]

If the fish is eating them, I'd ignore the flatworms. The only problems with C retrogemma are that nothing will touch them, and they are not very esthetically pleasing.

 

[Tanthaitrung]

Big thanks

 

[bertoni]

You're welcome.

 

[smatter]

Flatworm Exit will never get all of them and they just come back stronger and you'll have to double and triple the dose. When I got to the higher doses certain things in my tank were negatively impacted. A flourishing community of Stomatella snails was wiped out, as were a large quantity of my mini brittle star population. I'd stay away from that product. Damsels of the genus Chrysiptera eat them. I've had several different types over the years and prefer C. springeri to do the job now. My red elongated dottyback also eats them.

 

[Aslmx]

Get a melanurus wrasse. Flat worm exit won’t work. They will just come back.

 

[Tanthaitrung]

Thanks so much all of you

 

[Scrubber_steve]

Speaking of Salifert Flatworm exit, I followed this recommendation http://www.practicalcoralfarming.co...ating-nudibranch-with-saliferts-flatworm-exit to get rid of Nudies on a zoa rock (couldn't remove it from tank to dip). It did nothing for the nudies, at all. I seem to however killed the cryptic sponges in my zone.

 

[Tanthaitrung]

Thanks so much for your information

 

[Scrubber_steve]

Thanks so much for your information

My pleasure

 

[laverda]

Several fish eat them including Scooter Blenies, Target mandarins and a few wrasses.

 

[Tanthaitrung]

Thanks so much for your info