Site to ID Flat Worm

[N8thanExpl0sion]

Guys

Do you know of any sites that hosts PICs of good/bad flat worms. I have one and I want to know what it is. I saw this thing for like a second 8 months ago and again tonight. I have only ever seen the one.

It is kinda cool. It looks like a bit of white paper with a penciled line right down the center. He has doubled in size since the last time I saw him. Appologize no PIC he was kinda fast, did not expect to see him so Camera get, boot, snap was not gonna happen.

its about the size of my thumb and paper thin with a brown strip down the center. There are no antena, it is completely flat (except when its moving or course)

Thanks

 

[peasofme]

sounds bad tbh

 

[SushiGirl]

There are some shown here http://www.chucksaddiction.com/hitchworms.html and at the bottom of the page is a link to more, but the additional link I don't think says whether they're good or bad & it's a bit difficult to navigate unless you know where it might be from.

 

[pagojoe]

http://www.rzuser.uni-heidelberg.de/~bu6/flatintr.htm

Lots to read, lots of pics ^^^. They are beautiful, but they aren't well-loved by the aquarium crowd due to the fact that many of them eat snails and clams.

Cheers,




Don

 

[kmk2307]

It sounds like a polyclad flatworm but identifying it is hard unless you know where in the world it came from. It is probably carnivorous but if you aren't noticing anything dissappearing just leave it be. If you decide to get rid of it I would encourage you to photograph it and fix it in acetone or 75+% ethanol as I'm sure some biologist would love to have it.