Tiny Orange Snails/Bugs?

[spjeff69]

Does anyone have any experience with tiny orange snails or bugs? I noticed they were moving today, much like a snail. They are the size of a pencil tip.


Thanks

 

[luckyfish]

Pics? How orange? do they look snail like or worm like?

 

[spjeff69]

They like a flat worm almost. I'll get a pic up soon.

 

[spjeff69]

This is the best I could do. I could not get the camera to focus well.

 

[commonstranger]

Not for sure about the snail/worm. How is your algae problem doing ?

 

[fishdoc11]

Looks like planaria....... run of the mill flatworms.

 

[NeveSSL]

I was going to say flatworms as well.

There's always FlatWorm Exit from Salifert.

Also, rumors are that some peppermint shrimp and sometimes canary wrasses will eat them.

Brandon

 

[ReefingMadness]

I had a 40B that had them. Like Brandon said, canary wrasse ( yellow corris wrasse) ravaged them. I still have the FlatWorm Exit in my drawer. If that is the route you want to go let me know.

 

[spjeff69]

Thanks for the help guys. I'm working on the algae problem as we speak. I just received my clean up crew shipment from LiveAquaria.com.

Everyone looks pretty busy!

 

[CoralJunkieXXX]

If they are the small red planaria, the FWE usually doesn't work on them.

I tried a triple dose and nothing!

I ended up buying a velvet nudi from LA and it took care of them in no time.

Make sure you keep up on your maintenance!

 

[Angela Short]

I have had a few mandarins eat them also if your tank is big enouph to feed him and also be careful with FWE. I know people can nuke there tank with it and kill everything. I had them in a 5 gallon and as they died off from the FWE I had a air line tube and sucked them out by the gob before they nuked the tank with there dead juice! A air tube works great since it pulls the FW's but not much water just be cAreful not to stop it up with rocks and sand.

 

[spjeff69]

Unfortunately, my tank is only 24 gallons. Though, I have plenty of pods, I'm not sure that I would be able to sustain the population with a mandarin in there.

 

[luckyfish]

I had them BAAAAD and I agree with what folks are saying; I think Flat Worm Exit is more trouble than it's worth. I got a yellow corris wrasse and a scooter blenny, both of which will eat them. It was interesting to watch. At first I did not think they were working but then after about a week small sections of rock would be clear of them and then it was like a wave across the tank. This was probably 6 months ago and both fish are still doing fine. With the size of your tank you may want to consider a small scooter.

 

[Turtle77]

How do you get those, are they just hitchhikers or are they int he sand?

 

[luckyfish]

Most often on rock from a tank that has falt worms.

 

[Highside]

Pull one small rock out of the water and dip it in fresh water. They will all fall off. If it is the most foul smell you can imagine then you have flatworms. Lots of reading on RC about it but I would say just dont use flat worm exit untill you have almost all of them gone. there will be 50 for every one you see.

 

[spjeff69]

They are definitely flatworms. Here is a picture, borrowed from Melevsreef.com/id

I'm really considering the scooter blenny or the mandarin, has anyone else had any success with either of these?

Jeff