What fish/ invert will eat flatworm

[AquariumService]

I have a pink flat worm spreading in a reef tank.

I had flat worm years ago in another tank and I remember adding a 6 line wrasse, mandarin goby and maybe something else that ate the flat worm. No medicine used. This tank already has these two fish.....Any other flatworm eaters?

 

[risika67]

My mandarin ate mine when I got a piece of coral that had flatworms. That isn't the standard though. I think the general input will be to use flatworm exit. Sorry

 

[olemiss reb]

velvet nudibranch- they eat flatworms and nothing else

 

[Rockys_Pride]

A sixline will tear them up, so will a melanarus.

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[pledosophy]

I have not had luck with a 6 line myself, but a Coris wrasse did wonders for me.

 

[Sugar Magnolia]

My six line doesn't touch my flatworms. Melanarus or yellow coris wrasse are your best bet.

 

[cside]

dont get a six line. these are nasty and only certain individuals will eat fw's. how big and infested is the tank? melanurus and yellow coris can be great tankmates if you have room.

 

[Crkbaby]

I was told arrow crabs eat bristle worms unsure about flat worms though

 

[AquariumService]

There are already a six line w and a green mandarin that aren't helping with the issue. This client has been asking for an arrow crab, so it won't hurt to try that, along with a Corris Wrasse. ANd if I can find a velvet nudi i'll try that too.
Thanks . I'll let you know how it goes

 

[israel.kendall]

+5 on melanarus wrasse, its a beautiful fish as well.

 

[Spartanman22]

I had an AEFW problem and when I would bast my perculas would go nuts for the floating flatworms

 

[ibefishy]

I agree with the Melanarus Wrasse. A great fish, constantly out swimming around and at night buries itself in the sand.

 

[walkerbrody]

a friend of mine had a leopard wrasse that did a great job.

 

[pmrossetti]

will those wrasses bother cleaner shrimp? hermits,snails?

 

[Rockys_Pride]

Nope, all said wrasse are reef safe. My sixline is a jerk to my other wrasse, actually he killed them. Shame on me for recommending them. I had a melanarus, but he was a rock flipper. The hardest part of a leopard wrasse is keeping it alive. Read the leopard wrasse primer on here if you don't believe me.

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[walkerbrody]

My friends leopard wrasse is no longer with us. I haven't read the primer, but I agree with the difficulty.

 

[jackmulhall]

I had a flat worm problem and tried a yellow "coris" wrasse and an arrow crab but neither touched the flatworms. Everyone says it depends on the individual fish whether it will eat them but I just settled on flatworm exit and it took care of the problem. Otherwise try a blue velvet nudribranch but its comes out to be more expensive than flatworm exit and will die once it cannot find anymore flatworms.

 

[Algaenot]

I haven't had any luck with mandrins or six-lines. Might try the velvet nudribranch.

 

[huckphinn894]

I had a beautiful coris wrass in my tank and developed a bad algae problem so I added more crabs and snails and more crabs and more snail until I took out every rock I had sifted my sand and finally got my coris wrass out of my tank and made it my friends problem. I no longer have an algae problem. the wrass also eat almost all of my bristle worms

 

[frankpayne32]

dont get a six line. these are nasty and only certain individuals will eat fw's. how big and infested is the tank? melanurus and yellow coris can be great tankmates if you have room.

True, but only certain individuals are nasty. I've had three in different tanks and none were aggressive and all three ate flatworms. It all depends on the individual fish.