flatworms????

[robertgangly]

hey does anyone know the best way to get rid of flatworms is ??? i have a bottle of flatworm exit but i am worried about the corals any other suggestions??? thanks

[MBX5]

flatworm exit should not do anything to your corals as far as I know. Some wrasses will eat them.

[artful-dodger]

I agree with going for the wrasse before anything chemical. 6-lines can be a bit pugnacious to anybody near their size added after they've made a home, but they do a great job of nibbling anything small and live (including a pod population...)

[tankfly]

I have used flatworm exit several times with no problems. I had a 55 gal that I had to treat 3 times before eliminating them. On the first treatment I had a starfish to die. So based on that I think only starfish may be affected. I saw no effect on any corals or fish.

[fishfanatic06]

I just treated with flatworm exit last night it worked great! They came crawling out of everywhere. No corals or fish were affected. I did not have them in large numbers though. A sixline wrasse will eat the flatworms, but you have to starve him if you want him to eat the flatworms.

[tkeracer619]

i did it last week. My tank looks great, no harm other than flatworms. I got extra flatworm exit for dipping corals as they come in.

[Clown-N-Around]

I have used flatworm exit with good success also. I always did it at the first sign of any worms, so I did not see significant impact. The only time I have heard of issues is when there were massive numbers of flatworms and it was the dying flatworms releasing the toxins that irritated the livestock. If you have a lot of flatworms (like whole rocks or sandbed covered) I would be prepared with a massive waterchange folowing treatment.

Good luck! Keep us posted.

[alkoenig]

I think I just had an outbreak myself. I saw some red dots on the glass, thinking it was coraline algae, and started cleaning, but it wasn't coraline, it came off too easy, and they appeared to be moving! I have no idea what flatworms look like, but they are very flat, and pretty small. I started looking around, and they were all over the place.

I think it's time for some intervention.

[tkeracer619]

I had tons of them.......... I vacuumed them out via plastic tubing, airline works great to get the stragglers but a slightly larger size will help when getting clumps of them.............

I used about 20 gallons for top off after vacuuming them out and another 40 gallon after the fact to suck the dead ones and do a large water change.

I also ran 4lbs of carbon. Just make sure to follow the directions.

It was a long nasty process but none of my livestock suffered.

[robertgangly]

well i did it last night and my whole tank turned red i had a lot of them i put nylons on my overflow outlets to catch the dead ones and also used nylons on the end of air line so i could put the water back in the tank while i still had dead ones comming out then fallowed with a 100 gal water change hopfully my corals quit dying now dr f&s said that if there was a lot of them they could irratate the corals enough to kill them and i had a ton of them thanks to all for the help

[kiznile]

WHAT DO FLAT WORMS LOOK LIKE

[tkeracer619]

they look like slices of bread. Red in color and range in size from the size of a pin head to about a small pea size.

They are very thin

[Hammbone]

Not all are red. Mine are green.

Jim

[kiznile]

any one know a lfs that carries flatworm exit