Is there a predator for Flatworms?

[basssnake]

Is there any predators for flatworms?? I have a flatworm problem in my reef tank and they are getting on my corals.

Help.........thanks

[kar93]

mandarins will eat them but if the tanks not mature enough then once they are gone he will starve.

[mfinn]

I think it depends on what kind of or color of the flatworms.
I had a small out break of the transparent green ones and added a six line wrasse that took care of the problem.

[MrRyanT]

I second the six line wrasse.

[Slice of Ocean]

My sixline wrasse also eats them.

[basssnake]

These are kind of a brownish redish color and smaller than a pencil eraser. The tank is been setup for two years in my home and i bought it and moved it when it was already two years old. Well, established. So, a six-line wrasse will eat them? Let me know all the choices for fish i have to eat the flatworms. thanks,

[Pike614]

I just had this issue in a 45g reef I had. Insted of chemical Flatworm-exit, I caught a 6-line wrasse in my 75g reef...put him into the 45g and he's already taken care of about 75% of the flatworms...the reddish ones. I am going to add a scooter blenny too once I catch him!

[snorvich]

Lines wrasses are good for flatworms. They are, however, aggressive and may not be good long term display tank members.

[swimmer]

Blue Velvet Nudibranch

[PiXieCath]

I'm not sure, but I've always heard than the spotted mandarin eat flatworms, but the green mandarin don't...

[bdare]

Don't coral banded shrimp eat them also?

[basssnake]

I am not sure about the coral banded shrimp. I have one in there and still have a problem. So, is the best thing to try a six or four line wrasse????

[klaxan]

I'm having the same question about a predator for flatworms. Any more suggestions?

[basssnake]

I bought a six line wrasse today. I put him in the tank that has the flatworms. He disappeared now, but maybe hiding due to the other fish messing with him. How long does it usually take a newly added six line wrasse to eat the Flatworms??

[weaselslucks]

i'm using something called flatworm control. got it for 20 bucks and the directions say that you can keep skimming and carbon running while using it

[moses13]

Many of the halichoeres wrasses will eat them.

[temec_luver]

my dragonfaced pipefish ate mine

[cateyes]

my red scooter blenny annihilated them!!!!!!

[basssnake]

So, scooter blennies will eat flatworms for sure??? I had a green mandarin goby, but he didn't seem to eat them that i could tell. He ended up dieing due to malnutrition.

[t-bone2]

Originally posted by swimmer
Blue Velvet Nudibranch

mine sucked them up like a vacum cleaner it was wild

[cateyes]

Originally posted by basssnake
So, scooter blennies will eat flatworms for sure???

all i can say is that i have a 55 and a 25 plumbed together and the 25 was loaded with flatworms..
the 55 had a scooter blenny in it for over a year and i never saw a flat worm until the blenny jumped in the overflow. now they are starting to show up in the 55...

i'm pretty sure he at least kept them in check, he was always poking around the rocks and corals...

[xian]

I've heard that yellow-tailed damsels will eat them.

I have a fang blenny that eats them.