my tang has some sort of flat worm on it.

[sammoorefield]

I think 3 total are residing on my tang. One on the upper fin and 2 on the body. They look grey in color and appear to be feeding off the fish. I looked in the disease forum but found nothing about this type of parasite. Its irritating the fish too, it is twitching trying to shake it off.

Anything i can do to remedy it w/out removing it from the tank? Its in a reef tank.

will a cleaner wrasse take care of it?

[nava405]

how big is the flat worm things ?

i think fresh water dip should work really good, i seem a LFS done it, and only took 1 min for all the grey spot came off the body

[sammoorefield]

I will do that. I actually just caught the fish using my lights out method. I think I read 5 min fw dip is what is recommended? Or should i just do a ultra low salinity dip?

[mangus7175]

Dipping will help if it is flatworms but I would imagine you might need some baking soda added in the freshwater to raise pH. Am I right?

[slavearm]

Make sure the PH is at least close, and that the water temp is the same before dipping the fish.

[sammoorefield]

Ok, I did a 5 min fw dip. The fish had a lot more parasites than what I could see originally. They all simply fell off the fish. I placed the fish in a bucket of tank water with a couple of drops of that stress coat stuff. I think in 20 min or so it should be ready to go back into the tank.

[sammoorefield]

update

The FW dip worked like a charm! I have one happy fish again :)