Can Anyone Id.flatworm. Picture!!

briang · Mar 25, 2008

Can anyone ID. this flatworm? I have seen 4 of them in the last 2 weeks. All at night on my glass except this one I saw in daylight. I'm so ticked, Just as I was squeezing off for another shot, my talbot's damsel picked it off the glass and I missed the shot by a millisecond. I almost had a shot magazine worthy

I haven't added anything in quite a while so I probably just didn't notice them. They have a very smooth back so I don't think it's a nudi. It is less than 1/4 inch.

Boomer · Mar 25, 2008

You can not tell form a ventral pic, need a good dorsal pic

But a wild guess of the family is Leptoplanidae.

Go look here

Marine Flatworms of the World
http://www.rzuser.uni-heidelberg.de/~bu6/index.html

Marine Flatworms of the World in pdf's
http://www.rzuser.uni-heidelberg.de/~bu6/flatintr.htm#feeding

briang · Mar 25, 2008

Boomer · Mar 25, 2008

That does not help, need to see the top side of the worm

briang · Mar 25, 2008

Boomer said:
That does not help, need to see the top side of the worm

That is his topside, He's very small and thin

Boomer · Mar 25, 2008

Silly me I was looking at the big blob :lol:

It is still to small but still looks as I stated above. I'm going by its size, its shape and those two "dots" on its head by the "4" in the pic. To get a better ID the pic will have to have the worm ~ 2 in. long or so and be a clear focused pic. The size of the blob would be perfect :lol:

briang · Mar 25, 2008

I don't see it hurting anything. I have alot of monties andleathers and lps.If it does turn out to be a harmfull thing,how do I get rid of it without hurting coco worms and other stuff?