The war with the flatworms

[TotalVapor]

I am a little confused on this thread, are we talking about real flat worms or red planaria?

red planaria is not a flat worm but you can use Flat worm exit to kill them off. Suck out as much as you can and turn off the air to your skimmer. Double the dose of the Flatworm Exit and do a nice water change as directed. If I remember right it is to be a 20% or or 40%. Follow up for with 20% a day until you can turn your skimmer on without it freaking out. They do not like high flow that is why most of the time they cling to the bottom of the rocks and work their way up.

If you have a mech filter or a sock filter that can catch them it will help reduce them if you have high flow. Continue this until you no longer see in the tank or in the filter.

 

[jrgilles]

I ended up having to use a triple dose of FE to get rid of mine, but they are all gone. Only had them in my 20 g fuge though.

Sounds like the ones you have might have picked up some resistance to FE. You might want to put some of them in a half gallon jug or something (of salt water) and measure in FE and determine what dose is needed to kill them. What finally got mine out was a dose 3X the recommended, but was pushing toxic levels.

rob

 

[blennielove]

Greetings,
I too had suffered from overwhelming number of flat worms in my nano tank. I've bought a Mandarin Goby to help me rid them, but the Goby is an adorable animal who quickly learned that all the food I put in my tank were much more palatable than the flat worms. I've bought Flatwarm Exit, kept on hand, in case the day I really felt that my tank was being suffocated but luckily, I never had to use it. I read a lot about flat worms and focused on what they eat...I leanred that one of its favorite is rotifers. So, I stopped feeding my tank rotifers and within two weeks, they were completely gone. It has been two years since and no flat worms.
Look into what you are feeding and see if you are giving the tank extra nutrients and remember, as with all marine systems, we are trying to find that balance that is so easily done in nature.
Best wishes,
Blennie

 

[returnofsid]

I am a little confused on this thread, are we talking about real flat worms or red planaria?

red planaria is not a flat worm.....

I'm a little confused by your statement.

Red Planaria (Convolutriloba retrogemma) IS an acoelous turbellarian flatworm. Keyword being Acoela

http://reefkeeping.com/joomla/index...latworms-and-other-bugs-that-make-you-see-red
http://www.seaslugforum.net/message/5836
http://www.springerlink.com/content/x188281q04m12663/
http://zipcodezoo.com/Animals/C/Convolutriloba_retrogemma/

 

[iroll253]

Deffinetly what i had. Dropped a k3 in my tank and gone!

 

[Redseadan74]

I had flat worms all over my mushrooms and I have a spotted Mandarin and he's been eating them or grazing on them for about a month and I have not seen any sence, I have not treated with anything.

 

[dsa303]

Nice my scooter solved my problem, and he's so cute!