Flatworm - Acoel Planaria - Page 4

JaxReef · 03-01-2007, 12:03 AM

also look for bite marks, little circles on the sps tissue. The worms are clear and are hard if impossible to see

mrsjow2be · 03-08-2007, 10:51 PM

erk! are flats bad? LoL imma newbie to the world of SW. I have a 55 gal with a couple damsels, a clown, an anemone, 2 cleaners and a handful each of snails and blue/red hermet crabs. recently noticed some self-diagnosed spaggethi(sp) works and theres these guys on my glass today when I got home from work... *sad face* are they like... horrible gonna overpopulate n kill everything? Suggestions... pwease!

JaxReef · 03-17-2007, 12:01 AM

AEFW are bad if you keep acros. The regular flatworms are only an eye sore in large populations

Dentoid · 03-17-2007, 12:15 AM

Hope you get those little boogers!

saltwaterfarm · 03-17-2007, 12:15 AM

Had flatworms once in my little 3 gallon. Flatworm Exit by Salifert is DA BOMB!

sgoble · 05-09-2007, 10:37 AM

Good Morning all - really sorry to hear about this. I battled flatworms for about 6 months trying to get them out myself without having to add the flatworm exit. Well I was unsuccessful. My advise would be to try to syphon as many out as you can. If you are not successful doing this get the flat worm exit asap. The exit itself is not harmful to your tank and the fish it is the toxins the flatworm create when they die - so your chances of everything going ok with the exit is better when the number of flatworms is less. I tried to no avail to get them out myself. They multiply quickly. I lost a yellow tang and really though I was going to lose a royal gramma but thankfully he pulled through. My mushroom were a little burnt looking but after about a week perked up and are doing fine. Hope all goes well for you - good luck!

Woodstock · 05-09-2007, 10:41 AM

Thanks for sharing your experience. I am very glad to say that I have been flatworm FREE since I treated with Flatworm Exit.

CATALYST · 05-09-2007, 01:09 PM

I just used this yesterday. Seemed to work pretty well. I didn't do the double dose. There were the yellow colored ones and some of the clear ones came out that I didn't know I had. I did it in the morning, sucked the ones I could see out, and did a water change later in the day. I haven't seen any again...so far.

Wooden Harpoon · 05-11-2007, 10:40 AM

What is that. I would freak out if I saw those things in my tank. (Disregard this message. I don't want you to worry!)

vdituri · 05-11-2007, 11:19 AM

Here is a link to some natural worm-i-vores.
My local pet stores just started getting the black one with the neon blue racing stripes. I wanted it soo bad, but they said it ate flatworms and would only live about 3 months without them. (finally someone warns me before I do something stupid)
Can you mail me some flatworms so I can get one?

Predators

flricordia · 08-06-2007, 07:19 PM

in a 240 I am maintaining they were in the thousands. I tryed the exit but they came back in high #'s. I described them to a LRS owner who also has the same kind in some of his tanks and he said to let them run their coarse. I left them alone and now they are dissapearing. It has been about 2-3 months now. They ar ethe brown kind. I never saw them on any of the corals, just chocking out the LR and sand.
I also noticed them in another LRS where the tanks are acryilc in-line set-up. Theya ll mass in one tank at the end. She leaves them there so as to feed any target mandarins she gets.
Don't figure. I think they are unsightly and a pest, but I guess it depends on the species of flatworm whether they are harmful or not.
A while back I had success with a 6=line wrass when I had some flat-worms showing up in a nano. The fish took care of them, but also all the pods small snails and chitons, which I like having around.

wobbegong06 · 10-18-2007, 01:17 PM

careful with the flatworm eXit. its great stuff, but try to syphon out as many worms as possible. because when they die they release toxins which could hurt you fish and inverts. i use an airline and a rigid tube for a worm syphon, works great! after getting as many out as possible, then use the flatworm eXit.

Craig Manoukian · 10-18-2007, 09:37 PM

Great suggestion wobbegong!

kathywithbirds · 10-18-2007, 11:06 PM

look up melevsreef.com. He gets 'em out with a siphon, as many as possible, then adds the flatworm exit, then siphons again, then does the exit again and then a water change.

We got some in Mike's tank, they're on their way out.

edit: oh and adds CARBON in case there are any he doesn't get when they die... when they die they release a toxin.

fish wilson · 11-01-2007, 12:03 PM

a melanuras wrasse will gobble them up most wrasses love them. so do lettuce nudis

03-01-2007, 12:03 AM	#46 (permalink)
JaxReef Pistol Shrimp Join Date: Aug 2006 Posts: 249 View Gallery Karma Komment	Re: Flatworm - Acoel Planaria also look for bite marks, little circles on the sps tissue. The worms are clear and are hard if impossible to see

03-08-2007, 10:51 PM	#47 (permalink)
mrsjow2be Tunicate Join Date: Mar 2007 Posts: 6 View Gallery Karma Komment	Re: Flatworm - Acoel Planaria erk! are flats bad? LoL imma newbie to the world of SW. I have a 55 gal with a couple damsels, a clown, an anemone, 2 cleaners and a handful each of snails and blue/red hermet crabs. recently noticed some self-diagnosed spaggethi(sp) works and theres these guys on my glass today when I got home from work... sad face are they like... horrible gonna overpopulate n kill everything? Suggestions... pwease!

03-17-2007, 12:01 AM	#48 (permalink)
JaxReef Pistol Shrimp Join Date: Aug 2006 Posts: 249 View Gallery Karma Komment	Re: Flatworm - Acoel Planaria AEFW are bad if you keep acros. The regular flatworms are only an eye sore in large populations

03-17-2007, 12:15 AM	#49 (permalink)
Dentoid Over Achiever Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Virginia Posts: 9,594 View Gallery Karma Komment	Re: Flatworm - Acoel Planaria Hope you get those little boogers! __________________ Scott Dentoid's Reeforama

03-17-2007, 12:15 AM	#50 (permalink)
saltwaterfarm Manta Ray Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Maryland Posts: 3,222 View Gallery Karma Komment Add yours!	Re: Flatworm - Acoel Planaria Had flatworms once in my little 3 gallon. Flatworm Exit by Salifert is DA BOMB! __________________ Lisa 90 Gal AGA, DIY Sump/Fuge, Current Outer Orbit 250w MH's with T5's. AquaC Remora Pro Skimmer, RK2.[/font] Purple LTA, pair of Percula Clowns, Clams, Softies, Shrooms, Ricordea, Echinophyllia, Torch, Frogspawn, Blastos, Sponges, Acro, Wellso, the NEW Zoa Mountain, and some more stuff... 3 Gal Sexy Shrimp Pico. 29 Gal Oceanic BioCube, Current Sunpod 150w MH.

05-09-2007, 10:37 AM	#51 (permalink)
sgoble Tunicate Join Date: May 2007 Posts: 5 View Gallery Karma Komment	Re: Flatworm - Acoel Planaria Good Morning all - really sorry to hear about this. I battled flatworms for about 6 months trying to get them out myself without having to add the flatworm exit. Well I was unsuccessful. My advise would be to try to syphon as many out as you can. If you are not successful doing this get the flat worm exit asap. The exit itself is not harmful to your tank and the fish it is the toxins the flatworm create when they die - so your chances of everything going ok with the exit is better when the number of flatworms is less. I tried to no avail to get them out myself. They multiply quickly. I lost a yellow tang and really though I was going to lose a royal gramma but thankfully he pulled through. My mushroom were a little burnt looking but after about a week perked up and are doing fine. Hope all goes well for you - good luck!

05-09-2007, 10:41 AM	#52 (permalink)
Woodstock The Wand Geek was here. ;) Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: North Carolina Posts: 21,676 View Gallery Karma Komment Add yours!	Re: Flatworm - Acoel Planaria Thanks for sharing your experience. I am very glad to say that I have been flatworm FREE since I treated with Flatworm Exit. __________________ ~Doni Marie~ *GOT ICH???* ~120 Reef Chronicle ~ *~29 gal QT/Hospital tank~* *~3 gal Pico~* "Energy and persistence conquer all things." Benjamin Franklin __________________________________________________ ______________________________________________ 120 mixed reef, dual Reeflux 10k 250 MH, dual Actinic t5s,AquaController III, ASM g3, 2x Korallia #3, Mag 9.5 return

05-09-2007, 01:09 PM	#53 (permalink)
CATALYST Achilles Tang Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: SoCal Posts: 835 View Gallery Karma Komment	Re: Flatworm - Acoel Planaria I just used this yesterday. Seemed to work pretty well. I didn't do the double dose. There were the yellow colored ones and some of the clear ones came out that I didn't know I had. I did it in the morning, sucked the ones I could see out, and did a water change later in the day. I haven't seen any again...so far.

05-11-2007, 10:40 AM	#54 (permalink)
Wooden Harpoon Star Polyps Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Maryland Posts: 171 View Gallery Karma Komment	Re: Flatworm - Acoel Planaria What is that. I would freak out if I saw those things in my tank. (Disregard this message. I don't want you to worry!) __________________ The more I see the less I know! Back and more humbled about the world of reef keeping. Last edited by Craig Manoukian : 05-12-2007 at 03:32 AM.

08-06-2007, 07:19 PM	#56 (permalink)
flricordia Just Mike for short Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Pensacola FL Posts: 595 View Gallery Karma Komment	Re: Flatworm - Acoel Planaria in a 240 I am maintaining they were in the thousands. I tryed the exit but they came back in high #'s. I described them to a LRS owner who also has the same kind in some of his tanks and he said to let them run their coarse. I left them alone and now they are dissapearing. It has been about 2-3 months now. They ar ethe brown kind. I never saw them on any of the corals, just chocking out the LR and sand. I also noticed them in another LRS where the tanks are acryilc in-line set-up. Theya ll mass in one tank at the end. She leaves them there so as to feed any target mandarins she gets. Don't figure. I think they are unsightly and a pest, but I guess it depends on the species of flatworm whether they are harmful or not. A while back I had success with a 6=line wrass when I had some flat-worms showing up in a nano. The fish took care of them, but also all the pods small snails and chitons, which I like having around.

10-18-2007, 01:17 PM	#57 (permalink)
wobbegong06 Tunicate Join Date: Oct 2007 Posts: 9 View Gallery Karma Komment	Re: Flatworm - Acoel Planaria careful with the flatworm eXit. its great stuff, but try to syphon out as many worms as possible. because when they die they release toxins which could hurt you fish and inverts. i use an airline and a rigid tube for a worm syphon, works great! after getting as many out as possible, then use the flatworm eXit.

10-18-2007, 09:37 PM	#58 (permalink)
Craig Manoukian Regular Guy Moderator Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Marina Del Ray, CA Posts: 15,744 View Gallery Karma Komment Add yours!	Re: Flatworm - Acoel Planaria Great suggestion wobbegong! __________________ Currently tankless. 20 Gallon mini reef with mated pair of Maroon Clowns given to Rougiem! 80 gallon reef given to Rougiem/Wooster HS.

10-18-2007, 11:06 PM	#59 (permalink)
kathywithbirds You talkin ta ME? Join Date: May 2007 Location: Philly area, NJ Posts: 4,932 View Gallery Karma Komment	Re: Flatworm - Acoel Planaria look up melevsreef.com. He gets 'em out with a siphon, as many as possible, then adds the flatworm exit, then siphons again, then does the exit again and then a water change. We got some in Mike's tank, they're on their way out. edit: oh and adds CARBON in case there are any he doesn't get when they die... when they die they release a toxin. __________________ (\__/) (\__/) (@.@) (^.^) (")_(") (< >)

11-01-2007, 12:03 PM	#60 (permalink)
fish wilson Fire Coral Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: fordland. mo Posts: 78 View Gallery Karma Komment Add yours!	Re: Flatworm - Acoel Planaria a melanuras wrasse will gobble them up most wrasses love them. so do lettuce nudis

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