flat worms

[Gator]

what do flat worms look like i just got home today and found a worm looking thing crawling on my glass thay look flat with clear to yellow bodies with a red or brown head i caught it and took it out. i have never seen anything like this before in my tqank. the only new thing is a clam my mom and dad baught me could something of come in on it

thanks i have it in a glass it keeps crawling on the side of the cup

thanks gator

[Instar]

Flatworms can be different colors. The ones everyone wants to get rid of are the ones that can easily be seen. They are dark red to dark orange. Really a planaria worm. The clear ones are dangerous to corals. Flatworms really don't look much like worms as they are flat, short and the head is kind of larger than the body. They can have split tails. Sounds like you got a flat worm. They are potential hitchhikers with all kinds of things, on rocks, on clams, inside a colony of polyps, etc.

[::pete::]

FYI ... maybe these will help

[witecap4u]

I've been kinda wondering this myself. I have some kind of tube worm(I would assume) with a reddish brown tube and it has a little strand that comes out to catch microparticles out of the water column. They dont seem to bother the corals much, if at all, unless one grows on one(sps only) and its only that one spot(I actually have a frag encrusting over the tube)

Any Ideas....

BTW, sorry for the thread hi-jack, but its along the same lines I guess

[bozack]

I had the exact same question.
My wife was looking in my tank yesterday nd saw some small worms crawling around on the back glass. Mine are not red or brown though. They are whitish in color and only about a quarter of an inch long.

Trying to figure out what they are and if I need to get rid of them.

[Sunhutch]

I too had this same question/problem. But thanks to the MAAST site (searching through the archives) my questions have been answered. The pictures were especially helpful. Thanks MAAST!

[lax]

so are the red/orange ones bad?

[Gator]

what fish store i want to know what i have. i think the clam that i got had the flatworms becasue i have never seen them before, what is a good wrasse that is reef safe, are the fairy wrasse any good

[lax]

so what's the verdict on if the red ones being bad, yes/no?

[lax]

what is a good way to get rid of them, besides some kind of med.?