Flatworms

[jrodriguez]

any idea how to get rid of flatworms?

[Mr Cob]

Go to Melev's reef...

http://www.melevsreef.com/aefw.html

He has some nice articles on this.

[Texreefer]

what kind of FW

[ACE]

Are they brown?

[jrodriguez]

yes we have come to the conclusion that they are brown flat worms and we discovered that we saw the babies on the glass. brown as well as a clearish white one. which we read were good is that right. i just know that the brown ones are a pain in the but i managed to get two full grown ones out and that was what we went by to figure out what it was. he was able to eat a royal gramma, lawnmover blenny, madarin goby and a cleaner wrasse until we found out wht it was and finally got him out. now we are trying to avoid this from happening again. and maybe get rid of them

[Texreefer]

umm,, if you have a worm thats eating your fish, its probably not a flatworm

[Mr Cob]

you should post some pics, it sounds like you have a couple of things going on... or use GOOGLE (images) to help ID what you have.

[jrodriguez]

This actually fish stopped turning up dead about two months ago. since we pulled them out we hadnt seen one until about two months or so later which was two nights ago. that was when we started the search online a had to use a magnifed class too look at it carefully. we saw the little clear ones and thought they were bad too but when we saw that they eat the brown ones i see them right know as im typing this and the little ones that i thought were brown are clear but their bellies are brown from eating the little brown ones. like what we looked up online. i will try to get you the most exact and best pic i can. JRod

[jrodriguez]

http://www.melevsreef.com/pics/06/08/aefw.jpg


this is exactly what we pulled out two months ago and the same one we saw two nights ago but as i keep seeing the pics of the small ones they are not even close in color the only little ones we have visible to us are clearish white.:confused: this happened in our 29g and we are having this trouble with our 55g which has a piece of live rock that was switched from the 29g.

[aggman]

won't some of the halichoeres species of wrasse feed on flatworms. i know the hoeven's wrasse does for sure and they are reef-safe. i'm not a know-it-all by any means, i have just been looking into getting this fish for my tank and have done a little research on it.

~alex