red planaria eater?

[hobogato]

ended up with these in zach's 29 gallon, so i need to get a small fish to eat em. i know some have had success with sixline wrasses, but was wondering if there were other options?

[Mike]

Would some other small wrasse work? Coris maybe, and then when he cleans them out and outgrows the 29g, he could go in the big tank...

[hobogato]

maybe, besides a yellow coris, what did you have in mind?

[Troy Valentine]

I have personally had great success with Melanurus wrasses. I have had 2 different tanks with severe flatworm problems, and these wrasses did the trick with both of them. It didn't happen over night it took about 6 months or so.

[ErikH]

My melanarus hasn't done too much for me, but I feed it too much ;)

I am about to purchase all new rock and just start all over again.

FWExit works like a champion, maybe you could just remove the fish and nuke it, then add water from a WC on the big tank? I also have 2 fat sixlines, but haven't seen them eat the RP....

[alton]

Green Mandarin

[hobogato]

never knew that! that may be a good choice...


Green Mandarin

[Big_Pun]

Gabe has told me the same thing that mandarins eat flat worms, i guess thats why i never got the flat worm problem when alot of LFS had them. i have a large green mandarin and a yellow coris

[allan]

I've got a fat green mandarin that I've never seen eat prepared food. I've had him now a year and a few months. I've got no flatworms in my display tank.

I have a sixline as well, but he spends most of his time in the sump.