Flatworms HELP!!!!!!!!!!

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Dan_Hanson

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:newbie: I need some help about flatworms, did a 20% water change yesterday and low and behold the little clear white devils showed up. So I went to my fish store and they sold me Flatworm eXit made by Salefert. Treated my tank did the 25% water change. Got up this morning and there they are all over the glass. I'm doing another treatment as I'm doing this. Is there anything else I can do other then setting up a hospital tank and purging this one. Help:WHOA:
 
Well the flatworm med should help... you mite also want to try syphoning out as many as you can or their deaths will cause an ammonia spike. I would also try to not over feed and do plenty of water changes for the short term as their population will drop with less nutrients in the system. If the population stays high, then you may have to bleach the liverock and start over, but that is a last resort.
 
Kevin8888;3911768;3911768 said:
Well the flatworm med should help... you mite also want to try syphoning out as many as you can or their deaths will cause an ammonia spike. I would also try to not over feed and do plenty of water changes for the short term as their population will drop with less nutrients in the system. If the population stays high, then you may have to bleach the liverock and start over, but that is a last resort.
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Would taking the live rock out and cleaning it in RO water then replacing the sand get rid of them. I was also thinking of getting a few pepermint shrimp. I've also read an article about damsels will help. Thanks for the input.
 
Join the club, went from ick to worms. I just read about the wrasses being part or controlling flatworms. I was wrong about the damsels.
 
cleaning them in RO mite help... the low salinity mite kill some (though it mite kill some good hitchhikers as well). As k.tran said if they are clear-clearwhite they are likely not an issue to corals, as it tends to be the coloured ones that feed of corals, so reducing algea should get rid of them more or less. I don't know how sand replacment would change anything even if there were lots in the sand there will still be some deep in the rock. Yes there are fish that will eat them, but they rarely work for large population control, they usualy only do a good job at keeping a small population small.
 
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