lesson learned

[fraser]

Well I learned a good leason on the importance of a quarantine tank I just added flatworms to my tank by adding some new live rock so now I need to rid my tank of these little pests soo wish me luck lol

 

[KBennett]

You didn't do anything wrong.  When adding live rock, you usually want all the good stuff with it.  You take the risk of adding unwanted pests to get the good ones.  I haven't heard of many people quarantining live rock. 

 

[Duke]

flatworms arent all bad, i have seen the odd large planeria down in my sump area and they have never spread or became a pest

 

[fraser]

The large leather in my tank that was on the live rock has a lot of them on it now all I got to do is buy a nudibranch or six line wrasse to get rid of them lol

 

[harleymike]

Flat worm exit works. I have some too. My wrasse's eat most of them.

 

[TORX]

Mine just suddenly died off one day, but also took half my tank with it :/

I recovered with huge ass water changes. Siphon and natural predators are great. I have heard great success stories with Flatworm Exit as well. My suggestion is to be ready to siphon out the dead and do a nice water change right after though just in case.

 

[J_T]

Mine just suddenly died off one day, but also took half my tank with it :/

I recovered with huge ass water changes. Siphon and natural predators are great. I have heard great success stories with Flatworm Exit as well. My suggestion is to be ready to siphon out the dead and do a nice water change right after though just in case.

sounds like the FE instructions

I have had a tank get out of control (and I had too much invested to risk it!) and had to drop a FE nuke. Follow the instructions, and you will be just fine. Make sure you have time to deal with it. It takes a bit of time, and it won't wait for you. If you don't deal with the die off, you risk polluting the tank.

 

[spyd]

I would treat with Flatworm Exit and just be sure to follow the instructions. Definitely have carbon ready to fire on once you start the treatment. A wrasse or 2 will get rid of whatever is remaining or at least keep them in check. Higher flow also prevents them from spreading like wild fire. Aslong as they are not AEFW, they really won't have any affect on your tank though.

 

[Neopimp]

I treated with fe about 4 times.  Almost 100 bucks a time.  I bought a yellow coris wrasse and a six line.  Hard to find them now, still there though


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[Neopimp]

I've resigned myself to having flatworms and aips.  It takes a very diligent person to not pick those guys up swapping frags.  It's also why I don't sell frags


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[spyd]

I agree Neo. Even with dipping corals, etc. it is all ways possible to get flatworms as their eggs can be hidden somewhere, etc.

I dip everything religiously and still ended up with flatworms before.

 

[Neopimp]

exactly.  They are not bad at their core.  they do not eat anything that we care about... as long as they are kept in check they will do no harm. 

That does not apply to AEFW though lol