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need to kill flatworms? jen_designs 04-04-2005
Posted by on April 4, 2005, 11:40 am
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I discovered that I have flatworms in my tank:

http://www.jendesigns.us/images/creature.jpg

I have several pieces of coral. Are these types of flatworms harmful
to reefs? I have gotten conflicting advice. The guy at my local
marine store said they are harmful to reefs and suggested that I use
flatworm exit. I am reluctant to use such a product in my tank.

Several other people said that they are not harmful:

http://melevsreef.com/id/clear_flatworm.html

Has anyone had these types of flatworms with a reef. Is so what did
you do?

Thanks

Jen


Posted by Mark C. on April 4, 2005, 12:40 pm
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These little guys are harmless so leave them alone. The ones you have to
worry about are brownish and only if they have a population explosion
brought on by poor water quality.

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Mark
--
I was thinking of the immortal words of Socrates who once said, "I drank
what?".





>I discovered that I have flatworms in my tank:
>
> http://www.jendesigns.us/images/creature.jpg
>
> I have several pieces of coral. Are these types of flatworms harmful
> to reefs? I have gotten conflicting advice. The guy at my local
> marine store said they are harmful to reefs and suggested that I use
> flatworm exit. I am reluctant to use such a product in my tank.
>
> Several other people said that they are not harmful:
>
> http://melevsreef.com/id/clear_flatworm.html
>
> Has anyone had these types of flatworms with a reef. Is so what did
> you do?
>
> Thanks
>
> Jen
>



Posted by Marc Levenson on April 6, 2005, 5:26 am
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Correct. If you have 'red planaria' then you need to treat
your tank with a product called Flatworm eXit by Salifert.

http://melevsreef.com/id/flatworms.html
http://www.melevsreef.com/flatworms.html

Marc


Mark C. wrote:

> These little guys are harmless so leave them alone. The ones you have to
> worry about are brownish and only if they have a population explosion
> brought on by poor water quality.
>

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Posted by Pete on April 7, 2005, 12:48 pm
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Well I did have those but I had a marine betta which did not eat for 2 years
then I relised it was eating and not flat worms imagine that but they also
recomend arrow crabs as flat worms are its stapple diet

Pete



> I discovered that I have flatworms in my tank:
>
> http://www.jendesigns.us/images/creature.jpg
>
> I have several pieces of coral. Are these types of flatworms harmful
> to reefs? I have gotten conflicting advice. The guy at my local
> marine store said they are harmful to reefs and suggested that I use
> flatworm exit. I am reluctant to use such a product in my tank.
>
> Several other people said that they are not harmful:
>
> http://melevsreef.com/id/clear_flatworm.html
>
> Has anyone had these types of flatworms with a reef. Is so what did
> you do?
>
> Thanks
>
> Jen
>



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