Answered Brown flat worm

I saw this in the fuge a few moments ago and cant decide what type of flat worm it is? so any help is greatly appreciated. this is a pice of acrlyic in the sump to help with bubles and to see what type of critters I collected. also this picture was taken out side of the water and these things were still moving really well. it was about 1mm in size and about 2 mm long. none found in the DT yet or as far as i can tell I think that has to do with the two wrasses though is they did make it into the tank.

TYIA

 

They looks like Red Planaria.


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that looks like it but here are some better pics to confirm that. MAN that ticks me off aptasia now these little @$$E$

 

also any thought on what to do?

 

Well those do not look red.

Some flatworms are not as problematic as Red Planaria.

Take a look at Renee's site, it does a much better job of ID'ing FW.

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acoel flat worm brown flatworm? seems to look the part the best

 

I agree.

Their populations can be very self limiting.

Some fish will eat them, wrasses, damsels......you may need to not feed for more than a couple days and blow the FW off the surfaces for the fish to see and get the idea.

I would count myself lucky if I were you.

 

agreed it seems like the brown ones but that only good part is that they are in the fuge

EDIT: heres more info for future help to anyone who looks at this post.

 

If you do not have to, I would not use it. It is a pain to use and toxic to many inverts.

Some FW are capable of photosynthesis, not sure if the ones you have are. So perhaps you want to cut back on the light in the fuge and see if that makes a difference.

 

LOL thanks corailline I will drop the photo period back fo a day or two and see if it helps.

and I will manually suck these llittle.......out of the tank ;D