Flat worm issue

I have had seeral flat worms in my tank and I am not sure of the cause or how to deal with them. They aren't harming my coral at all.

I just did a complete water change in my tank. I took out all of my rock and corals and placed them in saltwater, vacuumed the sand etc. (not because of the flat worms, it just needed to be done)

When I put the rocks back into the tank their were no flat worms to be found. A few days later they started popping up again.

What are some ways of dealing with these guys?

Thanks.

 

get some salifert flat worn exit and treat the tank and follow the directions .the sooner tank is treated better and safer it is they multiply like rats and the more you kill off then more toxins there will be to deal with .They won't go away on their own.

 

Tangster is spot on – they will not go away on their own and will multiply like rabbits on holiday. Saliferts flat worm exit works very well – as suggested follow the directions, and attempt to siphon out as many as you can prior to treating as the toxin mentioned in the directions is rather serious business. Good luck !

 

FlatwormXit should work to help clear it up. I dip all my new corals in an iodine bath like Tropic Marin Pro Coral Cure before introducing them into my tank. Understandably I get a bit paranoid about introducing things like flatworms into my display tanks. Besides preventing flatworms, I also believe that dipping a new coral in an iodine solution helps it recover from the stress of transport and reduces the chance of microbial/bacterial infection on the new coral.

 

wormtrap

 

i had a problem with flat worms as well awhile back and used salifert flatworm exit..... i learned for it to work you have to double the treatment..... it did not harm anything in the tank...... i used a canister filter with lots of charcole and sucked out the flatworms that died off..... then i treated again 1 week later...now they are completely gone..... flat worms will not harm your corals... they just feed off of the slime that soft corals give off and the flatworms become unsightly...... just watch if you have alot of them they will give off a toxin when the die and pollute the tank.....