Flat Worms

Help I am beggining to get flat worms and I dont know what to do other than flat worm exit which I have to pull my fish out and have no place to put them. Any ideas

 

Are they white, a rusty orange color, or are they a different color?

 

A rusty oarnge color. HELP

 

I was reading this on another site on natural way to get rid of flat worms. It may help or may not but here is some of the info. Just some options.

Natural means of control include: Wrasse of the genus Pseudocheilinus, such as the Six Line Wrasse (P. hexataenia), Halichoeres Wrasse, such as Yellow Wrasse (H. chrysus), Macropharyngodon Wrasse such as the numerous Leopard Wrasse (Macropharyngodon sp.), and Dragonets such as the Spotted Mandarin (Synchiropus picturatus). The Blue Velvet Nudibranch (Chelidonura varians) is very effective at consuming flatworms in the aquarium, but is very sensitive to changes in water chemistry and has a short life expectancy in the home aquarium.

 

Get some flatworm exit and be done with them. To many poke around looking for a means of natural control and if it works thats all it is a means of control until there is an explosion then its to many and then the flat work exit creates a problem as then the will make the water toxic if there are to many .. I simple just kill them out .

 

But with flat worm exit I have to pull the fish out right and it is a huge pain in the ass

 

Nope.....just siphon out as many flatworms as you can find prior to dosing. Then make sure you have GOOD aeration while the chemical is working.

 

I agree with tangster, just get it over with. I had them, used flatworm exit and had no problem with any of my fish. Couple of corals looked mad as hell but nothing died.

Just make sure you have a good amount of carbon and a filter with a pretty good flow to use it in. I bought a Magnum a long time ago and use it for this kind of situation, for when I need to remove or clean the water fast.

Also keep in mind your going to have to treat more than once. You should treat once a week for several weeks to kill anything that may hatch from eggs after the initial treatment.

Good luck

 

Great, I read this thread and now I'm freaking out! Today I put in some Phytoplankton and I saw a couple of what I think are flatworms come out of the rocks.

 

Really no need to freak out, they are not that big a deal. I took me a few weeks to get rid of them and havent seen them since so its no big deal.
And some flat worms are not a problem, this is the kind that you need to worry about if you have them.