Help please! Is this red Flatworms?

I have alot of these little red thing all over a few of my rocks... is it flat worm? Whats the best way to remove it? Thanks in advance.

 

Definately flatworms! I had a bad infestation and all I did was to cut way back on my feeding and they ended up killing themselves out in a couple weeks. But you can buy actual medication for a flatworm problem.

 

Whether or not they will die off on their own depends a lot on the species. The red planaria tend not to. Here is a good reference if that is the case (I can't see the pic well on my phone)

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


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Thanks for confirming that they are flat worm. The more I look... the more I find in the tank. I see that they will release toxins when killed. Is there any fish or inverts that will eat and keep these suckers under control?

 

some wrasses including 6 line and I know theres some others some may chime in on.You can also siphon as many as you can with airline tubing which can help make a dent in the population.I've never had the red ones,but have heard a mass kill off can be bad for the tank.

 

What all do you have in your tank?

 

For fish I have yellow tang, 2 clown, 2 blue green, coral beauty. Invert I have 2 urchins, bubble rose tip, some hermit crab and a bunch of snails. Coral I have a couple of small Lps, and some star polyps. This is a 75 gallon tank with a 35 gallon sump.

 

The infestation that I had was the exact kind you have in the pic, the red kind. And starving them out by not feeding the tank worked for me! I had no ill effects of the numbers ging down because it happened slowly over the period of a few weeks. But some wrasses do eat flatworms, just google it, you will find something.

My tank is a 10gal nano
2 ocsellaris clowns
1 blue legged hermit
1 left handed hermit
3 blue knuckle hermit
8 margarita snails
1 turbo snail
eagle eye zoos
purple zoos
anthelia waving hand
devil's hand leather
kenya tree
green striped mushrooms
red mushrooms
blue mushrooms
Large frogspawn

 

I had em like that too....I used salifert flatworm exit. siphoned out as many as I could. they start dying instantly and start to float around the tank. I did an immediate large water change within 20-30 minutes after dosing to remove some of the toxins they release.. I have done this twice and everything as survived each time. I was nervous of a tank crash, but it all worked out in the end. GOOD LUCK!!!!;D

 

Oh and +1 to six line wrasses eating them