Red flatworms

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  1. carsona246

    carsona246 Plankton

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    Hey everyone, my college has a 150 gallon tank that I may(or may not) be taking over. The problem is the display glass is covered in coraline algae, and what I believe to be flatworms. I'm a newbie to saltwater, but a huge freshwater fan. I have 2 questions
    1. does anyone have a zoomed out picture of a flatworm? There are a ton over the glass, and it really just looks like a ton of small reddish lines. I can't tell if what I have are actually flatworms or not by comparing it to pictures I find, but they're taking over the display glass.
    2. Will mandarin dragonets eat flatworms? The tank is 150 gallons, and the only other occupants are a black clown fish, and what I believe is an orange tang. I need to make sure that these fish are compatibile with a mandarin dragonet, but from what I remember reading a few years ago, 150 gallons should be plenty big for a mandarin dragonet to have enough copepods to survive, and if it eats flatworms all the better. If it is the case that they do, I may just leave the flatworms in the tank until I can get enough copepods in the tank to keep a dragonet(there may already be enough in the tank it's pretty established, just needs some maintenance).
    Thanks!
     
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  3. ReefBruh

    ReefBruh Giant Squid

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    Checkerbox wrasses eat them. You might want to ask Evolve since he is the wrasse guru.
     
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  5. carsona246

    carsona246 Plankton

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    ah thanks, for some reason googling red flatworms only gave me zoomed in pictures, but planaria worked quite well. Turns out that's what it probably is