rusty flatworms NEED HELP

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  1. white-rasta

    white-rasta Bristle Worm

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    I have a 65gallon and a 30gallon refugium,
    it started like this, one day i saw red worms in my tank. all over the glass on the rocks on corals and it just multiplyed from then on.
    At first i thought it was from my two cleaner shrimp, since they were a mating pair. i saw the eggs from the shrimps on my rocks! i thought the worms i were baby shrimp. silly me. the worms took over i tried siphoning them, water changes, blowing them off the glass and rocks and into a net but it only did so much.
    so i went baught some flatworm exit, it worked great but now i have just a few like 5 that appear every day. i kill them!
    What else besides chemicals can help me?
    I have 2 clownfish, yellow watchman goby, tiger pistol shrimp, 1 cleaner shrimp, snails, hermit crabs
    I also have corals, 4 colonys of zoo's, a mushroom leather(i think),mushrooms, hamerhead, star polyps, and i forget what its called but its like an anemone but has a bony base.
    Another problem i have is my mushrooms, they are shrivled up and have little white squiglys in the center of them. basically i think they are dieing what can i do?
     
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  3. Tangster

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    Get some flatworm exit and follow the directions problem solved but get them soon the longer you wait the more difficult it well be and run a higher risk to killing the tank off.
     
  4. white-rasta

    white-rasta Bristle Worm

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    i did the whole flatworm exit process!
    there where none till 9 days later!
    should i use the flatworm exit again ?
    or is there somthing else i could do?
     
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    Yes treat it again asap as it may take several treatments to kill them all off totaly
     
  6. white-rasta

    white-rasta Bristle Worm

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    okay will do
    thanks for the advice