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you can also look at buying a fish that will eat them (six line comes to mind) that will help control them if they happen to come back

 

PackLeader

Wow, this is going to be a trip, Okay here is pretty much how it says to do this task of getting rid of flatworms. I need your advice on this, Okay first I have to vaccum out as many worms as I can, this is going to eliminate a great deal of water from my tank, then I have to put the water back up to a working level in the tank then put in the medication and thirty minutes later or a lil bit longer not sure yet, then take out 25% of the water again and put it back and hope it got all of them. that is going to be probably close to 50% of the water changed in one day, isnt that to much benificial bacteria to lose in one day? And then I might have to make more water that day for all this as I only have a 32 gallon trash can, then I have depleted some oxygen from the tank and that with the bacteria loss, dont you think that is a bit much for my coral's to survive through?
What if I were to get another tank put all my life in it except snails and do my DT then dose the small tank with the life forms in it a week or so later and instead of doing a water change just acclimate them back to the DT then they arent stuck in a tank lacking oxygen and benificial bacteria?
Danny

 

The secondary tank is a good idea. The only thing is, flatworms hide everywhere. So just know that with your corals will come some flatworms into the QT. That is OK though. If you were to treat the other tank, you would get the lion's share of the worms and the toxins released would not harm a thing....they would just get caught by the carbon and the water would clean up over the next week. The corals will survive in a your other tank. Just hook up your old Jebo skimmer, move over your lights, plug in a heater and go for it.