Can someone identify these flatworms on my torch. How can I treat that? I'm Dipping my torches in coral rx and brushing the base with a tooth brush. Can someone identify it please and best treatment. Thank you
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Flatworms on torch
- Thread starter BaaMNYC
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Been doing some research. So dip every o
4 or 5 days for a few weeks? Should I dip just the one I found it on. Or should I just make it a routine and dip all of my torches, hammers, and frogspawn. All in one shot every 5 days for a few weeks?
How long before they were all gone?
- Location
- Staten Island
OMG i just avoided this disaster constantly check for eggs on the corals they tend to eat the skin of the torch at like the neck of the skeleton. I scraped them off with an excto knife.
- Location
- Queens, NY
i had flat worms on my new LPS, didn't ID the species, so I started looking up ultra reef safe wrasses, and found the pink stripe, possum and yellow cories wrasses to be suitable for biological control. While I was searching for fish locally in stores, turns out my dragonettes took care of them, within a few weeks. I have a pair of both spotted dragonettes and scooter blennies with them, not sure which species ate them. (my mandarin pair is in the main display, but I think they will eat them also). The initial problem I had, was the dragonettes would eat all the flatworms off rocks and dirty glass, but they wouldn't go over the LPS head. Well given time, they did.
- Location
- poughquag, ny
dip with coral rx every 5 days. check on them for eggs
- Location
- Staten Island
Dip all of your torch, frogspawn and hammers
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- Location
- Staten Island
That’s not a bad thing. Sounds like you caught them in time. Was there a recent addition of a new torch, hammer or frogspawn?
Honestly I just started restocking this tank. So everything is less than 3 months old. The newest torch was the one that had the flatworms on it. Banana torch I got from farmers frag market.
- Location
- Union Square, NY
These seem to be much more prevalent in recent months.
I don't know of a specific cure for them, but a melanurus wrasse is your best defense against random flatworms. They are great reef fish in general.
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I don't know of a specific cure for them, but a melanurus wrasse is your best defense against random flatworms. They are great reef fish in general.
Melanurus Wrasse
The Melanurus Wrasse is also referred to as the Tail Spot Wrasse and Hoeven's Wrasse. The body of this fish is blue-green in color and has pink or yellow stripe
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My last melnarus decimated my clean up crew. That's the only concernThese seem to be much more prevalent in recent months.
I don't know of a specific cure for them, but a melanurus wrasse is your best defense against random flatworms. They are great reef fish in general.
Melanurus Wrasse
The Melanurus Wrasse is also referred to as the Tail Spot Wrasse and Hoeven's Wrasse. The body of this fish is blue-green in color and has pink or yellow stripe
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