Flat worm invasion!

[d.french]

i have spotted mandarin they are awesome little fish

[Sxybeemr325]

But don't you need to feed them with live food? As I do not have a sump...

[kimoy]

I would not wait longer anymore in eradicating those flatworms. it's just going to get worse everyday.

Biff...nice female leopard wrasse.

[d.french]

before i had a sump i had a hang on fuge with some chaeto and cheap light on it and because of that i had so many pods it was unreal.

[d.french]

helped feed spotted mandarin, but i think i would try leopard wrasse. i know different people that keep christmas wrasse, green or yellow coris wrasse who's tanks have to pest what so every not even bristle worms cause wrasse just clean house on their tanks.

[IraqVeteran]

I have never tried what I am about to suggest, however it is a mere suggestion; quite possibly a question at this point since I have never tried this myself. What if Sxy did a quick "freshwater dip" with her live rock? Would that possibly work on the rocks themselves to rid the worms? But I suppose that might also kill her beneficial bacteria within the rock as well right?

Like I said, I am just throwing that idea out there. You all might know more about the do's and dont's of the "freshwater dip" method. I have just read about it in past periodicals.

Go Army!!!!

[reeffreak]

A freshwater dip will kill everything-beneficial bacteria,copepods,brittlestars.I don't think that's a good option.

[Bifferwine]

I also wouldn't do a freshwater dip. Freak is right, it'd kill everything and likely start a new cycle once she put it back in her tank.

Sxy, I have a sixline wrasse also, and the two wrasses get along fine. I have never even seen them interact. Your tank is large enough that I don't think it'd be a problem to have both of them.

As for the mandarin, I also think you could successfully keep one of these. You have a big tank that's been up and running healthy for over a year. Of course, finding a mandarin that eats frozen food is ideal, but I think your tank would be able to provide a mandarin with sufficient live food. I also have a mandarin in my tank, but then again, I have a 55 gallon sump/fuge.

[Sxybeemr325]

I'd love to have a mandarin! They catch my attention everytime i go to my LFS. And everytime, I resist as I know they are hard to keep and I woudn't want to kill anything. I had nothing dying in my tank(so far) except for the 4 clowns jumping out(suicidal clowns)..My two clowns now are safe as they won't leave my gonipora alone. But I tought that mandarins eats pods. Don't I need a refugium for that? Also, how do I really know if it will eat frozen food? ask my LFS to feed it and see if it eatz frozen foods? I also searched on the internet last night, and I came across something saying that if you have a wrass, the wrass will eat all the pods before the mandarin will? Is that true?

And how big are pods? how do i know if i have pods in my tank or not? am i supposed to see them?

[Sxybeemr325]

and as for the freshwater dip, no way! I have 150 lbs of live rocks! I am so not taking everything out!!! (here is the lazy in me )