What Eats Red Flatworms?

[Hiker4twenty]

I was over my parents house on Sunday and was checking out my brother's tank. He asked me what these weird looking things were covering his LR. At first I thought it was all red coralline that was starting to overlap and plate out. Then I saw everything moving with the current and saw there were hundreds of thousands of flatworms. Almost every square inch of LR was covered. I know there are too many for any fish or invert to handle, but thought it might be a good reason for him to add another fish anyway. I also told him to use Flatworm Exit.

 

[BL1]

Dragonets (mandarins and scooters) can eat them, it's not garaunteed though. Also wrasses like the 4 & 6 line wrasses, leopard and exquisite wrasses (and I'm sure other types of wrasses as well).

 

[Dana42078]

+1 BL1 I've heard its a hit and miss with all of the above stated tho. Goodluck Hiker420

 

[the reef kid]

I've heard yellow coris wrasses are the most likely to eat them. Make sure he siphons as many of them out before he puts in the FE

 

[Hiker4twenty]

I'm going to help him this weekend with it. I figure we can do a water change and syphon out as many as possible, then do the FE treatment and then another water change. With as many as he has it's probably going to take a few treatments.

 

[bjohanson1234]

Just follow the directions to the T. Also, it says to wait a week between treatments. But I bet you wont see any the second treatment, I didnt and I had tons of them.

 

[BL1]

Don't forget the carbon too, you're supposed to run it afterwards to help with any of the toxins in the water.

 

[Hiker4twenty]

Thanks. I have a media reactor and carbon so I can let him borrow that for a while.