Best Wrasse or other to help control planaria?

[Dondante]

I have one fairy wrasse. About to manually suck them and treat with FWexit. Need something to help control them after treatment.

Also is Flatworm Exit the route most people take?

 

[Tastee]

It depends on the type of Flatworm. I believe FW Exit and similar products are effective on Red Planaria but not so much on other Flatworms. I had a small infestation of brown Flatworms which killed some Euphyllia and Hammers and dosing Flatworm RX (which I believe is chemically the same as FW Exit) didn’t seem to bother them. My Sixline Wrasse ignored them as well, even though they are supposed to eat them (mine is probably too well fed to bother with FWs!). For me it was manual removal, and after a few months that worked (as far as I can tell anyway).

 

[Randallh99]

My tank had a planaria invasion and I bought a Melanarus wrasse. Took about two weeks but planaria free (the second time in my reefing career that I had done this). These wrasses are well known to go after planaria. Fairy wrasses not so much.

 

[Dondante]

 

[AcroNem]

I've found Halichoeres wrasses to be very helpful.

 

[Dondante]

Would it get along with a fairy wrasse?

 

[Crashjack]

Would it get along with a fairy wrasse?

Yes. I have a Melanurus with fairy wrasses... no issues.

 

[Dondante]

Yes. I have a Melanurus with fairy wrasses... no issues.

Have you seen them eat Flatworms? Lol this is what I'm dealing with.

 

[CubsFan]

Also had success with halichores melanurus.

 

[Cherub]

flatworm exit worked like a charm on these for me. like with in 15 minutes. I dosed again a week later just in case

 

[lolmatt]

What size tank do you have?

 

[OrionN]

Consider get the coral out and do fresh water dip. A few minutes swirling around in a bath of fresh water and they all fall of. Essentially all of the attach to the coral, so just take the small rock with coral and dip it is all you have to do. Re-dip if any return. Coral tolerate this procedure very well, but not the flat worm.
Pest control wrasses (Halichores Genus) need a sand bed.

 

[Dondante]

What size tank do you have?

150 gallon

 

[Dondante]

Consider get the coral out and do fresh water dip. A few minutes swirling around in a bath of fresh water and they all fall of. Essentially all of the attach to the coral, so just take the small rock with coral and dip it is all you have to do. Re-dip if any return. Coral tolerate this procedure very well, but not the flat worm.
Pest control wrasses (Halichores Genus) need a sand bed.

I planned on dipping with coral RX. You think fresh would be better? I'm down with that.


Just purchased:
Yellow Corris Wrasse and a
Pintail Wrasse

I already have a fairy wrasse of some sort.

Got some Exit just in case I need it.

Also found a used 45jbj all in one at my local shop to set up as a quarantine for future additions. Should have done that long ago. Smh

 

[lolmatt]

150 gallon

Many choices. Almost any species of the genuses halichoeres or macropharyngodon will crush those flat worms and will be fine with your existing wrasse. My favorites are h. iridis (poor shipper), h. chrysus (cheap, hardy, and pretty), and m. ornatus (most hardy of the leopard wrasses imo.

Both genuses sleep under the sand.

 

[Dondante]

I wanted a leopard but he didn't have one. He's going to try and get me one. I'm realizing wrasses and Tangs are probably the best maintenance fish in a reef Tank. Should have been ahead of the game with wrasses.

 

[OrionN]

Lether tolerate FWD just fine. The polyps all retracted make it really to get the flat worm to fall off. Take the coral swirl in one path, then again in a second path then longer in a tank water path. a minute in each path except the third, look at it carefully in the tank water path to make sure all fell off. The next day, the coral will look like nothing happened other than no flat worm.

 

[OrionN]

In a 150, I would get a few Leopard. They are really nice fish and a Melanurus, an extremely handsome wrasse. Mine was in my tank since she was 1.5 inches. Still a female but even a female, she is beautiful.

Melanurus Female

Black Leopard Male

Meleagris Leopards (all females)

 

[Dondante]

Lether tolerate FWD just fine. The polyps all retracted make it really to get the flat worm to fall off. Take the coral swirl in one path, then again in a second path then longer in a tank water path. a minute in each path except the third, look at it carefully in the tank water path to make sure all fell off. The next day, the coral will look like nothing happened other than no flat worm.

They are also on my hammer(calcium base) and a few mushrooms. FWD or Coral Rx dip for those?

 

[lolmatt]

Coralrx will take care of them on the hammers no problem. I would dip again in a week, too.

I did exactly that, plus I have many wrasses in my tank, and I haven't seen a flat worm in years.