Brown tiny flat worms on glass? Help!

[Reffetsevla]

I have an abundance of them and have for about 4 months now. LIke, on the glass and have to use my glass cleaner to remove those more than anything else. No coral or adverse effects yet. However I am looking into a small Wrasse or Dragonet to help now. I still have room for one more fish lol

 

[rmorris_14]

Hopefully a better picture…super hard to see

The picture is still really hard to see. Here are some photos of mine.. do they looks similar?

 

[Reffetsevla]

The picture is still really hard to see. Here are some photos of mine.. do they looks similar?

Not the same as what I have

 

[commanderwho]

I have an abundance of them and have for about 4 months now. LIke, on the glass and have to use my glass cleaner to remove those more than anything else. No coral or adverse effects yet. However I am looking into a small Wrasse or Dragonet to help now. I still have room for one more fish Lola

A glass cleaner doesn’t kill them right just knocks them back into the water? So smashing them is not a good idea?

 

[commanderwho]

Not the same as what I have

That’s what I have!

 

[commanderwho]

The picture is still really hard to see. Here are some photos of mine.. do they looks similar?

Thanks for sharing but not those!

 

[Reffetsevla]

A glass cleaner doesn’t kill them right just knocks them back into the water? So smashing them is not a good idea?

Right it just puts them in the water column. Then my clowns eat them or they get sucked into the filter lol

 

[Reffetsevla]

That’s what I have!

From everything I've read these are pretty harmless except for as stated before, if they congregate around a coral they can irritate it, but they really feed on algae it seems. I still want to control them, they're all over lol

 

[commanderwho]

Right it just puts them in the water column. Then my clowns eat them or they get sucked into the filter lol

Have you tried smashing them lol.

From everything I've read these are pretty harmless except for as stated before, if they congregate around a coral they can irritate it, but they really feed on algae it seems. I still want to control them, they're all over lol

Got it, I haven’t added anything to my tank for roughly 4 months and never noticed them till one day! I smashed a bunch of them…not sure if that was a good idea?

 

[Reffetsevla]

Have you tried smashing them lol.

Got it, I haven’t added anything to my tank for roughly 4 months and never noticed them till one day! I smashed a bunch of them…not sure if that was a good idea?

I've crushed plenty doing maintenance hah No issues so far but no idea if it's a good idea or not

 

[neonreef3d]

When you say scrape them off the glass as in smashing them?

they are photosynthetic from my understanding, so scraping them off, sends them to the water column and into the overflow and to the filter

 

[Reffetsevla]

they are photosynthetic from my understanding, so scraping them off, sends them to the water column and into the overflow and to the filter

My clowns go for them once suspended like a little feeding frenzy lol I've caught them picking them off the walls too

 

[HudsonReefer2.0]

Mostly harmless but can multiply and also eat copepods and rotifers. melanurus wrasse eat them and have heard great things

I had them before I added my Melanarus and haven’t seen them for a while

 

[WirelessMike]

Got em…had em…still got em. Most say they are harmless. I put a six line wrasse in the tank and it knocked the numbers back. Still present but WAY less populated. They are a pain in the you know what to get rid of. Haven’t tried exit but plan on doing that if I transfer any coral to my new tank prior.

 

[mermaid_life]

i used to have a bunch of these but after I added my six line wrasse, they disappeared and my sixline has a big fat belly. =)

 

[vetteguy53081]

Hello, should I be concerned?

No panic- Not red planaria but rather acoel flatworms which in number can smother the base of coral blocking the light needed for production of zooxanthellae that supports growth and color.
What will eat them?

Yellow coris wrasse
lunare wrasse
6 line wrasse
melanurus wrasse

Springieri damsel

 

[commanderwho]

No panic- Not red planaria but rather acoel flatworms which in number can smother the base of coral blocking the light needed for production of zooxanthellae that supports growth and color.
What will eat them?

Yellow coris wrasse
lunare wrasse
6 line wrasse
melanurus wrasse

Springieri damsel

Seems like six line wrasse is always a must have for unwanted pests lol
What about the pink streaked wrasse?

 

[vetteguy53081]

Seems like six line wrasse is always a must have for unwanted pests lol
What about the pink streaked wrasse?

6 line more likely to consume them

 

[Slicktop]

if you see 50 you have 500 or more... I had not put anything new in my tank for over 2 years and then i saw a few on the glass and the frag rack. Treated with exit and was shocked how many were dying off, it looked like snow in the tank.. Its been a month... gonna hit em again next week..

 

[tinyfellows]

These worms were getting a little crazy on my glass but I just picked up two clowns yesterday and today I don’t have a single one on the glass