Bugs! Id please
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Look like Flatworms to me.
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Your thinking of Red Planaria. But there are several color forms. See here.
http://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images?_adv_prop=image&fr=iphone&va=saltwater+flatworms
http://www.melevsreef.com/flatworms.html
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.AcroKiller.
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I used to have them and used flat worm exit but I lost a few of my pets. After the treatment I so a few more a couple of month after so I got one of each of flat worm eating fish, melanarus,yellow wrasse,target mandarin,green mandarin and a springer damsel and have not seen any more of them
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Jackie
What pets did you lose? I've read several threads that the wrasses don't do much in population control. I have flatworm exit on the way. 2 tanks are infected 
One is a new 24g tank that was seeded with the 125g water and rock, so no livestock yet. But the 125g has several coral, fish & inverts. I also haven't seen my 6-line nipping at them.
Jackie
125g mixed reef peninsula
One is a new 24g tank that was seeded with the 125g water and rock, so no livestock yet. But the 125g has several coral, fish & inverts. I also haven't seen my 6-line nipping at them. Jackie
125g mixed reef peninsula
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Jackie
If I can catch them that is without destroying the tank.. lol. My tangs are 4 1/2" & 5" plus 3 dispar anthias, coral beauty, lg blue chromis, 2- 3 1/2" Osc. Clowns & 6 line wrasse. That's a lot for a 24g to hold. I also have a serpant star, sandsifter star, many astrea snails and the mini sand snails that look like conch and tons of hermits.
Wouldn't you know, just when the tank is finally stable and starting to support acros this has to happen
Jackie
125g mixed reef peninsula
If done correctly Flatworm Exit is a great product. I've personally used it twice with NO loss at all!
Here's the #1 key to using it successfully. Have make up water ready and change after 15-20 minutes of treatment. You do NOT want the dead flatworms in your tank for any length of time, period!
On my 26g I double dosed Flatworm Exit. Within 2-3 minutes there were 100's floating everywhere. For the next 5 minutes I was a netting fool!! After this I drained out 5g while at the same time sucking out more worms. The entire treatment lasted no longer then 15-20 minutes! Time is important!!!
I repeated this same process 2 weeks later and haven't seen a flatworm since.
My live stock-2x Fish
Hermit
Cleaner Shrimp
Asterina Stars
Sails all kinds
Bristle Worms
LPS-Softies & MM's
Again NO losses
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Here's the #1 key to using it successfully. Have make up water ready and change after 15-20 minutes of treatment. You do NOT want the dead flatworms in your tank for any length of time, period!
On my 26g I double dosed Flatworm Exit. Within 2-3 minutes there were 100's floating everywhere. For the next 5 minutes I was a netting fool!! After this I drained out 5g while at the same time sucking out more worms. The entire treatment lasted no longer then 15-20 minutes! Time is important!!!
I repeated this same process 2 weeks later and haven't seen a flatworm since.
My live stock-2x Fish
Hermit
Cleaner Shrimp
Asterina Stars
Sails all kinds
Bristle Worms
LPS-Softies & MM's
Again NO losses
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Jackie
Lol, yep I have been there a few times before with a disastrous 150g!
The 125 is seriously infected however. I am super concerned about losing my few acros and lps as well as the fish. My pb has come a really long way and is now thriving.
Jackie
125g mixed reef peninsula
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prsnlty
Jackie
If done correctly Flatworm Exit is a great product. I've personally used it twice with NO loss at all!
Here's the #1 key to using it successfully. Have make up water ready and change after 15-20 minutes of treatment. You do NOT want the dead flatworms in your tank for any length of time, period!
On my 26g I double dosed Flatworm Exit. Within 2-3 minutes there were 100's floating everywhere. For the next 5 minutes I was a netting fool!! After this I drained out 5g while at the same time sucking out more worms. The entire treatment lasted no longer then 15-20 minutes! Time is important!!!
I repeated this same process 2 weeks later and haven't seen a flatworm since.
My live stock-2x Fish
Hermit
Cleaner Shrimp
Asterina Stars
Sails all kinds
Bristle Worms
LPS-Softies & MM's
Again NO losses
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Im going to have 30g of fresh SW ready and bite the bullet while hoping for the best. The Exit arrives in 2 days.
I'm also wondering.... if it's in my tank then it's in my sump. What do I do about that? Or do I leave the sump running and just turn off carbon & bio pellet reactors and skimmer?
Jackie
125g mixed reef peninsula
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Jackie
Should they be killed then? This kind won't smother coral like the others? They seem to be taking over.
Jackie
125g mixed reef peninsula
rworegon
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Leave the carbon reactor running as well as skimmer. Also have a fresh filter sock ready if you use one. Since the dead flatworms are toxic you want every means possible to remove both the bodies and the toxins from the water. If I'm not mistaken the instructions explicitly say to keep carbon and skimmer running.
I shut down my skimmer but left everything else running. But I only have a 3.3g HOB fuge. I would shut down the reactors.
Have you noticed them in your sump also? Personally I would turn off your intake/return pumps to the sump. Maybe treat your sump separately if possible. Otherwise just treat again in two weeks.
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