Bugs! Id please

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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.

Ok great :) I also remember reading on a post that they ran 2 carbon reactors. But didn't run the carbon until the 20 minutes was up and changed the water. I think they also changed the carbon out after a few hours or so to fresh. I might be remembering wrong though.

Jackie
125g mixed reef peninsula
 
Well I bit the bullet and treated with flatworm exit. Good and so.enot so good results.

I prepared well before starting. I had 2 2 little fishes 150 reactors FULL with mixed types of carbon (pellet large and small, granular and coarse) on stanby, 30g fresh SW, 6 fresh filter socks, nets lines with cheesecloth for scooping out, airline for syphening, and protien skimmer on wet skim.

As directions stated, I dosed accordingly, waited 30 minutes and saw little deaths, added 1/2 dose more. 15 minutes later it looked like a blizzard occured in the tank.
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The tank was crystal clear before. The cloud is dead small flatworms.
I turned on carbon reactors and began netting and syphoning what I could. I changed socks every 30 minutes also. After an hour I did the water change.

I lost my Hollywood stunner chalice within the 1st 10 minutes of treatment & my new yellow with purple tips acro right after :( I'm going to leave them in the dt, maybe they'll return to life, time will tell.

It's been 6 hours since treatment began and the tank is clean and clear. However, I still see a few flatworms appearing on the glass. I am going to leave it alone tonight but try to siphon them out in the morning.

Should I retreat the tank and how soon? I have a 6 line wrasse but no cash flow for other critters right now.

Jackie
125g mixed reef peninsula
 

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