Critter on elegance... In elegance

GSnake · Sep 20, 2019

Hi, found a few of these in my elegance which is relatively new to my tank. 3 weeks now. It's sort of closed up past few days too. Haven't been able to find an I'd for these little round brown things, and they move pretty fast. Should I be worried

Jake_the_reefer · Sep 20, 2019

Looks like flatworm

KJ · Sep 21, 2019

Google C. retrogema flatworm .

WV Reefer · Sep 21, 2019

GSnake said:
Hi, found a few of these in my elegance which is relatively new to my tank. 3 weeks now. It's sort of closed up past few days too. Haven't been able to find an I'd for these little round brown things, and they move pretty fast. Should I be worried

I had them on mine and I did a quick swish in fresh water and they all fell off..... never saw them in the tank again.

GSnake · Sep 22, 2019

easy to deal with, I was going to freshwater swish too--- thought id try turkey baster first, 2/3 are gone now, the other is inside the still closed coral. hope it opens up soon...

there has been skepticism about these critters being flatworms or not, since they look round on the coral, but once taken out, they go into their regular recognizable rectangular shape that are on most ID pages!