Flatworm ID and help for 5g

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Please help ID these flatworms. I have tried flatworm exit 3 times increasing the amount each time. I still have them the next day And I siphon more off the glass. I don’t have any fish in the tank at the moment, I have LPS/softies/inverts. Not sure I could get a fish to help for now but it’s a 5g. Any other treatments that are reef safe besides flatworm exit? Thank you!

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Rust brown planaria and although not an immediate danger, siphon any you would see with a 3/8" or 1/4" tube. If many, wrasse will eat them such as : Yellow coris. 6 lined, lunare or melanurus.
Can be treated chemically also but be sure to siphon dead ones which can emit toxins.
These worms tend to cause injury by smothering the coral and once the corals begin to decay the flatworms start to consume the Zooxanthellae.
Looks daily the next 14 days for presence of eggs which are tiny. and scrape off into garbage
 

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