Flatworm treatment plan.

[Kbrow0810]

My tank is a biocube 29 with a Midas blenny, clownfish, and green banded goby along with two cleaner shrimp. Most coral include a torch, frogspawn, lobos, and some zoas.

Apparently, a frag I recently acquired had red planaria on it. Now I have a pretty large population.

I’ve purchased flatworm exit, and I’ve already vacuumed out a good portion of them. My next plan of attack was to put my live rock in a 5 gallon bucket or two with old tank water and treat it by itself with flatworm exit, dip it in fresh saltwater, and return it to the tank after I vacuum as many flatworms out of the DT as I can. Next step would be treat the entire tank followed by a water change as instructed.

Retreatment would just be for the entire tank a week later.

Does this sound viable to avoid the dreaded toxin released by the flatworms upon death?

 

[hdsoftail1065]

My tank is a biocube 29 with a Midas blenny, clownfish, and green banded goby along with two cleaner shrimp. Most coral include a torch, frogspawn, lobos, and some zoas.

Apparently, a frag I recently acquired had red planaria on it. Now I have a pretty large population.

I’ve purchased flatworm exit, and I’ve already vacuumed out a good portion of them. My next plan of attack was to put my live rock in a 5 gallon bucket or two with old tank water and treat it by itself with flatworm exit, dip it in fresh saltwater, and return it to the tank after I vacuum as many flatworms out of the DT as I can. Next step would be treat the entire tank followed by a water change as instructed.

Retreatment would just be for the entire tank a week later.

Does this sound viable to avoid the dreaded toxin released by the flatworms upon death?

I have used it numerous times, I would just do the treatments with your rock in place and treat according to directions. It took several treatments to totally eliminate them from our 32 Biocube.

 

[Kbrow0810]

How many did you vacuum out prior to treatment? Any losses?

 

[hdsoftail1065]

We lost 1 clown during our first treatment but I can't say if it was from the fw exit or not. I am pretty convinced it got injured itself during our panic on our first treatment. I have never lost anything, fish, inverts and nems during the treatments after the first one. I have treated our 144 and 32. If you like I can pm my number if you want to chat about it.

 

[hdsoftail1065]

We vacuumed what we could see before the first treatment, but you will have more hiding in the rocks and substrate that you can't see. Don't freak out, it's not that bad.

 

[Kbrow0810]

I’m just trying to minimize my risk. I have a 150 that I can move coral and stuff to if things go south. Either way works for me on the PM. I hate to take much time out of your day over it.

I vacuumed out quite a few earlier this past weekend. I also bought a bunch of carbon to run post waterchange and treatment.

 

[hdsoftail1065]

You planed it out well, maybe a little prime on hand just in case.

 

[FREAKINRICAN69]

I’m just trying to minimize my risk. I have a 150 that I can move coral and stuff to if things go south. Either way works for me on the PM. I hate to take much time out of your day over it.

I vacuumed out quite a few earlier this past weekend. I also bought a bunch of carbon to run post waterchange and treatment.

How did you vacuum the worms out? I have the same issue and they're driving me nuts. My 6 line wrasse was doing good with them but since he left (decided to jump out of the tank) they've multiplied again and i have the same dilemma again. I had previously moved a frag from my 120dt to my wife's nano and now i have them there as well. SMFH

 

[Kbrow0810]

I should have some of that around here somewhere. Hopefully all goes well.

 

[Kbrow0810]

How did you vacuum the worms out? I have the same issue and they're driving me nuts. My 6 line wrasse was doing good with them but since he left (decided to jump out of the tank) they've multiplied again and i have the same dilemma again. I had previously moved a frag from my 120dt to my wife's nano and now i have them there as well. SMFH

A long piece of airline tuning will suck them up without pulling a ton of water.

 

[FREAKINRICAN69]

A long piece of airline tuning will suck them up without pulling a ton of water.

Can you pm me pic's plz i tried before and couldnt get suction or syphon...

 

[hdsoftail1065]

I tried vacuuming it was actually a pain. I used a fine mesh fish net to capture the dead ones floating in the wc, it was much easier. I never worked about 100% removal of the dead ones, I got what I could and moved on with no issues.

 

[Kbrow0810]

Can you pm me pic's plz i tried before and couldnt get suction or syphon...

I will in a little while when I start pulling more Worms out. My piece is 6ft long. Started suction with a syringe or mouth. As long as the bucket was well below the level of my tank end, I had no issues.

 

[FREAKINRICAN69]

I will in a little while when I start pulling more Worms out. My piece is 6ft long. Started suction with a syringe or mouth. As long as the bucket was well below the level of my tank end, I had no issues.

Well noted, thanks in advanced as i want to siphon as much as possible and prevent from using any chems in the tank...

 

[Kbrow0810]

Well noted, thanks in advanced as i want to siphon as much as possible and prevent from using any chems in the tank...

Man, I got to treating my tank and forgot to send a pic. Not much to show though. I managed to auction better than half of the total that I ended up getting out of my tank though. Be prepared to spend a lot of time though.