Giant Planaria on New Coral??

[hbubley]

Just pulled my new coral (from LFS) out of the bag and there is a giant planaria flat worm on it! Kinda icked out right now It was very big, I don't know how I didn't notice it before!

Coral is a GSP, I got two other corals from different tanks. I just dipped all of them in coral RX for 10 minutes and it's not on the coral anymore.

What do I do?? I really want to keep the corals but I don't know what the best decision is here.

 

[MERKEY]

I hate to say this but unless you have a dedicated QT for your corals, you will end up with pests at some point.

It's the nasty downside of the hobby.

 

[MERKEY]

You can dip again and look for eggs but honestly we never see them all.

 

[vetteguy53081]

Just pulled my new coral (from LFS) out of the bag and there is a giant planaria flat worm on it! Kinda icked out right now It was very big, I don't know how I didn't notice it before!

Coral is a GSP, I got two other corals from different tanks. I just dipped all of them in coral RX for 10 minutes and it's not on the coral anymore.

What do I do?? I really want to keep the corals but I don't know what the best decision is here.

Please post a pic of flatworm to identify it is indeed planaria . Polyclad generally on GSP and neither would do much harm to GSP but will lay eggs if fertile and cause issues

 

[hbubley]

Yeah It has eggs on it, I can scrape the eggs off or just toss the coral. I haven't decided. I need a QT tank for sure, sadly the extra I had I'm using for my white tail (just recently came in and under observation).

Please post a pic of flatworm to identify it is indeed planaria . Polyclad generally on GSP and neither would do much harm to GSP but will lay eggs if fertile and cause issues

I wish I got a pic, I threw that thing in the dip I was so freaked out. It definitely looked like a polyclad, like giant and spread across the diameter of the GSP. Brown body. Like 1/4th an inch wide or 1/3rd an inch. I can take pics of the eggs on it.

 

[vetteguy53081]

Yeah It has eggs on it, I can scrape the eggs off or just toss the coral. I haven't decided. I need a QT tank for sure, sadly the extra I had I'm using for my white tail (just recently came in and under observation).

I wish I got a pic, I threw that thing in the dip I was so freaked out. It definitely looked like a polyclad, like giant and spread across the diameter of the GSP. Brown body. Like 1/4th an inch wide or 1/3rd an inch. I can take pics of the eggs on it.

Scraping off should work

 

[hbubley]

Guys my next fish is def gonna be a wrasse I'm like so terrified of these tiny worms I don't know why.

I found some more worms in the salt water rinse post-dipping. So I scraped off the eggs and threw it in the dip to sit for another 10 minutes.

Should I premptively flat worm exit my tank??

 

[tautog83]

Its gsp ,throw the gsp out lol and ask someone for a free frag

 

[hbubley]

Its gsp ,throw the gsp out lol and ask someone for a free frag

You're probably right, but I've cleaned it off and checked it over like crazy, not on a rock so I could really get under it. It's clean now for sure, more worried about the more expensive corals that I got out of different tanks tbh. If they have it in one tank it's likely in all of them