Help id flatworm

[Christian0505]

I found these flatworms on my two hamer corals. I dipt them immediately in my Red Sea DipX. Would like to know what kind of flatworms they are as my fish clearly didn’t eat them…

I have the following fish which I would have expected them to eat the flatworms..

- Yellow wrasse
- carpenter wrasse
- mandarin fish
- Synchiropus marmoratus

any other fish recommendations? Tank is a waterbox peninsula 3620. 6 line wrasse is not an option as i have many other small fish which will be bullied.

 

[SlugSnorter]

Looks like planaria to me

 

[Christian0505]

Looks like planaria to me

So that would mean my fish are either lazy or get fed to well?

 

[Hungrypede]

Looks like euphyllia eating flatworms, especially if found on your hammer. Is the hammer doing OK?

When I dealt with EEFW I dipped euphyllia every few days in a heavy concentration of Bayer. Gotta kill the adults as they hatch before they can lay more eggs. There’s a mix of opinions of using flatworm exit on the tank will work for these types of flatworms.

 

[Troylee]

So that would mean my fish are either lazy or get fed to well?

Means they prolly didn’t see it lol.. if it’s moving in site they’ll get it.. it’s not a Eefw so I wouldn’t sweat it.

 

[SlugSnorter]

So that would mean my fish are either lazy or get fed to well?

the worms can hide out - wrasses aren't gonna be able to 100% wipe them out all the time.

 

[SlugSnorter]

Looks like euphyllia eating flatworms, especially if found on your hammer. Is the hammer doing OK?

When I dealt with EEFW I dipped euphyllia every few days in a heavy concentration of Bayer. Gotta kill the adults as they hatch before they can lay more eggs. There’s a mix of opinions of using flatworm exit on the tank will work for these types of flatworms.

I agree with FW exit

 

[Christian0505]

Looks like euphyllia eating flatworms, especially if found on your hammer. Is the hammer doing OK?

When I dealt with EEFW I dipped euphyllia every few days in a heavy concentration of Bayer. Gotta kill the adults as they hatch before they can lay more eggs. There’s a mix of opinions of using flatworm exit on the tank will work for these types of flatworms.

hamers were 50% retracted, that’s how I noticed. On this picture you can actually see the flatworms on the hamer.

 

[zoomonster]

Just for the record... my hellfire torch was looking troubled the past few days and today I decided to give it an iodine dip since a newer hammer did the brown jelly meltdown. When I took it out of the iodine, I noticed what looked like small flat, almost clear translucent slugs moving. Those were quickly identified as Euphyllia eating flatworms. That piece quicky got a dip in CoralRx and two big ones came right off. The piece then got scrubbed with a tooth brush and dipped again. Again, mine where quite a bit larger than your picture which I probably would have said was a regular brown flatworm. Needless to say all my newer torches, hammers and frog got a fresh dip but no more worms found. I've gotten quite a few new pieces of Euphyllia in the past 6 weeks and something slipped by. I borrowed this picture but this is what they looked like in dip container.

BTW I have had those brown flatworms in the past and flatworm exit and CoralRx work well.