Dilan Patel
2500 Club Member
Been living with Red Planaria in my system for a little over 7 months. This is a 180 gallon system+ 40gallon Sump and 10 Gallon Frag tank all plumbed together so im guessing around 200 gallon total volume. No sand but LR and coral lol. I don't really see them as I do have predators such as sixline, target mandarin and springeri damsel but ive decided to rid the tank using Flatworm exit. I have shut the light off in the sump as I think they are PHOTOSYNTHETIC right? I have a 40ish gallon brute mixed up of fresh SW for Dooms day. I will have my brs media canisters both full of carbon for when the dieoff starts to happen. I have made frags and moved a few (dipping in 2L of fresh SW with 1 dropper full of coral rx pro and 2 drops of Flatworm exit and scrubbing) to my 135v as backups in case things dont go to plan. This is my plan for next week:
Monday: Dose about 250 drops and suction out dead Red planaria with airline tubing in Main display+ frag tank. Dont have to worry about sump right? If things look to be doing well I may just finish the bottle than run carbon(first sign of dieoff) and waterchange after im doing sucking out stringed out planaria!
Tuesday
bservation day+ get new batch of SW mixed up
Wednesday: Do second dose of flatworm exit with steps listed above
Thursday: observation+ SW mixing day
Friday: 3rd treatment
Im not sure the egg cycle of red planaria so should I keep there schedule like I got it or should I increase observation day by 1 more day?
Did I overkill the 3rd treatment would prefer to not do it but I am DETERMAINED to get rid of them lol. Anything I did not consider? I would suck out RP leading up to the treatment day but I physically cannot see but a few of them and when I dip I did not see any.
Thanks
Monday: Dose about 250 drops and suction out dead Red planaria with airline tubing in Main display+ frag tank. Dont have to worry about sump right? If things look to be doing well I may just finish the bottle than run carbon(first sign of dieoff) and waterchange after im doing sucking out stringed out planaria!
Tuesday
bservation day+ get new batch of SW mixed up Wednesday: Do second dose of flatworm exit with steps listed above
Thursday: observation+ SW mixing day
Friday: 3rd treatment
Im not sure the egg cycle of red planaria so should I keep there schedule like I got it or should I increase observation day by 1 more day?
Did I overkill the 3rd treatment would prefer to not do it but I am DETERMAINED to get rid of them lol. Anything I did not consider? I would suck out RP leading up to the treatment day but I physically cannot see but a few of them and when I dip I did not see any.
Thanks
