Killed most my SPS

[jsbzcmcdaniel]

My tank has been up and running for 4 months now and the 7 SPS frags I had in my tank are likely gone. Last week I was moving some of my rock to re-aquascape and I found flat worms on the glass. I ordered some FlatWorm Exit and treated the tank. Before hand, I pulled the 20 frags (sos & zoo's) out and prepared a batch of CoralRX per the directions. I added three caps to 1g tank water with a power head. I left them in the solution for 5-10 minutes as directed. In the meantime, I began my 20% water change and started the reactor with fresh carbon. I then reintroduced the coral to the tank. I noticed I had little to know polyp extension and within a couple hours my JF Flame began to loose tissue. This morning others are starting to loose tissue and I am afraid I may have lost them all. Not sure what happened other than stress them due to the dipping.

Anyone else lose SPS from CoralRX process or is this just bad luck?

 

[Sean Fitz]

Ive dipped all my acros in it when purchased with no ill effects but have never used flatworm exit. That really sucks though im sorry to hear that.

 

[Graffiti Spot]

Flatworms can foul the water if they are not syphoned out of the tank as they die off into the water column. I always dip with coral extra and revive at 5 min. Ten min is right at the time the dip will start stressing a number of Acropora species.

 

[Aaron-A2]

Nothing necessarily wrong with CoralRX, though I will say it's much harsher on corals than the alternatives. For SPS, I'd recommend Bayer Advanced Insect Killer (recently rebranded to Bioadvanced). Very soft on SPS, kills flatworms, and is cheap.

If you do go that route, please make sure to google on proper use and directions.

 

[jda]

CoralRx is hard on smooth skinned coral. Really hard. Fox Flame is a smoothie. Dipping any coral that was just stressed is hard on them too - the combo of planaria toxins and a dip was likely too much to recover from. Bayer is easer on coral. BTW.

The dying red planaria are no joke. The toxins that they release can kill many things - people blame this on the medicine, but the medicine is safe. I am sorry that this has happened. Now that you started this, treat the tank for the flatworms again in a week and then two weeks. There are always a few that make it through and need a second or third treatment. These next two will be easier since the worm count will be significantly lower.

 

[Backreefing]

I’m glad to not have this happen , I’ve been lucky. And by the way I read that the lowly blue demsel ( blue devil) likes to eat flat worms. Can anyone confirm or not ?
I can say the blue demsel I had would eat colonial hydroids