Little brownish orange worm?

[DesktopReefer]

Anyone have an ID? It moves smoothly along the glass, smaller than a grain of sand, and the smooth end is the direction it moves.

 

[moz71]

Flatworms. Could overrun tank. Really can’t tell what color it is. Red no good!

 

[DesktopReefer]

Flatworms. Could overrun tank. Really can’t tell what color it is. Red no good!

Well darn. When I google flatworm it certainly looks like that. Time to do some research.

 

[moz71]

I had a plague of red flatworms but when I got a malenarus and leopard wrasse they quickly took care of them but read much worse cases. And don’t like what I read when people flatworm x or out or whatever it’s called it polluted the tank so try to take care of sooner rather than later

 

[vetteguy53081]

No frets. This is an acoel flatworms and not the kind that strips the coral but rather an issue in numbers. The issue is , they congregate on stem of coral and block the light needed to produce zooxanthellae which rae the feeding blocks for stony coral.
If a couple or few, simply siphon up with a 3/8" tubing and discard. If many, add a wrasse that will eat them such as :
Yellow coris
6 line
lunare
Melanurus

Also springieri damsel will eat them.

 

[DesktopReefer]

Well good news, I just got it out with a turkey baster. I’ll be on the look out for its little friends if it has any.

 

[vetteguy53081]

Well good news, I just got it out with a turkey baster. I’ll be on the look out for its little friends if it has any.

Doubt if any but also look for the next 14 days for presence of egg cluster which are really tiny