Peroxide and the use against flatworm

twilliard · Mar 24, 2016

Yup I ran a few tests last night with my flatworm and within 10 minutes gone.
You can treat your tank and keep a few steps in mind..
Remove any carbon
Dose tank and wait for about 15 minutes
Use a powerhead to kick these paralyzed flatworm in suspention.
The sump sock will catch them.
Must remove sock within 2 hours or they deteriorate and release toxins
Replace with clean sock and continue on!
(1 to 8 ratio is fine)

twilliard · Mar 24, 2016

drstratton said:
Todd, before I do this, do you or @brandon429 know if this will affect my starfish or the small hitch hiker clams in my tank? I also saw that Brandon said it may kill Xenia.

With the dilution of the h2o2 I would think no harm is done but brandon may have more insight

drstratton · Mar 24, 2016

twilliard said:
With the dilution of the h2o2 I would think no harm is done but brandon may have more insight

Thank you Todd! I will wait and see what Brandon has to say, since you're not completely sure. Hopefully, I will be getting my Melanuras Wrasse and if I do, I might not even have to do this!

drstratton · Mar 24, 2016

I am seeing many more flatworms now, I siphoned a bunch off! How does that happen, I wasn't seeing any and then boom all over and larger than the initial ones that I found! I went ahead and dosed my frag tank, we'll see how everything does in there. Once they are all gone in that tank, I will move my starfish over and then dose the DT. I don't know when my Melanuras will get here. The wrasse I'm getting is completely quarantined, if I have to order a different one, it will be at least 6wks before it can go into my tank as I will have to do the quarantine myself.

twilliard · Mar 24, 2016

Yes once they are introduced watch out.
They live in every nook and cranny

mocika · Apr 18, 2016

Any new information? is it better to dose via dosing pump or just once per day with syringe?

twilliard · Apr 18, 2016

I was dosing once per day with a syringe

mocika · Apr 18, 2016

And do you have positive results?

twilliard · Apr 18, 2016

I only run my tests once every 3 months. I have to wait for them to grow lol
Yes every time I use peroxide against them it is the most effective and safe way to deal with them.
I just ran another test yesterday after acquiring a tank and this time I mixed a solution of FWE and peroxide to see the results.
It was outstanding!
Lights are off now but will come in with results

mocika · Apr 18, 2016

Can you post picture from you filter socks. Does this mean i must dose every day in next 8 weeks to be sure that peroxide will eliminate whole FW?

twilliard · Apr 18, 2016

After 1 treatment yesterday the flatworm is dead. Waiting to see if any made it.
This tank has no sump just using a skimmer to pull the dead planaria.
So this is a 20 gallon tank full of coral, snails, pods and fish.

What I did is 4ml of peroxide and 20 drops of FWE
That combo is a killer!

Here is a picture about 20 hours later

no stress to anything in the tank.
Did a 4 gallon change today

Psiber_Syn · Aug 29, 2016

Hi @twilliard I have a pretty dense flatworm population these only get on mushroom and leathers they get on the shrooms so much it covers them I don't see them eating anything and I had a coris he are none of them here is a pic to I'd it from really looking to knock these out I feel it's hindering the shroom growth already

Btw I have already went through and dipped everything I could take out in coralrx but there's still tons of them

On a superman rhod

Covering a yuma

On a hammer

twilliard · Aug 29, 2016

It would take a large dose of h2o2 to get these guys dancing.
Catch a few in a cup of tank water. Let them settle down then add .1ml of h2o2.
Do they start to get irritated and swim fast?
Give the cup a slight swirl and do they easily free from the cup surfaces?
If so then you can hit the tank with h2o2, take a powerhead and blow them around. Then you can catch these guys with mechanical means.

Psiber_Syn · Aug 30, 2016

I pulled ever frag and leather I could out and coral rxed them here's my resluts I got a bunch out but know there's more on stuff I can't get out should I try the peroxide now? I don't have a filter sock setup that's prolly not good huh?

scardall · Aug 31, 2016

Psiber_Syn said:
Hi @twilliard I have a pretty dense flatworm population these only get on mushroom and leathers they get on the shrooms so much it covers them I don't see them eating anything and I had a coris he are none of them here is a pic to I'd it from really looking to knock these out I feel it's hindering the shroom growth already

Btw I have already went through and dipped everything I could take out in coralrx but there's still tons of them

On a superman rhod

Covering a yuma

On a hammer

Get out the turkey baster. ha ha

Psiber_Syn · Aug 31, 2016

They are hard to suck off shroom in my tank the dip done well that cup is like half inch full of Flat worms at the bottom they was all dead this morning in the cup fyi

scardall · Aug 31, 2016

Psiber_Syn said:
They are hard to suck off shroom in my tank the dip done well that cup is like half inch full of Flat worms at the bottom they was all dead this morning in the cup fyi

most agreed. It is an art form. Dipping is always they way to go. I have a Yuma that I pull them off more easily than my rhodactis shrooms. I place baster just above worm (1/8") and release bulb quickly.

OneWhoPokesBears · Aug 31, 2016

Long term update: I still hae little to no flatworm activity in my tank after using the method i described before.

Psiber_Syn · Sep 1, 2016

Your method was peroxide then flatworm exit twice am I correct?

I don't have a filter sock to catch the dead ones it would just send them into my refuge and then get stopped by filter pad but I'm sure i would lose most of them before they got to the pad guess I could get a cheap hang on back filter somewhere and drop my water line or raise the durso I whatever works