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Woke up this morning to find these on my glass, I've never seen them in here before, tank was started with dry rock and all my coral and fish were quarantined for several months, so I'm a bit confused. Are these red Planaria?
Red Planaria or what?
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I have never dealt with these flatworms so this is weird, what should I do? I'm not even sure where they came from as everything came from my other systems and I've never seen them in my frag system.
Ghost flatworms, Aceol or Aceoli or however you spell it.
See the forked tail with TWO TIPS? Red Planaria have a TRIDENT tail with THREE TIPS
These are completely harmless, they just make people worried that they are AEFW (they aren't) or Red Planaria (They Aren't).
A leopard wrasse was all that killed mine. Flatworm Exit didn't help.
See the forked tail with TWO TIPS? Red Planaria have a TRIDENT tail with THREE TIPS
These are completely harmless, they just make people worried that they are AEFW (they aren't) or Red Planaria (They Aren't).
A leopard wrasse was all that killed mine. Flatworm Exit didn't help.
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Oh sweet! I actually panicked for a minute there. I'm still stocking the tank, it's literally only got one nachakyi fairy in there right now as I was having issues with more quarantine, I do have a leopard in another tank but I would like to put it through another qt before it makes it to my big system so I'll plan on that
Yeah, I don't know why Flatworm Exit didn't kill them.. But even a double dose didn't do it. Plenty of them died, but I saw plenty more 'weather the storm' so-to-speak and just glide across the glass like it was no big deal.
After 2 bottles of FWE I decided to go natural... The leopard wiped them out in a few weeks. YMMV, some wrasse will hunt them to extinction, some wouldn't bother. You know how that goes though.
As for the ghost worms themselves... At most they're unsightly, and make people nervous they'll get a pest from you. While technically, they ARE a bit of a pest... The don't do anything but exist and be annoying for existing in the first place. A lot of people don't realize they have them.
After 2 bottles of FWE I decided to go natural... The leopard wiped them out in a few weeks. YMMV, some wrasse will hunt them to extinction, some wouldn't bother. You know how that goes though.
As for the ghost worms themselves... At most they're unsightly, and make people nervous they'll get a pest from you. While technically, they ARE a bit of a pest... The don't do anything but exist and be annoying for existing in the first place. A lot of people don't realize they have them.
I have a strain of red flat worms that is Flatworm Exit resistant. Pig de-wormer did not kill them either. They are in my remote 20g fuge. I drained out 90% of the water. Wiped off all I could from the glass. Tossed the Ulva. Dosed 2x the 20 gallon dose. Let it sit for a few hours with a power head. Dosed that again 1 week later. 2 weeks later, the worms are alive and well. My wrasses keep my DT flat worm free.
