Red worm like bugs on my Euphillia Coral base.

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just as my description says I have these worm like bugs on my euphillia corals base not on the flesh which is weird. Here is the best pic I can get of them. Can someone help me identify please? Thanks

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I just siphoned a bunch out and I ordered flatworm exit. I'll siphone some out everyday til I get it on Wed. Thanks for the help.
 
Blast all your rocks and siphon all the ones out. Keep doing this. You use flatworm exit only on the few that remain. I had a tank crash because of flatworms. They give off a toxin after dying which can wipe your tank out. Be ready for multiple water changs and carbon
 
Ok thanks.
 
I just can´t understand wy people wants to poison them. They are good live food for a lot of fishes.
Just add an Halichoeres or Synchiropus and enjoy happy fishes. Many other wrasses will eat them too.
 
Halichoeres or Synchiropus and e
Will a mandarin or wrasse definitely get rid of them? I have a 40 gallon tank and I don't want aggressive fish so what is a good wrasse for that size tank?
 
I just can´t understand wy people wants to poison them. They are good live food for a lot of fishes.
Just add an Halichoeres or Synchiropus and enjoy happy fishes. Many other wrasses will eat them too.

I have seen LFS inundated with this FW, covering every surface. Yup wrasses and a couple other fish will gobble up FW, adding a fish is not always the best choice IME, depends on the FW type. Red Planaria can quickly get out of control, you have to be proactive.
 
Synchiropus occellatus, moyeri and stellatus should be good. Do not feed the fishes more then one time a day.
Normally they eat frozen food and flakes and sometimes small pellets. They have to be hungry at least a few hours every day.
I can take some time before they recognize the flatworms as food but in two or three weeks the flatworms should be gone.
I have sold some to my customers and not one has come back for flatworm exit.
They eat other forms of flatworms too. I had an 8 - 10 mm big almost colorless (Looking like the Montipora eating kind but didn´t eat corals)
One fish medium or large should be enough for 40 gallons.
 
Is it a Moyers dragonet? I tried looking up the stellatus but nothing comes up. The more common names of these fish would be great. Thanks for the help.
 
It is a lot of confusion with trade names. Everyone who sell a fish can give it a name. And many do.
For Synchiropus moyeri I have seen Moyers dragonet, Ruby red dragonet and red dragonet. But normally You will get a Synchiropus tudorjonesi and that is what You want and expect. There is another species around looking a lot like tudorjonesi but it has other colors on the ventral fins.
Synchiropus stellatus is also sold as red dragonet among other names. Starry dragonet is most common. I have seen that one too under the name ruby red dragonet.
Neosynchiropus ocellatus is mostly sold under the name Scooter Blenny in the US but it is definitily not a blenny. It is a dragonet.

One of the best traders i Europe sell three species of Chaetodon, punctatofasciatus, guttatissimus and pelewensis under the same trade name, Dot Dash Butterfly.
Thats the other way, giving similar species the same trade name. Its just the color and pattern that differs. But of course they have more trade names.
Just look them up on Google and go to the big American online sellers.

For me there is only one place on the web where i begin to check up new fishes and that is fishbase.org. It is about fishes in the wild and written by scientists around the world with no interest in the trade. If i am interested of a fish after that i check different forums.
 
Ok thanks again
 
Looks like a new frag.so only a few flatworm, fw exit should be fine. Qting new fish takes awhile.
 
It's an old frag but I remounted it. At the time I bought that frogspawn I ran out of coral dip so of course I put it into the tank without dipping it. Stupid. I always dip my corals and check them for bubble algae or aiptasia. I never had any in either of my reef tanks before and I have been in the hobby since 2010. If I buy a coral and I notice it has bubble algae or anything else on it I usually toss it.
 

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