I understand why some reefers suddenly give up and sell!
 

This is another little rant for me...sorry!

I treated a few months ago for red bugs in my 150g reef...no biggie, pretty easy to deal with. Now, I have Acro Eating Flatworms :cry:....life can get no worse. Anyone have any experience with dealing with them? I have contacted a few guys on RC to get their input...a softy tank sounds pretty good to me right now!

:eek: I had no idea they were even around B.C.. Hope you can get rid of them

me too

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I talked to a friend and he said dwarf crocadile pipe fish or freshwater dip or iodine dip

FW dip an ACRO??? Hmmmm......I have heard that isn't a good idea with acros. But I'll take any advice and further research it...thanks!

A few things I've read:

1) Tropic Marin Pro Coral Cure
2) Levimasole Hydrochloride - a treatment some people use on AEFW with success in their reef tanks (and can be found at feed stores, apparently)
3) The Chelidonura varians nudibranches, which apparently exclusively eat flatworms. Not sure how available they are here/there, though?

One thing to mention is that, in my short reading on the subject, everyone seems to be saying the same thing: none of the treatments get rid of the eggs. Those need to be manually removed/scraped off.

This sucks...sorry :( But good luck.

Also found this:

"Dip the coral in hyposaline water, like 1.010 (or less), and have 10 drops of lugols added per gallon of water. Leave them in the water for 3-5 minutes, shake, and then scrape off any eggs you see. Put them back in your QT, and repeat every few days, and see if the eggs keep reappearing. The eggs you can't get, try to cover them with super glue."

Do you have any idea how you came to have them? Did you purchase any frags from somewhere far away? I have also not heard of anyone in BC having these. This is too close to home and could spread through local frag trading.

i thought that six line wrasses took care of problems like this??

Richard

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read this http://www.canreef.com/vbulletin/sho...=acro+flatworm