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Old 12-28-2011, 01:37 AM
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Default What are these weird looking things?!

They look like for lack of better words, huge amoebas. They have a reddish looking head, and rush out of the substrate at night, but you can still see them hanging around in the daytime.
I don't see any detrimental effects yet on any corals or fish, but it looks like its starting to be quite a few. Any thoughts?
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Old 12-28-2011, 02:13 AM
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I can't see them
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Old 12-28-2011, 02:15 AM
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can't see them either
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Old 12-28-2011, 02:54 AM
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OH crap they are red planarias...flatworms? What do I do?!?!
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Old 12-28-2011, 02:58 AM
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Old 12-28-2011, 02:59 AM
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Get a wrasse yellow coris or malenarius or Mandarin.
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Old 12-28-2011, 03:15 AM
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Thanks for the links and the advice so far! Really appreciate it!
I have just purchased a psychedelic mandarin...would that eat them? (I know its sorta like dependent on individual mandarin but I've only read that green mandarins will eat red planaria...is that true? Do I need to get a sixline wrasse?)
My reef tank setup:
running 8 months
90 Gallon
1 regal blue tang
2 false perculas
1 bicolor dottyback
1 psychedelic mandarin
1 blue spotted jawfish
1 diamond goby
2 cleaner shrimps
hermit crabs and snails, 1 x pompom crab, 1 x emerald crab 1 x tuxedo urchin

It just occured to me I have a refugium and that maybe where the red planaria are coming from? Should I get rid of it?
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Old 12-28-2011, 05:05 PM
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Get a wrasse yellow coris or malenarius or Mandarin.
A spotted mandarin to be specific. They would clean them up in no time.
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