what eats flatworms?

[adidas]

whats a good fish that eats flatworms?

[untamed]

I've never found one. 6 line wrasses get mentioned a lot, but the one I had never looked at them.

There's a nudibranch..forgotten the name...black with blue stripe...I can't find one anywhere.

[justinl]

the nudibranch you're referring to is called the velvet nudibranch. Although it chows down on flatworms like no tommorow, DO NOT get one!

They will quickly decimate the flatworm population then promptly starve or die off (they are fragile critters). When they go to nudi heaven, they take along your entire tank as they are quite toxic.

Why do you want a fish to eat them? Is there something in your tank that can't tolerate flatworm exit? or can you not find FE?

[Black Phantom]

I have an absolute ton of them in my refugium but none in the main tank. The only critter I see going after them is my Sergeant Major.
I'll even scoop them out of the fuge and throw them in the other tank. He goes nuts over them
Maybe thats just him?

[untamed]

I don't mean hijack Adidas thread...but I won't add flatworm exit to my tank out of concern for the myriad of critters that I have in there.

This is the first I've heard of a Sergeant Major doing that job. Nice!

[adidas]

i've done 2 doses in a row of Exit and it didn't get rid of them, nor did it harm anything...in fact the worms came back with a vengeance

[Dragonsteeth]

I bought a velvet nudi to eat flatworm at J&L as a flatworm eater. It ate no flatworms and was quickly devoured by hermit crabs. I was not warned of this or toxicity. My $15 lasted less than one day.
Anyway, the flatworms have all of a sudden died off! Maybe due to the changes i have made recently - phosban reactor and activated carbon : wHO KNOWS?

[Neil]

I faced this issue a while ago, didnt want to dose with FE as i dont want to drop anything in there i dont have to. Read mixed reviews between, didnt work, worked fine and nuked everything. People on RC kept on mentioning a Melanarus wrasse- I found them to be quite nice looking fish and they supposedly have great personalities. I couldnt find one around town for the life of me- no one would ship as well. Finally i came across on in ocean city a week ago and snatched it up. It is still in qt but will let you know what it thinks of flatowrms.

[KrazyKuch]

I heard 6 line wrasses are good at eating them!!

[EmilyB]

I'm looking for a leopard wrasse, j&l pretty much said they don't see them around much


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