What is this spawn

[daniella3d]

I also have 2 mandarins and they don't eat them at all, not interested.

My yellow and checkerboard wrasse sort of eated a little of them but I had an infestation the size of New York. I now try to syphon out as much as I can each day with a pipette and will get a few blue velvet nudibranchs since this is their only food. Problem is that they are expensive, fragile and live only 3 months


This is a real pita to get rid of.

In deed they just plain hate the flow and if you can put it higher it's good, if you cannot because like me you have sensitive animals like tube anemones and alveoporas, then it's not an option.

they are poison and when they die in large number it can poison the tank, fish and coral included. It is best not to use product like flatworm exit as this will make them die all together and pollute the tank and will also kill beneficial pods.

Originally Posted by gobytron

wooohooo...
planarians...

just an FYI, it's actually rare for a mandarin to eat them.
I have 2, and they will not touch my colony of flatworms.

you do occasionally get lucky though, but it's is quite rare from discussions with LFS and experience to find one that will make any dent in a planarian population.


I had a really bad breakout of these worms in my tank, they were literally covering my sps...I just bumped my flow WAY up for a month or so and the population died off almost completely...