What eats flatworms?

[Reef_Ready]

Not that I want to start another Flat worm exit thread (there are enough of them on RC), but I used it a couple of months ago. It worked for a while but now they are back with a vengence. I think it works better than anything else out there, but not 100% effective by a long shot. As Doug pointed out it didn't seem to have any ill effects on the live rock, coral or fish.

[Chad]

Well maybe I will try it out.. like I said its in my curing live rock QT. So.. I am in no rush. But I don't want to waste the life that is on there right now.. I will try that flat worm exit thing..

Thanks everyone

Chad

[IJC]

I've got quite a few flatworms in my tank now - so far they seem pretty benign though - what kind of problems can they cause?

[Mak]

Originally Posted by StirCrazy

how long has your tank been flatwork free Mak? I have seen others that thought theres did also but down the road they came back.. not bad but they were there.

Steve

Steve, my tank has been Flatworm free for maybe 10 months or so. I noticed within a week, the numbers of Flatworms were only 1/3 to 1/2 the population and after a month I could not spot a single one...and still can't . Every two weeks at waterchange time I would syphon out a good few hundred .

[ganowicki]

I bought "flatworm exit" and it nuked em. not a sign of any flatworms anymore.

[christyf5]

Right on Gord! I'm glad to hear it worked for you

[chwkreefer]

Ditto, I found Flatworm exit to work fine. I had a minor flatworm problem about a year and a half ago. My tank didn't experience any adverse effects from treat with FE, however, I had a very low population of flatworms. I understand the toxins released from the death of large flatworm populations can lead to the adverse effects in the tank.

Also, before I used FE I introduced 4 green chromis to my reef. Any time I would use the turkey baster to blow the flatworms off the rock, two of the chromis would follow my turkey baster and would eat as many flatworms as they could catch. It was kinda cool.

But yuck, flatworm breath, how can anyone eat those things? ever smell your fingers after mashing some of the little critters against the glass? absolutely disgusting smell. . . . not as bad as a rotting snail though. That to me takes the cake.

Originally Posted by ganowicki

I bought "flatworm exit" and it nuked em. not a sign of any flatworms anymore.

[Chad]

Originally Posted by chwkreefer

ever smell your fingers after mashing some of the little critters against the glass? absolutely disgusting smell. . . .

This reminds me of a video on "america's funniest home video's" Where a monkey scratches his bum then puts his finger to his nose and smells it and falls off the tree. My question to you is, why in the world would you want to smell your finger after squishing a flatworm

http://members.shaw.ca/cmcd/Monkey.mpeg

a link for anyone who wants to see this.

Chad

[chwkreefer]

Hey Chad, that clip was funny. I pretty much had the same reaction as the monkey. To answer your question, I guess I was curious.

[BCOrchidGuy]

It's like when people find something old in the fridge, like sour cream, you look at the expiry date, wow 5 months ago, and what do most do, they open it to take a look...

Doug