Dosed flatworm exit...

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Managed to order a couple of boxes from J&L. I was nervous about dosing it because I was pretty sure I had a big flatworm problem.

I had no idea just how right I was! I dosed enough for 375 gallons (approximately my tank volume) and within a minute it looked like the sacking of rome in there. I've never seen anything like it. There must have been hundreds of thousands of them. They came rising from my rocks in stringy, mucousy sheets, it looked like my tank was actually on fire. I have a coraline algae in there that is the same colour as the flatworms, and wow, I have way less of that coraline than I thought. Whole rocks that I thought were covered in coraline were in fact covered in continuous carpets of flatworms.

I did this now because all my fish are getting treated for ich in a separate QT, and so far it looks like the only collateral casualty is one snail. Only one coral has retracted it's polyps, and everyone else is business as usual.

I've got several pounds of carbon right in the filter bag, and as soon as I don't see any more bodies flying around I' going to dump it, change bags, and add fresh carbon.

My oh my that stuff is effective.