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![]() So your asking about how to QT corals that have flatworms? What kind of corals? SPS, LPS, softies?
For SPS I use a dip with Tropic Marin Pro Coral Cure (iodine dip), and then I treat my QT tank residents with interceptor. I try to treat to avoid three things; red bugs, nudibranchs, and monti-eating flatworms. Last edited by michika; 02-19-2008 at 01:11 AM. |
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This is about acro eating flatworms, so it would only apply to acropora... I was recently told that camel shrimp eat them, just heresay at this point. Anyone have any experience with these?
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![]() I heard that they could travel on other SPS though.
I haven't run into the camel shrimp thing yet. Sorry. |
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![]() I suppose they drift between different colonies to spread, so it's possible that some may land on something other than an acro. Just to make it more fun
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![]() I HAVE Acro Eating flatworms...sad thing is you don't know you have them even AFTER 6 weeks of QT! There are quite a few threads that discuss using Camel Shrimp in your sump, rotate corals through there but not leaving the coral for longer than an hour in the sump exposed to the shrimps as they will eat the coral once the flatworm and eggs are gone. There also another suggestion to remove ALL acros from the tank, scrape off any remnants, and QT them using the above camel shrimp in the sump, and picking off any eggs that you can under a scope.....it is a nasty nasty nasty thing to have. Then you leave the display tank acro free for...well as long as you can but not less than 2 or is it 3 months...can't remember...
Right now I am just living with them..they do damage... ALOT of damage....but....I don't trade corals and am just living with it until I decide that I want to do something.....now Monti eating Nudi's....had those too...NASTY too...! I'd take redbugs any day over either of those.....and so far I haven't actually heard of a monti eating flatworm...just the acro eating flatworm and red planaria flatworm.
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![]() From all the reading I have done, they must have an acro to survive and reproduce
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![]() the only sure fire way I know of is to aquire Dino's (aka brown snot ) after a real short time nudi's,flat worms and red bugs are a thing of the past...
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![]() I ment acro eating nudis, not monti, I clearly need some sugar/coffee or a nap...sorry about that...my bad.
Can you point me towards anything about the camel shrimp? Its very interesting, I haven't heard anything about this before now! |
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![]() Matchika, I believe that I read on the Zeovitt web site that they use Camel shrimp to treat their Acro's. It was around two weeks ago that I read this so my memmory is a little scethchy. I think it said that they keep a tank of Camel back shrimp for just this treatment but it did say that there was a time limmit. (20-30min.)? The danger was that the shrimp would eat all of the flatworms and eggs and start on the Acro.
Hope this helps. Check the Zeovitt site and, maybe you can find the article. I think it was Zeovitt. Man now I have to find, and read it again. |
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