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02-19-2008, 01:32 AM
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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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02-19-2008, 01:56 AM
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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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02-19-2008, 02:04 AM
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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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02-19-2008, 02:18 AM
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acro eating flatworms
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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02-19-2008, 02:40 AM
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Ya, I heard this info was obtained from that site...
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02-19-2008, 05:05 AM
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02-19-2008, 05:10 AM
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An iodine dip will wash off the flat worms. You will have to carefully inspect for eggs. They are small, hard to see & iodine does not kill them. The only way to be sure is to manually remove them. I use a jewlers loop to carfully inspect each piece. If it is an infected colony, I figure it's almost impossible to be sure you've caught all the eggs. Therefore fragging the colony is the best alternative to be sure you get all the eggs.
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02-19-2008, 05:10 AM
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