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Flatworm issues
- Thread starter gixxer600
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yikes....sixlines do eat flatworms for sure but depending on the amount of worms you have will determine if that will be effective or not. there is a certain product you can use which i cant mention that will take care of your problem but likely kill all inverts. The worms can be taken care off...how bad is the problem?
Stroid;406348 wrote: yikes....sixlines do eat flatworms for sure but depending on the amount of worms you have will determine if that will be effective or not. there is a certain product you can use which i cant mention that will take care of your problem but likely kill all inverts. The worms can be taken care off...how bad is the problem?
Are you referring to Interceptor?
JennM;406401 wrote: Interceptor is for red bugs.
Flatworm eXit works on flatworms, so does PraziPro. Both have their risks.
Jenn
I was just trying to figure out what he was talking about....sounded very top secret and covert. lol
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i used flatworm exit in my 29 gallon with no ill effects or massive water changes. After using it my inverts did kindove freak out, my crabs started runnin around and all my starfish curled up but no one died. After you use it the flatworms float up around the middle of the water column so there easy to siphon out before they release andy toxins. i did three one gallon watter changes even though my nitrates never moved just to be safe and my sps's were all fine. As long as your quick about it it "should'nt" hurt anything.
dawgdude;424190 wrote: How bad was the maintenance after using FWE? Ive heard horror stories of it nuking peoples fish. Im considering it in my cube but am trying to use natural predators first.
The horror stories I've read of FWE, were all very heavily infested tanks. If you have a light investation, then it seems no big deal, but if you are heavily infested with flatworms, then the toxins are released in mass, and that is actually what reeks havoc in your system. In every bad experience I've read about, a yellowish "cloud" (simarlar to the look of dropping iodine in the water would be) happened shortly after dosing. In these instances, most everything died, sparing some super hardy fish. A downside to trying natural preditors first is if it doesn't work, you're giving the worms ample time to reproduce, which means more toxic matter in your tank when you rid them through chemical means.....
If it were me, I would try the FWE, but I'd move sensitive inverts to a holding tank first, and try to manual remove FWs off of the inverts I quarintined.
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Just use the FWE and follow instructions. Have a reactor to run carbon (not just a bag in the sump) and have a lot of carbon ready to be changed every day for a few days. Consider running a Phosban reactor half full of carbon, I think that'd be enough.
My six line won't touch them but I've had great luck with a yellow coris (he eats anything he can fit in his mouth.....small snails, FW, bristleworms, and I even caught him eating an asterina star). I've never had to use FWE but I have some on hand in case populations grow. I did note when I was dipping zoas in an iodine mix that they died in mass and I dipped a few rocks with similar results.
