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    Posted: February 05 2011 at 9:41am
FWE is great. As others have said if you have a large population do smaller dose to kill a portion of the FW and then do the full dose later. You should always try to suck out as many as you can by hand before you use FWE. As stated before the decomposing FW are what is toxic. If you reduce their numbers before dosing, you reduce the toxins you have to remove after.
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I have a sixline if you want him, he is about 1 1/2"-2" you can take him for 15

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Yes, a one minute dip in fresh water will kill all the flatworms, even the good ones. I probably shouldn't have mentioned the freshwater dip. I do it in certain circumstances only.
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So I have read of people doing a fresh water dip.. can you guys explain how this works? If you dip coral or your live rock in fresh water wont it also kill your coral and other good stuff on the rock?

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Coral RX is what I use, and it always amazes me what comes off corals that you never saw before. I know Aquatic dreams sells it. Its about 25 bucks but its cheap insurance you dont get anything from someone else. Kinda like std's of the reef world lol.
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A huge flatworm can be harmless. Is it eating coral?

There are preventive dip medications made just for this purpose. Flatworms can be disposed of in several ways, including a quick one minute dip and swish in tapwater or a longer dip in levamisole medicated saltwater.
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Laynframe, What do you "dip" them in first? How does that process work? I haven't seen a lot of worms in my tank but I did see a HUGE one today..Good 3 inches wide...  who knows how long... I tried grabbing him but he was on my lr and he just retreated.

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A big thing to do is dip your coils in a dip to prevent them in the first place! I learned this lesson the hard way as well. Now nothing goes in my tank with out a dip first no matter who I get it from.
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try a target mandarin, it's natural & they will get fat on them, plus a nice bonus with a great looking fish, mine has been in my system for years!
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Levamosole Is THE KEY!!!! It is the same as FWE but in the original concentrated form, and a fraction of the price, use it one time and your problem will be GONE period! I have plenty left and will gladly give you some, I live in South Jordan 90th S and 40th W area Call me
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I'm sure they are like mice.  If you see one...
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Originally posted by vadryn vadryn wrote:

Yeah - I would think that once there is an infestation you'd probably need something more serious than a hungry fish or two.  I wonder what keeps them in check in the wild?  I'll bet there are reef crabs that like them...
I only saw a few flatworms when I added the 5 mentioned fish and still had a massive population explosion. I was just trying to show that not all said flatworm eaters will in fact eat them and it does not take long for the explosion to occur.
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Yes, I add a Sixline Wrasse to any of my tanks over 55 gal just for that purpose,
In the wild lots of different fish and invertebrates keep them in check, but there is one other thing - in our tanks the conditions become perfect for a population explosion. Unhappy

One other fish has been known to eat these flatworms. The Yellow Tail Blue Damsel, when hungry will eat the flatworm if they see it move. Smile
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Yeah - I would think that once there is an infestation you'd probably need something more serious than a hungry fish or two.  I wonder what keeps them in check in the wild?  I'll bet there are reef crabs that like them...
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Originally posted by vadryn vadryn wrote:

Correct me if I'm wrong, but wouldn't keeping a wrasse, such as the sixline, be a great preventative method?  I think it's quite possible that when you introduced the pest to your tank that the wrasse would take care of it without you ever knowing what had happened.
 
I was reading about a different wrasse that was considered a great hunter of pests in the tank... what was it?... Have to look it up again.  Anyway, sixline are really cheap.
I agree that you have better odds of pests being devoured without knowing you ever had them......but its a crapshoot if they will actually eat the pests or can keep up with them. I had 3 six lines 2 target mandarins in my 72 and the population still grew to infestation porportions.  Just thought I would tell my experience
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Found it: Melanarus Wrasse
 
 
"One of the best kept secrets in the hobby, the Melanurus Wrasse is one of the best problem solvers for Planaria flatworms in reef aquariums."


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Correct me if I'm wrong, but wouldn't keeping a wrasse, such as the sixline, be a great preventative method?  I think it's quite possible that when you introduced the pest to your tank that the wrasse would take care of it without you ever knowing what had happened.
 
I was reading about a different wrasse that was considered a great hunter of pests in the tank... what was it?... Have to look it up again.  Anyway, sixline are really cheap.
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I used Blue Vet flatworm control from Pets & Such. $24 bucks and it worked like a charm. I had a large population and could see them crawling from places i didnt know i had them. I doubled the dose and siphoned the dead out with a siphon and did water changes as i vacuumed them out. Re dosed a week later to make sure they were gone and all is well. I had zero losses from this product. I highly reccomend it.

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check your nearest Fish store or order it online. Aquatic dreams have them for 24 bucks but since you at riverton you'll probably waster more gas rather than save money
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