Has anyone ever use Flatworm Exit on an sps dominated reef tank?

[coral reeftank]

Hi everyone... I was dipping some of my corals the other day and saw a few flatworms and I was wondering if anyones used this medication on a tank filled with mainly sps and some lps and a clam.Also I noticed some montipora eating nudibranchs on some of my montiporas and was wondering if this medication would affect them too.

 

[Greg]

Planaria flatworms or AEFW (Acro eating flatworms)?

Flatworm Exit will do nothing to aefw or monti eating nudis.

 

[coral reeftank]

do you know any other medications to treat them then.

 

[maidia]

Planaria flatworms or AEFW (Acro eating flatworms)?

Flatworm Exit will do nothing to aefw or monti eating nudis.

+1..If you use FW exit for the whole tank and not correctly will kill all your corals (I read somewhere over RC). It's a little help if you have some wrasses like Yellow Coris or Radiant.

Any picture of the FW?

Good luck Hung and stop buy more SPS until the FW are gone.

 

[Jep21]

+1..If you use FW exit for the whole tank and not correctly will kill all your corals (I read somewhere over RC). It's a little help if you have some wrasses like Yellow Coris or Radiant.
Good luck Hung.

+1 u can also get a melanarus wrasse..

 

[coral reeftank]

i have a vrolick's wrasse Mai. I see him picking at some of them but there is still a lot of them.

 

[coral reeftank]

They did this to my purple dragon eyes last night those buggers.View attachment 9720

 

[BigKev23]

Cosmetus Wrasse's are excellent for eating flatworms as well.

 

[coral reeftank]

I can't get a pic of the FW right now. But I can try and get one later.

 

[maidia]

Because the eggs all over in the tank. I don't have FW so no experience and I don't know any medication that treat the whole tank safely. Ostro or Osco (for got his ID name he in Chicago) over Reef Central got FW in his tank long ago you may ask him over that site.

 

[maidia]

Take all the SPS out and dip them now and put them some where else..

 

[coral reeftank]

I can't do that because I don't have another tank suitable to keep this many acros.

 

[Greg]

Unfortunately, there are no in tank treatments for aefw.
There were some good tries like Levamisole. Seemed to work great at first but eventually killed all sps and crashed the tanks(never fully got rid of aefw anyway). Nobody is even thinking about trying it now. There is a whole large rc thread on it. Started promising, ended disastrously
Also Flatworm Stop seemed promising, but is meant to be preventative, not a treatment. A bunch of people tried it and nobody reported a success.

Removal, dip, and quarantine are the only solution.

 

[coral reeftank]

dang. guess I have to get wrasses that eat FW then.

 

[maidia]

You got Acan and LPS tanks so there is no Acro Eating Flatworm in there (may be), dip all sps and put them in there for temporary. Some said without SPS the AEFW will die or disappear.

 

[Greg]

It is very very rare that a wrasse will completely eradicate aefw. Especially when we feed them food all day that tastes better and is easier to get.

There are wrasses like the melanarus and cosmetes that are well know to eat them. However, obviously not all of them will. Even the ones that do wont eradicate the problem completely on a tank with many sps.

 

[coral reeftank]

I can't do that because in the 180 the lights aren't strong enough, also it would take way to long to transport everything to it any way. It would take almost the whole day to go back and forth carring all my sps.

 

[coral reeftank]

View attachment 9733Here are the best pictures I,could get. Can you guys I.D the,little red snail/nudibranch.