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02/26/2017, 11:26 AM
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I just started up a new frag tank with a handful of frags. Upon closer inspection, what I thought was just routine new-tank algae has turned out to be a whole bunch of really tiny (possibly planaria-like?) creatures.
 Each one of those isolated rust-coloured dots on the egg-crate is alive and crawls around. From what I gather, they're not the usual red bugs that people get because those are much bigger. Does anyone have an idea of what these could be? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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02/26/2017, 11:28 AM
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I think they came in on a zoanthid frag, if that helps at all.
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02/26/2017, 11:36 AM
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02/26/2017, 01:54 PM
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I would go with flatworms as well. They can quickly become a problem if left unchecked. A pair of Blue Star Leopard wrasses did the trick for me in my DT. They laughed at double strength FWE.
If you have just a few, manual removal might work. Get a short length of rigid airline tubing, put a very short pice of silicone tubing on one end and a very long piece on the other. Start a siphon in the tubing and have it empty into a filter sock. Use that to suck them out. If there's more than a few, however, that'll get old real quick.
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02/26/2017, 02:23 PM
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just keep a wrasse in every tank you have and flatworms wont be a problem. i normally keep a 6 line in my frags, i get them for free when people put that little cute active fish in a 20 gallon nano only to find out its eddie Haskell from leave it to beaver
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02/27/2017, 06:59 PM
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Just to clarify, these things are like half the size of a copepod and they're basically covering every surface in the tank. Do you think a wrasse would actually even see them/be able to eat them if they're that small and so numerous?
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02/27/2017, 07:01 PM
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Otherwise I might just dip the frags, sterilize the tank, and start again (I only have 5 frags in a 5.5gal so it's not like it would be particularly hard to do)
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02/27/2017, 07:03 PM
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Actually, they all seem to be congregating around the light. I have like one "spotlight" on the frags,which are more to one side of the tank, and there's no flatworms on the other side where the light isn't focused.
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