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07/11/2006, 07:24 PM
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is this a flatworm?
is this a type of flatworm? if so are they bad?[IMG]
 [/IMG] [IMG]  [/IMG] [IMG]  [/IMG] these are the best photos i could get |
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07/11/2006, 07:44 PM
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yes and you want to get rid of it but from the looks of it you already have it in a QT tank.
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07/11/2006, 07:55 PM
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actually its just in a film box and unfortionately theres one about 5 times bigger in my display. SO THE HUNT IS ON.......!!!!!!
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07/11/2006, 08:00 PM
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I had one of those but haven't seen it in forever. It is a polyclad flatworm. They supposedly can eat snails, but I never had anything disappear and the flatworm was about 5" long!!
Crystal
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07/11/2006, 08:03 PM
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HAHA, I FOUND THIS GUY WRAPPED AROUND A SNAIL AND THEY HAVE BEEN DYING OUT FOR SOME REASON. IT LOOKS LIKE THEY JUST ABANDONED THERE SHELL IN THE MIDDLE OF THE TANK. AT LEAST I NOW KNOW THE CAUSE.
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07/11/2006, 08:04 PM
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LOL! Guess that explains that!
 Crystal
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07/11/2006, 09:54 PM
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hey were the lights on when you found it? i wonder if you got it from the polyp rock i gave you, cause theres about a 6" one in my overflow that i've seen twice. also theres a similar one in my 40. eric
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07/11/2006, 10:01 PM
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Exterminate with extreme prejudice.
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07/12/2006, 10:43 PM
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the lights were off when i found the one in the picture. and the bigger one i saw the other day spread across a small pile of snail shells i hid behind a rock. it looked like a moving carpet!
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07/12/2006, 11:02 PM
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Here is a good website for Marine Flatworms, very interesting...
MarineFlatworms.com Hope this can help someone later on...
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07/12/2006, 11:49 PM
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sweet website. i think this is my guy...
http://www.rzuser.uni-heidelberg.de/~bu6/flat0526.html so far that was the closest image i could find of it. |
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07/12/2006, 11:57 PM
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Glad you liked the site, I have found it to be very informative
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