Aquanius Posted February 14, 2017 Share Posted February 14, 2017 So, I have read horror stories about using flatworm exit, not because of the product itself, but because of the massive amount of poison that the FW give off when you kill them with it. I have been doing my best to stay ahead of the ever growing problem that I am starting to see in my tank, but with so much rock and porous surface I keep missing all of the little buggers. This got me thinking. I don't have any particular attachment to the rock structure in my tank and all but 1 of my corals are not glued to my rock in any way, so they can be moved/quarantined while I dose the FWE. On top of that, I am ok with removing the rock from my tank and dipping/dosing them in separate containers that I can change the water out of between treatments so that I can keep my DT clear. What do you all think? FWE in a separate container for the rocks so I can kill the majority of the FW with it and not pollute my water, at the same time I can keep my corals away from those rocks. I can then rinse the rocks with clean SW, and then move them back into my tank. Afterwards I can dip my corals again, and use FWE on them during the bayer dip, and move them back into the tank. I know that the FW in my sump are going to still be there, as will any in my overflows, but I then can dose a little bit of FWE a week later to kill any that I was not able to get during the dosing in the buckets. This is a lot more work then just dosing my tank directly, but I think it will mitigate the issues of coral death and fish death that happens when using FWE on a whole tank with a good population of FW. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ninjabeaver Posted February 14, 2017 Share Posted February 14, 2017 Are we talking about the red planaria type? I get them in the sump, but I never see them in the display. I hope my melanarus takes care of any Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aquanius Posted February 14, 2017 Author Share Posted February 14, 2017 Yeah, red planaria. Stupid things won't give up haha. They are not hurting anything, but they pester my zoa and I don't want them to do a die off and kill things. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sasquatch Posted February 14, 2017 Share Posted February 14, 2017 It does kill the worms but the phosphate bloom.. You may have algae outbreak in the tank.. Change like all the water several days in a row is my advice.. If you only change half it will bloom Algae soon after 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheClark Posted February 14, 2017 Share Posted February 14, 2017 My experience: http://www.pnwmas.org/topic/34545-diy-flatworm-exit-mishap-tank-crash/ In summary, don't repeat doses. Once or twice is ok, but it builds up in your system. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
danlu_gt Posted February 15, 2017 Share Posted February 15, 2017 How about move the corals and fish to temporary QT and then treat the entire tank with FWE? Once flatworms are dead, do as large water change as possible then put fish and corals back. Then a week or two later treat the entire tank again with FWE to kill flatworms hatched from eggs. Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-G935A using Tapatalk 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aquanius Posted February 15, 2017 Author Share Posted February 15, 2017 My experience: http://www.pnwmas.org/topic/34545-diy-flatworm-exit-mishap-tank-crash/ In summary, don't repeat doses. Once or twice is ok, but it builds up in your system. Definitely, that is why I am thinking of the individual dosing of the rocks | coral | etc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aquanius Posted February 15, 2017 Author Share Posted February 15, 2017 How about move the corals and fish to temporary QT and then treat the entire tank with FWE? Once flatworms are dead, do as large water change as possible then put fish and corals back. Then a week or two later treat the entire tank again with FWE to kill flatworms hatched from eggs. Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-G935A using Tapatalk If I only had a quarantine tank big enough for all of my stuff minus the rocks I would definitely do that. Since I am limited in that regard I thought that if I remove pieces at a time and dip I will get the vast majority of the bugs, and then in a week or two do a regular dosing, but the populations should be quite a bit less so I would not have to worry as much about coral/fish death. I alsowant to keep massive amounts of water changes down to just once on the main tank, plus I need to start looking for an active carbon media reactor so that I can have that ready just in case. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pledosophy Posted February 16, 2017 Share Posted February 16, 2017 IMHO with the amount of water changes you will need to do with using the product, you could just as easily get a small gauge hose and just go through a suck them out for awhile for several days in a row and then add a natural predator to take care of the rest. I had a melanarus that did great with them, but my coris wrasse was the best at eating them. Best of luck to you. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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