Leonard Posted February 21, 2009 Share Posted February 21, 2009 I have a 20ish gallon above tank refusium with a sand bed and caulerpa. It empties into a 60 gallon heavy bioload tank. I will post pictures when I re-figure out how to get back on photobucket. Anyway, my refusium has tons of copepods, amphipods, various worms and snails etc. I have always been concerned about the number of red/rust colored flat worms that I get. I never see them in my show tank due to several types of wrasses I think. I was going to treat with flatworm exit as I have done before, but was hesitant as I noticed shriveled up bristle worms last time I used it ( I followed a hobbyists advice and used a heavier dose to kill them all). So I was afraid about killing more than flat worms. I recently heard about the nudibranch that was known to eat flatworms so I purchased one at a local Portland store. He/she immediately moved along the front glass slurping up flatworms. I was curious to see the rate of consumption to see if it would run out of food or if it needed something more than the particular type of flatworm in my system. It has been a week and the nudibranch is quite fat there are still plenty of flatworms for food. It has to work for them throughout the caulerpa. It seems to stop eating and rest periodically whether light cycle or dark. I thought this info might be interesting Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dsoz Posted February 21, 2009 Share Posted February 21, 2009 cool story. Glad you shared. dsoz Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AquaticEngineer Posted February 21, 2009 Share Posted February 21, 2009 What store did you get him from and how much? I need one for my system too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leonard Posted February 21, 2009 Author Share Posted February 21, 2009 Rose City Aquarium. It is a cool looking creature too-velvet black with neon blue stripes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lancecobb1 Posted March 1, 2009 Share Posted March 1, 2009 I got one today, I hope it takes care of the flatworms. They are cool looking things! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AquaticEngineer Posted March 7, 2009 Share Posted March 7, 2009 How much are they? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RoseCityAquarium Posted March 7, 2009 Share Posted March 7, 2009 I have one large blue velvet nudibranch left. A customer brought it back after it wiped out all his flatworms. $22 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CA2OR Posted March 7, 2009 Share Posted March 7, 2009 Great story thanks for sharing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lancecobb1 Posted March 7, 2009 Share Posted March 7, 2009 well mine did some damage to the flatworms but before it could finish my power head did permanent damage to the nudi(sad) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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