Sorry got another question. I have these really tiny brown things on my tank glass and the are slowly crawling towards the top of the tank. What are these? Oh I just started my cycle 5 days ago and I have a couple of pieces of LR.
little tiny brown things..........i hope they are not
these. If they are, they are flatworms, and your going to have a great time with them
(i know these are red, but if they are the same shape and stuff....)
The only thing I have heard success with is something called Flatworm Exit. I'm not even sure what it is but have heard numerous stories if it working. Apparently it will drive your skimmer nuts so be prepared for that.
After doing some reading it appears that it depends largely on what type of flatworm you have. Some can eat your coral, some are just fine. The biggest problem seems to be when there is an overabundant population. Try a google search for flatworm and see what you get. There is lots of info out there I was unaware of.
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Yea I just talked to my lfs about it and he was saying like you how I need to get the flatworm exit and that to do it now because there are different species that are immune to the treatment. He said it would be great now especially since I just started my cycle it wont hurt anything. He said that it was reef safe but the die off and the different species being immune could be a problem.
yes, handle it now..
use flatworm exit and do about 2-4 treatments with a few days seperating each one, one treatment will not get them all..
the common planaria sp is not directly harmful, but they are horribly ugly and will great an eyesore out of your tank...
you want to handle them now before you get fish in there. when you kill them they release toxins into the water that will kill fish and coral, so its best to get them now before you go farther.
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Do a Google image search on flatworms and see if any match what you have in your tank. I agree completely with Renee make sure you know what you are dealing with before treating. It may just be copepods or something else. Very hard to tell withougt a pic.
Looks very much like Renee's picture to me. I would do some research on wet web media or perhaps on this site and see if they have specific information on that kind of flatworm. What I found is that some are bad. Some multiply very rapidly and some are just fine. It all depends on what kind yours are. Do a google image search until you find ones like yours and get the name and do another search. That should get you some semi-solid info. (All things in the hobby seem to be a matter of opinion so that is why I said semi-solid.)
Well I acted really fast today and it worked they fell off the glass and died in like 20 minutes. It worked out well because my nitrites are now showing at .25 finally. They are very small but not copeopods I am sure of that they looked like small frys flatworms except without the red. They were square shape and inched around on the glass. Very tiny
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