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01-14-2008, 04:17 PM
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| | Torch Coral
Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: St. Paul/Woodbury, Minnesota Age: 50
Posts: 1,181
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I just treated my 75g reef for flat worms with Flat Worm Exit. The flat worms died in minutes, lets hope my corals and clams don't exit as well. I followed the directions and did a 45% water change after 30min, a 25% change was recommended. Now I'm running about 2lbs of charcoal. I took my whole tank apart. I had thousands of those little red bast#@%*. My corals all looked shocked. My super tongan snails tried to leave the tank.  _________ 75g reef with Nova Extreme 8 bulb HO T-5 lighting, refuge, Remora skimmer, DSB, Seio powerheads, Acro's, LPS corals, assorted zoo's & mushrooms, Yellow Tang, Maroon Clown, Blue Cleaner Goby , Cleaner, Fire and Sexy Shrimp, Coco Worm, T.Crocea Clam, Derasa Clam
120g FOWLR, 260w Orbit power compact lights, Remora Pro skimmer, 30g DIY Sump/Refuge, DSB,Seio Power heads, Powder Blue Tang, Purple Tang, Flag Fin Angel, False Eye Puffer, Copperbanded Butterfly and a Moorish Idol  | 
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01-14-2008, 04:22 PM
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| | Panda Puffer
Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Tatamy, PA Age: 15
Posts: 2,122
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Good luck! *Wishes RAVEN luck* only prob i had with my snails was when one decided the intake to a ocean runner 3500 was a great place to find algae........ _________  | |
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01-14-2008, 05:04 PM
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| | 3reef Moderator
Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Wethersfield, CT Age: 38
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Good luck! If you haven't done it already, kick your skimmer back on. | |
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01-14-2008, 05:05 PM
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| | Giant Squid
Join Date: Sep 2007
Posts: 3,346
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Good luck!!! Down with the flat worms... | |
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01-14-2008, 08:30 PM
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| | Torch Coral
Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: valencia,pa. Age: 34
Posts: 1,151
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it worked great for me with no bad side effects.the lfs guy said it sometimes needs done several times but it worked the 1st time for me.i recommend treating every new coral before it goes in your display tank
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55 gallon reef with 4x54 watt t5,29 gallon sump,red monti cap,1blue echinophyllia,trumpet,red lobo,2 toadstools 1purple and 1neon,gsp,xenia and yellow xenia,red ,many mushrooms,2 giant frilly shrooms,cabbage coral,yellow polyps,many zoos,1 orange and one neon green nepthia,duncans,cladiella | |
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01-14-2008, 08:37 PM
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| | Torch Coral
Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Baltimore, MD Age: 47
Posts: 1,163
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Wise decision. I dip all new corals with Tropic Marin Pro-Coral Cure...It has worked fantastically for us...  _________ 72 gallon bowed 150lbs LR 60 lbs LS
2 Percs
1 Chevron Tang
Hippo Tang
Six Line Wrasse
Coral Banded Shrimp
Cleaner Shrimp
Starry Blenny
4 Lyretail Anthias
Long Polyp Toadstool
Montipora
Long Tentacle Anenome
Short tentacle plate
Pulsing Xenia
Green Star polyps
Frogspawn
29 gallon
2 Clown
1 Coral Beauty
1 Fairy Wrasse
24 FOWLR
Dwarf Lion
125 gallon African Cichlid Tank http://home.comcast.net/~pizzal/index.html 
"The more you learn, the more acutely aware you become of your ignorance" | |
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01-14-2008, 11:59 PM
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| | Vlamingii Tang
Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: joliet,il Age: 41
Posts: 1,891
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flatworms are weird, they will be in the refugium and not the main tank. if you up your flow in the main tank it will make them want to go to the refugium with low flow. flatworms go in spurts, so another dose may kill the eggs.
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01-15-2008, 12:42 AM
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| | Feather Star
Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Groningen, The Netherlands Age: 25
Posts: 756
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Yeah! Good luck! As Annick suggested turn on the skimmer! 
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01-15-2008, 06:05 AM
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| | Stylophora
Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Manchester UK Age: 24
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i was told dragonets and scotter blennies love to eat flat worm! At least thats how my lfs deals with it _________ You will never know whats in my tank as i can only type 15 words  | |
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01-15-2008, 06:14 AM
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| | 3reef Sponsor
Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Va/Ct
Posts: 4,270
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I have helped friends to deal with these many times trick is once you see them treat the system when their numbers are small. Reason being is 1. they will not go away or get any lower in their numbers , But will only increase in their numbers.
2. less of them you have less toxins if any will be released. 3. run a good carbon and crank the skimmers back up and change carbon every 4 hrs for 3 times in a series. Then change the carbon again in 24 hrs then 48 hrs and then the system is good to go. Key is kill them at fisrt sign of a single one..
This treatment has never harmed anything I know of in any system I treated .. _________ Some of the world's greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible (Doug Larson) | |
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