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I had a large outbreak last year and didn't do anything. In a couple of months, they got bored and were gone. No problems and no lost or damaged corals, but not all flatworms are the same.

Thanks Marc, I couldn't remember where that article was at.

Here's the link: http://www.melevsreef.com/flatworms.html

Not natural, but with the flat worm exit you should siphon as many as you can out of the tank for several days before treating. The little buggers release toxins when they die, the fewer there are, the less chance of their death killing something else in the tank. I also found when I treated my nano tank several years back I had to use nearly double the recommended dose to kill them all. So if the first treatment doesn't eradicate them, don't hesitate to hit them again with a stronger dose.
Good luck.

Phil

As stated, it's the most natural. However I don't think in an outbreak situtation any fish is going to erraticate the issue.

I have a. Six line and he doesn't eat the flat worms. I know it's the luck of the drawer with that kind of thing. Any other types of wrasses you or anyone would recommend

The most natural way is a 6 Line Wrasse...

About 18 years ago my Mom and Dad went to the Hawaii islands. I told them if they had the oportunity to bring me back some shells to do so. My mother not having any clue what live rock was found a pretty good size rock that she picked up on the beach. She kept it in their hotel room for several days before they departed back home. She told me it stunk so bad that she washed it in the bath tub with soap and water at the hotel before bringing it home. She then placed it in a plastic bag and then went in the suit case. I don't know how they made it past customs but they did. When they got home they brought it home and told me what they had done to it. I imediately rinsed it off and stuck it in my tank and after several weeks plants and polyps started growing from the rock. To this day I still have the rock in my tank. My Mom is now in her final stages or Alzhemiers and I will allways remember her when I see this rock. I will allways cherish this piece of the ocean. They had no idea what they were doing when they picked this up and had no itentions of breaking any laws so I hope this does not offend anyone. I love you Mom.

We had a similar experience with a piece of rock we bought at the LFS. It was with all the other base rock, except it had purple crusty stuff all over that was crumbling off. We brought it home and put it in the trashcan with saltwater and a power head, and it started to grow coraline nicely. Its in our 20 gallon now, you'd never know it was "dead" when we got it.

We underestimate the capabilities of all marine life. Think about it, all life started in the ocean, and is the oldest ecosystem on our planet. Marine life must adapt to survive. And adaptation is its greatest weapon for survival.

Welcome to the exciting world of captive breeding! Take a look around this site, you should find plenty of good info: http://www.mbisite.org/Default.aspx

Feel free to ask any questions that you have.

That's pretty amazing. If you can search for a tv show called "oceans blue" I believe. There is one episode about the red sea. It deals with the temp of the red sea. It's a deadly 90+ degrees. Te corals are adapting to there climate!!!! They use some kind of allege in there skin. Its not zozanthella. I will watch the program tomorrow and post again. It's an amazing series about all the regions of the oceans, there climates, and there ecosystems.

i had about 50lbs of live rock in my garage. dried out, sitting in a cardboard box with no lid. it was given to me and sat out there for around 3 years. i smoke in the garage all winter, fire up the snow blower inside, sometimes use my smoker in there (when it's really cold out). have spay painted in there, welded, glued all sorts of projects together. i put the rock in some saltwater and it sat there for around a month with just a heater and power head. stuff came to life. in the 3 months it was like that my 5 year old was down there several times a day checking.lol
amazing what can happen

The fish died within a 12 hour period. In the morning they were fine and then poof dead. The temp stayed the same. I think it had something to do with the power head I added. It was too powerful and blew the sand bed everywhere. All of my corals are fine and my peppermint shrimp is still alive and kickin. I pray that all the coral survives. My wife isn't going to let me restock another tank.

Sorry to hear of your loss... But I praise the Lord your corals are OK. Must have been oxygen related, as melev said.

i had anthias due this for a couple of days and I concur. Establishing the pecking order.

So I was alittle worried about coming home to the tank today. I didn't know what I would find. But everything seems to be ok to the eye. I have been testing the water sence I got home. So far my ph is 8.3 my ammonia was unclear, nitrite was at 0 and my nitrate was 5. Ugh

Right now I have have a 180 interconnected w/ my 26+ yr old 75. the 180 overflows thru a eshopps dual 1" that I connected to 1.25"PVC (two 1.25"). Unions and ball valves on each end w/ tees on bottom w/ female IPS for boiler drain type valves to drain. There is about 20 feet between the two aquariums. Using a mag pump as described in previous post. Oh at the discharge side in the 180 I have the piping come up and over going down into a tee with those spiraling nozzles that spin by water flow. hope this helps

Use 1" PVC. After you adapt to the pump put a 4" piece of pipe and then a union (glue type), not a coupling....than another 4" piece, than put a glu type ball valve so that you can regulate your flow. all pumps advised for hobby use will be centrifugal type pumps and restricting the discharge has no ill effects on pump. Unoin makes pump easily serviceable.

That took me out of the hobby in the early eighties when the lfs was advising "sterile" setups. That creates vacuum. Hope the reason for this terrible occurence can be found and avoided in the future. Good Luck in Your Search.