Flatworms help!!

[Chase31]

I found a pretty big guy in my tank crawling up the wall (size of my thumbnail (larger Thumbnail)) could it have been a really big snail without a shell (im not stupid so i dont think so) what will eat these (only a 30G) im planning on going out tommrow to go to the store tommrow, what will help me...
thanks alot

[saltwaterseahorses]

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[Chase31]

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i should have taken one but i scooped him out and flushed him pretty quick he had tenticals

[saltwaterseahorses]

lol k well if u find another one take a pic or go on google and look up flatworms and then look at the pics and if it looked like that then it was flatworm also do you have any irritation going on right now like in your hand?

[Chase31]

no but u never put my hand in the water

[saltwaterseahorses]

Ya, because bristleworms can set off a bristle into your hand causing irritation

[Chase31]

i never put my hand in the water, and its not a bristleworm, its flatworm im pretty sure

[saltwaterseahorses]

Ok good

[4lti7ude]

Hey Chase how did you manage to catch him?
I have a big bristle worm in my tank and I been trying to catch him.

Im trying to avoid chemicals, so ive tried a FW dip and it killed everything almost BUT him.

I also tried shooting him with pure salt water but hes real fast so I dunno if that even would do anything...

[Madreefer]

Hey Chase how did you manage to catch him?
I have a big bristle worm in my tank and I been trying to catch him.

Im trying to avoid chemicals, so ive tried a FW dip and it killed everything almost BUT him.

I also tried shooting him with pure salt water but hes real fast so I dunno if that even would do anything...

Thought it was a gimmick. But I got a bristle worm trap from Oceans Aquatics. Actually works pretty good. I've watched a bristle worm approximetely 14" long get trapped by it. I don't know if they sense danger at all but they shrink down to about 2" when trapped.

[Chase31]

put shrimp in some panty hose theyll get stuck in it, but i have flatworms not bristleworms

[Chase31]

do flatworms have shells? like a small flat one?

[Madreefer]

do flatworms have shells? like a small flat one?

No. That might be a chiton. If so not harmfull. For your flatworms if you don't want to use chemicals and have room for another fish try a six line wrasse. They are evil little buggers over time. I have a potters wrasse that helped out in my tank and he's been well behaved.

[Chase31]

i need to get a lid b4 a wrass, and they have little flat shells and anteni like snails

[fishoholic]

i need to get a lid b4 a wrass, and they have little flat shells and anteni like snails

Those are chitons not flat worms, flat worms are fairly small and have no shell.

[Chase31]

but the shell isnt seperated at all.... its see through so you cant see it

[soapy]

Those sound like they might be Stomatella Varia snails. They are harmless. I have tons of them in my refuge but none in my display something in the display is eating them but I don't know what.

http://www.chucksaddiction.com/Hitchsnails.html

[fishoholic]

Oops I was thinking Stomatella snail but writing chiton :redface: Sorry about that.

This is what flatworms look like
http://www.wetwebmedia.com/WormPIX/FlatwormPIX/Flatworm_city.jpg

http://coralpests.com/flatworm.jpg

and this is a stomatella
http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a323/BeesGoneWild/StomatellaVaria.jpg

[Fishward]

those sound like they might be stomatella varia snails. They are harmless. I have tons of them in my refuge but none in my display something in the display is eating them but i don't know what.

http://www.chucksaddiction.com/hitchsnails.html

+1

[Chase31]

it looks like a stomatella