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syncro
01-20-2012, 07:07 AM
Are these baby snails and eggs?

Both are roughly 1 - 2mm.

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7172/6729723899_b53f923acd_b.jpg
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7028/6729724279_22eafc159d_b.jpg

Other tank inhabitants:
- 1 x porcelain anemone crab
- 2 x nassarius snail
- 1 x spiny snail (?)
- 1 x stomatella snail (?)
- 3 x blue legged dwarf hermits
- 1 x spaghetti worm
- 1 x bristle worm

Leah
01-20-2012, 11:24 AM
First picture looks like flatworms
Second picture no Idea

toytech
01-20-2012, 05:05 PM
First is bad flatworms , second could be spiny snail eggs . stomellas spawn in the water and the other snails you have lay ribbon like eggs that are very small and white.

syncro
01-21-2012, 11:50 PM
Thanks for the flat worm ID. I've turned up the flow and blacked out the tank. In a few days I'll try and finish them with Flatwork Exit.

sumpfinfishe
01-22-2012, 01:32 AM
First pic-a couple of those evil $astards actually resemble little devils or playboy bunnies :mrgreen: -how ironic!

syncro
01-30-2012, 04:31 AM
I tried Salifert Flatworm eXit in a separate container on a dozen worms. 24 hours later at 50x concentration and fewer than half died.

With more reading I found there are many species of flatworms. This one is probably Heterochaerus Australis or similar. Going to try manual removal. I wrote up what I found here:

http://www.theaquariumwiki.com/Flatworm