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aferland66 02-06-2013 09:41 PM

Need help identifying this
 
Hi all, I was cleaning my sump today and found these guys crawling all over the bottom of my container I use to carry all my stuff from the aquarium to the sink.

Anybody know what these are? They seem to be soft bodied with 2 little tails at the end.

https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-W...dentified1.jpg
https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-n...dentified3.jpg

TY

jagermaier 02-06-2013 10:38 PM

Kind of looks like a stomatella snail, if it is it's harmless...

waynemah 02-06-2013 10:44 PM

Looks like a type of flatworm to me.

toytech 02-06-2013 10:50 PM

Sad to say i also think its flatworms ,some are ok some get out of hand .Ive had problems with the dark brown ones reaching plauge perportions.

mrhasan 02-07-2013 12:29 AM

Flatworm.

http://www.ronshimek.com/flatworms.html

Look at the image located at 1/3th of the link.

HaZRaTTy 02-07-2013 04:03 AM

Looks like a Flatworm to me as well, I would have to better look into the biology but if it has 2 tails then its more likely splitting.

asylumdown 02-07-2013 05:14 AM

Depending on what it eats or how quickly it multiplies, it might become a problem. When my tank was first set up I developed an overwhelming plague of the little red/rust ones. They didn't seem to bother anything, but man were they horrible to look at. They were so think on some rocks I actually thought they were coralline algae.

Look closely at your tank and see how many of them there are, and then monitor them closely for numbers. The ones that aren't directly harmful can still crash a tank if enough of them die all at once, as some of them release toxins when they die. I'm pretty sure flatworm exit works against all flatworms if it gets to a point where they're a real problem, just be sure to follow the directions.


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