Mandarin vs. flatworms

[ScubaSteve]

I tried a 6-line.. wouldn't touch them even if its life depended on it and then he kept trying to jump out of the tank, so into my friend's nano he went. I recently moved the tank and was able to make a serious dent in their population in the process but there is a small population of survivors and I want to a) get rid of them or b) keep them under control.

Good to hear that a green mandarin will eat them (likely it's a 50/50 chance they do), so I might give one a try while I rebuild my pod population ('pod rockpile, soon to be sump/fuge, etc).

And I totally agree with you on the yellow tail blue damsels. I think they are only second to my maroon clownfish in terms of "fish that are complete a**holes".

[Doug]

Yea, its about a 50% chance they will eat some. I dont recall if the psychedelic mandarin is better than the green but mine was a standard green.

[whatcaneyedo]

My green mandarin eats them. However I barely had any before adding it so I cant say whether it has made much of an impact or not. All I know is that I used to be able to find them if I looked hard enough but now I cant.

[Frenchie2]

I got flatworms and got a yellow wrasse and psychedlic mandarin. My yellow wrasse did a fabulous job and I suspected the mandarin had something to do with it too as he is getting fatter and fatter (I don't even feed it - he feeds on copepods and probably flatworms). My yellow wrasse jumped out the boat recently (through egg crate cover, can you believe it), and I found the population of flatworms increasing quite a lot. So, I believe the mandarin helps a bit but definitely the yellow wrasse did an outstanding job!