Alexjoha`s divider aquarium - 190gallon mixed reef

[alexjoha]

Well as mentioned before I have had an issue with flatworms in my tank, I don’t know how I got them but I have my suspicions, and have contacted the person I think I got it from to tell him about it

The type I think I have is Acoel flatworms I haven’t seen them on any corals and they are to tiny to see on the sand bed and rocks. I have only seen them on the glass.

In this picture, you can see one under a microscope dried up.



Here is a little video of them swimming around under the microscope.



I did a test on them and on some coppepods from my sump just to see the effect the salifert flatworm exit would have on my tank. The pods died instantly but the flatworms lived for a few hours under a 50x the recommended dose. So I wasn’t really Shure the medicine would work for me.. :/

The test was done in a glass with 40ml of water and 5 drops of salifert flatworm exit.. they are insanely small and this is the biggest one I could find though…

 

[alexjoha]

Well the big day was finally here for the dosing of the tank :/ I was so scared going in to this since I really didn’t want to kill my livestock.. I pre-mixed 33 gallons of water to have as a backup like the package said. I also made ready a lot of carbon! I don’t know how much but 4-5 large bags and a full deltec reactor.

And now for the scary part! Dosing the flatworm exit! I had read a lot about it so I decided to dose 1.5 times the amount the package said.

After just 5 minutes I could see hundreds of flatworms floating around in the tank! OK! Time to turn on the carbon!


Ok maby I whent a bit overboard with the carbon :O

 

[alexjoha]

So, the day after I dosed the tank I could still see some flatworms on the glass so I does again but I did let it sit for about and hour this time before I used carbon. There were a lot of them floating around in there but nothing compared to the first time so I only did a 15gallon water change this time.

I then waited for 4 days and dosed again still some floating around but I could see that there was more or less 20-30 not hundreds like the other 2 times I did it.. this time I let it sit for about 2 hours.

I waited another 4 days and dosed again with 2 times the does and let it sit over night before I added carbon. There were about 20-30 of them this time to. It’s now been about 2 weeks since I last saw a flatworm in the tank so I hope I am rid of them now

 

[revhtree]

WOOT! Nice job getting rid of the FW!

 

[alexjoha]

WOOT! Nice job getting rid of the FW!

Thx! i hope i don`t need to fight With the FW anymore :/

 

[alexjoha]

Well it`s been a few weeks since i did the flatworm exit and i am leaving the tank for 2 weeks now so i took a few pictures of the coral so i can see the differance when i come back

**** maby you guys would like to tag along hope i dont post to many pictures for you now then

 

[alexjoha]

a few more I need a New camera.. :/

 

[Ljaus]

Thanks for sharing. Fingers crossed those flat worms stay away

 

[alexjoha]

So guys I have some space in my sump for new equipment. Any good suggestions for what I could use it for? Some type of bio media? Nitrate reactor? A.R.I.D reactor?
The space is 20x16