Springeri Damsel for red flatworms?

[VirginiaReefer]

29 gallon. mostly softies. small tomato clown and medium fatty royal gramma. i have a red flatworm problem. i saw that using flatworm exit they will all expire for the most part minus eggs but will release a toxin into the water so you have to do additional water changes and run carbon etc. I was going to see if its worth just doing flatworm exit in a bucket with the rocks individually and then shaking them off, rinsing maybe in another bucket of SW and then putting back in tank to help? i just got a springeri damsel and was wondering if anyone has ever used them for flatworms and if they actually helped at all? Thanks in advance for any help/experience/advice.

 

[ptrahan]

Didn’t work for me for red planaria. FWE worked. Manually removed as many as I could before first treatment. No losses of fish or inverts. Removing individual rocks and treating them will not be effective. Many more that you cannot see. Water changes and carbon

 

[kevgib67]

Wrasses such as 6 lines will eradicate them.

 

[Midrats]

I've never had a springeri, or any other Chrysiptera damsel that didn't eat them. FWE never worked, only temporarily knocked them back, and required stronger and stronger doses each time, ultimately killing lots of the micro fauna in the tank.

 

[VirginiaReefer]

Wrasses such as 6 lines will eradicate them.

Had a 6 line. He was too rude to the other Inhabitants so he was removed

 

[Mark Goode]

Wrasses such as 6 lines will eradicate them.

They can't eat them fast enough once the wretched things get established, unfortunately.

 

[VirginiaReefer]

They can't eat them fast enough once the wretched things get established, unfortunately.

Ya I'm trying to do as much as I can without chemicals first

 

[Rmckoy]

The only for sure livestock is the blue velvet nudibranch .

I’ve tried springerii damsels , spotted mandarin , Mel wrasse , six line wrasse and I don’t think they were able to keep up with eating them fast enough .
I added 2 blue velvet nudi and the flatworms were gone

 

[Rmckoy]

I refused to use chemicals . You can manually siphon them out to try controlling their numbers .