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Posted: October 22 2008 at 11:09pm |
I have this strange looking creature, I am thinking its a shell less snail. What do you think? It is crwaling along the side of the aquarium
Edited by MrViper - November 24 2008 at 4:19pm
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Vipers look cool at a distant, but be careful of the bite..its a killer!
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Posted: October 22 2008 at 11:16pm |
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Posted: October 22 2008 at 11:19pm |
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Is that a good or bad one?
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Vipers look cool at a distant, but be careful of the bite..its a killer!
Still to many cool stuff not enough money
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Posted: October 22 2008 at 11:23pm |
Bad...
I think. I have seen maybe 1 or 2 in my fuge but never the main tank. I think my six line eats them for lunch.
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I dont mean to brag but, yeah it's 6ft long.
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Posted: October 22 2008 at 11:25pm |
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What do they eat?
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Vipers look cool at a distant, but be careful of the bite..its a killer!
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Posted: October 22 2008 at 11:26pm |
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Ive seen a few of these in my sump, but none in my main 125 which does have a 6 line.... this one is in my 28 gal
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Vipers look cool at a distant, but be careful of the bite..its a killer!
Still to many cool stuff not enough money
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Posted: October 23 2008 at 7:17am |
It is a flatworm and to my knowledge this one doesn't seem to be bad. I don't see them in tanks too often but when I do it is in the refugium.
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Posted: October 23 2008 at 7:17am |
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Posted: October 23 2008 at 8:39am |
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This is not a bad flatworm. He is harmless.
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Posted: October 25 2008 at 1:50am |
 Jake Pehrson wrote:
This is not a bad flatworm. He is harmless. |
Agreed! .. the ones you have to worry about are the purple/red ..
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Posted: October 29 2008 at 5:03pm |
I did find a couple of red looking things, very small about 3-4 mm long. I take it these will be bad flat worms. They were on my glass.
I am going to get a 6 line wrasse to hopefully help with those. Will that work.
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Vipers look cool at a distant, but be careful of the bite..its a killer!
Still to many cool stuff not enough money
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Posted: November 21 2008 at 3:43pm |
Okay... It seesm I have more of these than I thought. A friend who was over looking at my tank pointed them out to me. They kind of look like this little guy but are reddish / brown in color.
I was told that they can completly cover my coral and kill or suffocate them. My one large mushroom had severl on iy, took it out did a fresh water dip and OMG there were tons on there
I know my wife has talked to Adam and I think someone else I am not sure. They advised on using flatworm exit.
How bad is this, Is my tank in serious trouble?
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Vipers look cool at a distant, but be careful of the bite..its a killer!
Still to many cool stuff not enough money
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Posted: November 21 2008 at 3:48pm |
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Da** Im sorry that this is happening to you..... :( Good luck!
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Posted: November 21 2008 at 3:51pm |
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Careful With flatworm exit. try to suck them up into a net and recycle the water back into your tank if that makes sense.
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Posted: November 21 2008 at 4:01pm |
suck them out before i puit the exit in?
I am looking at doing this over a 3 day period of time, I was told would be much safer.
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Vipers look cool at a distant, but be careful of the bite..its a killer!
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Posted: November 21 2008 at 4:02pm |
I have been taking out rocks as i can and doing a FW dip. But that is also killing my good bugs and brits
So I am worried about that population. I do have 2 wrasses in the tank now and hoping they will eat up the little buggers
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Vipers look cool at a distant, but be careful of the bite..its a killer!
Still to many cool stuff not enough money
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Posted: November 21 2008 at 4:11pm |
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Are there any good predators for these? I have a 6 line wrasse and another type of wrasse. Anything else that will eat them?
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Vipers look cool at a distant, but be careful of the bite..its a killer!
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Posted: November 21 2008 at 4:36pm |
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if you use the exit it will kill the good bugs as well.
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Posted: November 21 2008 at 6:55pm |
You can siphon all of the ones that you can find and dip the rocks that are most infected. Do this daily until no more are found. Have you noticed if your six line wrasse eats them? If you siphon out what you can see, he will help with what you can't. Cut back on food too.
If you decide to use flatworm exit, you must siphon all of them out first. The toxins they release when they die can kill fish.
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Posted: November 21 2008 at 7:19pm |
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and you must run A/C, and take out all of your crabs and snails or you will loose all of them when you use the exit.
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