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Post by jess on Mar 4, 2014 9:38:15 GMT -5
I somehow managed to get some flat worms in my tank, wondering if that's what's been irritating and killing my zoas. How do I get rid of them? I sucked out the 3 I seen on a mushroom. What about what I don't see?
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Post by jasonandsarah on Mar 4, 2014 9:54:07 GMT -5
Witch flat worms are they?
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Post by Matt in Lewiston on Mar 4, 2014 10:10:10 GMT -5
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Post by jasonandsarah on Mar 4, 2014 10:17:30 GMT -5
Not a fight I want to participate in!
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Post by ryansweatt2004 on Mar 4, 2014 10:26:24 GMT -5
Are they the small redish brown flat worms? If that's what they are then they shouldn't hurt or irritate your corals. At worst they will shade the light from your corals if they multiply enough. Your best bet is to keep siphoning them out. Most of the time if your tank is clean enough they won't survive too long. In a high nutrient system they can multiply very quickly though. I always try dip my corals now before adding them to my tank just because of the possibility of having these little worms hitchhike in. Sad part is, in a balanced well maintained system, you could have dozens of these and never know it until something goes out of wack in the tank and they start multiplying. If your zoas are dying though I would start with checking your water parameters. Maybe check your tank at night with a flashlight for any critters munching on polyps too. You have LEDs now too right? Some of my zoanthids reacted poorly to the switch to LEDs. Many of my oxides got light burnt even at less than 50% of the light output. All things to consider.
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Post by jess on Mar 4, 2014 11:54:11 GMT -5
They are the brown ones. I sucked out the 3 I saw on the mushroom. Recently some zoas just won't open, and a couple are just turning brownish and dying. The pink sherbet ones from you that were finally starting to grow, rpe, purple puddles, and a couple fire n ice. All others are perfectly fine. I'm using leds but have been using the same ones since setting up the tank. Everything tests fine as far as ammonia,ph, nitrates and nitrites. I don't test anything else, never have lol. I use reef crystals to avoid dosing and having to test. If things look bad i do a water change to replenish lost trace. Whatever it is affects the listed zoas, couple are in one tank rest the other, whatever is it's an issue in both tanks. I do check at night, only critters I've noticed are a crazy amount of pods, bristles, brittles, and those little snails that breed like crazy. I'm stumped. I do have a high nutrient system due to the small size and not having a great way of removing excess nutrients other than water change. I don't do many of those lol, 50% every 2 weeks, with daily top off Sent from my HTC ONE Attachments:
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Post by jasonandsarah on Mar 4, 2014 12:05:39 GMT -5
+1 on some zoa's just do poorly with led transition. Had some do it, Even at the bottom of my tank and still some bleaching when I switched.
Some of my corals have just started to do really good again since switching. zoa's, snowflake leather and others
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Post by oceangirl2009 on Mar 4, 2014 12:10:02 GMT -5
I don't think the flat worms are affecting the zoas, but I know there are a lot of different species, so I might be wrong.
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Post by jasonandsarah on Mar 4, 2014 12:25:27 GMT -5
Is that a lobo right on top of the zoa's?
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Post by jasonandsarah on Mar 4, 2014 12:27:02 GMT -5
It's looks like a lot of your more colorful zoa's are the ones that aren't doing great?
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Post by jess on Mar 4, 2014 14:03:07 GMT -5
Yes it's a lobo, I just glued there a couple days ago. A did some tank rearranging in hopes of finding the issue plus secured some plugs.
I don't think it's the leds, I've had these lights for months and they have been fine under them so sure why would start suddenly show signs of distress. I don't think these leds are powerful enough anyway, allot my zoas are extending so they really tall, never that until i switched these leds.
I didn't know if the worms would bother the zoa or not. The mushroom they have been sitting on for a while now never seemed bothered them. So I don't know what's going on. One of the rpe opened today, the others are still closed. One of the pink sherbet died, the other 3 ate closed tight. Those were one of my favorite to, the color is so deep on those and they just grew a baby ugh.
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Post by jess on Mar 4, 2014 14:04:16 GMT -5
You can see the flat worms the pic with all the zoas, they are the blue mushroom.
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Post by jasonandsarah on Mar 4, 2014 14:13:42 GMT -5
If they are turning brown and dying?... Then it wouldn't be the lights being to powerful that would be a problem, out would be the opposite they wouldn't be getting enough light.
Extending and stretching for light is also an indication of not having enough light. most of the time at least. Witch I'm sure the flat worm won't help that since they to block light and cause corals to close up and get stressed out.
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Post by ryansweatt2004 on Mar 4, 2014 14:17:54 GMT -5
I agree with the above. Sounds like not enough light if they are stretching, turning brown or even shriveling up.
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Post by jess on Mar 4, 2014 14:28:04 GMT -5
The ones in the other tank are extending, the ones in my lps tank are short stems still. The ones in with the lobo never got tall, and not the same tank i found the worms in.
The lps tank I've lost one polyp of the pink sherbet, the rpe were closed, but there are other pe on the same rock that totally fine.
I moved the pe rock into the zoa/mushroom tank 2 days ago. In that tank the purple puddles have been dying, couple fire and ice, and all the Darth mauls i had just got. This tank is the one that they look like they are stretching for light. There's 9 watts on that tank, the zoas are more than halfway up the tank. Not really sure why that wouldn't be enough light for them. This is also the tank found the worms in.
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