red planaria have to go ?

[biocubist]

my 5 week old tank has developed a nice colony of red planaria.
hard to count how many for sure. but enough to see them right off.
due to the large number of pods i also house i suspect.
i'm led to believe that the planaria should go. bad flatworms.
web search says six line wrasse or treat with chems. i want natural
but think that my tanks too young for fish yet.

any advice, experience, word of wisdom welcome.

thanks all

 

[fanaglethebagle]

How big is the tank? If it is healthy enough for planaria I think it should be ready for a single fish. I would probably go with a yellow corris wrasse though bacause 6-lines have a reputation of becoming tank bullies. I just let my planaria stay living in my nano.

 

[dz6t]

Flatworm Exit, works magic

 

[bigchippa]

If your tank is big enough I went with a Melanarus wrasse and have ben flat worm free since he went in and to work immediatly. I would not use flat worm exit it doesnt always wipe them all out and the one that survive it seems build a tolerance to it. I read that if you hit them hard with the fw exit like 3x recommended dose it works, well that is what I did and boy was that a mistake, threw my system biologicly out of wack hair alge for weeks. Go with a good preditory fish. Chip

 

[biocubist]

thanks for the input so far all.
I'm definitely going with a wrasse of some sort.
flatworm exit doesn't sound like the direction
i want to go.
I've heard a couple different opinions on which
wrasse to use. any more input welcome.

BTW:
29 gallon biocube
1 cleaner shrimp
3 snails
6 hermits
1000's of pods


thanks all