Can someone ID please?

[mandarin]

I have no idea what these are I just noticed a few on my sand so I sucked it. They are very tiny this photo is the best I could do not sure how to upload videos

thanks in advance for any input!


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[Doherty]

Little hard to see but maybe bubble algae.

 

[mandarin]

They are like tiny slugs the video I took they are moving around pretty good


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[Doherty]

Are they brown/orange colored

 

[mandarin]

Yes


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[Doherty]

Do they look like this

 

[One Eye]

Flat worms.

 

[mandarin]

Great [emoji19] are they hard to get rid of?


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[Doherty]

Like he said, if so they are flatworms

 

[mandarin]

Thanks guys now to learn about flatworms uhhh


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[One Eye]

Some eat acros. Some are just ugly but harmless.

 

[Doherty]

Others may have other experience with them...... I used to see them occasionally in an old setup years ago..... my clowns uses to pick them off the glass.... they never caused me a problem.

 

[mandarin]

Ok thanks again [emoji1360]


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[One Eye]

For the harmless ones, six line wrasse, coris wrasse and hoevens wrasse will eat them.

 

[One Eye]

For the acro eaters you can use flatworm exit

 

[mandarin]

Luckily I don’t have any acros


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[One Eye]

Then they should not be the acro eaters. Those typically aren’t found on the sand or glass either. They stay on the. Acros for the most part.

 

[aresangel]

They can irritate more leathers and lps. Their irritation can cause the coral to close up and may starve the coral to death via lack of light. It would be best to nuke them with flatworm exit.


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[mandarin]

That’s what I’m thinking I only have a few that I can see in researching it now and it’s crazy some of these tanks with hundreds of them. Gonna nuke them before that can happen lol


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[aresangel]

When you nuke them they can release toxins. That’s why you should have a 10-20% water change ready and a crapload if carbon in a reactor ready to soak up the toxins. Directions are in the box.


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