Any down sides to the nutibranch or can I just drop him in and let him do his work? Just spent a couple of hours rescaping to accomodate a second frogspawn. Gotta get BIGGER tank! There's just too much cool stuff out there.
Brown Flakes ID Please
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Germanman
My fish are my babies
IMO, it isnt too responsible to buy a nudibranch, or any other creature with such a special and restricted diet because once all your flatworms are gone, it is vertain death. even if you find someone else with flatworms, you never know if they are going to find someone else, or if they will even try. it just encourages the market for these animals that are just dieing in our tanks.
also, they are pretty light and can easily get sucked up by powerheads and such.
but trust me when i say that sucking all up you can see and lowering your nutrients helps. replace yoru carbon more often, do alrger, frequent water changes, skim more, feed less. get some phosban if you can or something. i had a HUGE outbreak of the white ones, pretty much the same thing. without the nutrients in the tank, and with me sucking them up, after a little while, they were all whiped out. just spend as much time as you can at night sucking up them all until you cant see anymore. it isnt as hard as it sounds
also, they are pretty light and can easily get sucked up by powerheads and such.
but trust me when i say that sucking all up you can see and lowering your nutrients helps. replace yoru carbon more often, do alrger, frequent water changes, skim more, feed less. get some phosban if you can or something. i had a HUGE outbreak of the white ones, pretty much the same thing. without the nutrients in the tank, and with me sucking them up, after a little while, they were all whiped out. just spend as much time as you can at night sucking up them all until you cant see anymore. it isnt as hard as it sounds
Germanman
My fish are my babies
he has a point and i did state some of those things in my other posts...but now i feel i should make it clear that the nuti should be a last resort.
I recently renewed my phosphate remover and reinstalled my carbon. Skimmer is running and water tests are all clear. Nutrients must be under control since I have no algae issues what so ever. I agree, purchasing the Nuti, only to have it suffer a slow death is cruel so I will try the removal thing first and see how that works. Thanks for the help and advise! Always appreciated.
If sucking them out becomes too difficult and the rocks / corals they are on are easily removed, you can do a fw or Lugol's solution dip to get rid of the red flatworms. I do this to all new corals after nearly infesting my tank with red flatworms that hitchhiked along with some mushrooms we bought from the LFS. I've also used it on corals we've bought from tanks that we knew were infested with them. No red flatworms in our tank.
