Euphyllia Eating Flatworm? How to remove them from Torch Coral!
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Euphyllia Eating Flatworm (EEF), it is finally my turn to encounter this reef aquarium pest that takes down Torch Corals! Thankfully, once you know that they are in your tank, they are supposedly relatively easy to remove the the system, thanks to their specialty diet of Euphyllia (some reports mentioned that they may target other LPS corals, but so far I have only seen them on my Torches). The tricky part is that these PolyClad's eggs are not affected by coral dips, so I will have to stay vigilant and dip these Torch Corals for a few months in a row to make sure I get every last of it.
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Timestamps:
0:00 First Look of the Euphyllia Eating Flatworm
1:25 Close look of the OG Mother of all Euphyllia Eating Flatworms in this tank, probably.
2:37 Simplicity Coral Dipping Container
3:21 Dip I am using (PolypLab Reef Primer)
3:39 Dipping the Indo Gold Colony (lots of Flatworms!)
5:56 Aquarium Supply Online
7:08 Continuing the Indo Gold Colony dip
7:42 Dipping the Wild HG Torch
8:23 Dipping the Sun God Gold Torch
9:47 Dipping the New York Knicks Gold Torch Colony
13:03 How the Torches look after the dip
13:46 Final Thoughts
14:49 Four Weeks Update
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You chose the perfect name for your channel so when things like this happen, it's the perfect failsafe! lol
Heck yeah, #1 reason I call this channel the Inappropriate Reefer, lol.
Glad to see your tank wasn't a complete loss. 👏🏻👌🏻🙌🏼
You are such a wealth of knowledge for newbies in this hobby (or those who dream of it, like me). Thank you for sharing your experiences, both good and bad.
I can see why the torches were mad. They look much better now since you dipped them. 👌😜
I’ve lost 2 torches, about to lose a third… after watching this video I was able to look and find my mistake. Thank you for your transparency, it might have saved this last torch of mine
Thanks for the video. I didnt realize you were still making videos!
I try to still squeeze one in each month 😬
Hi Reefer! It’s Beth from todays WAMAS meeting. I will be asking more for more advice very soon…I really scored a lot of corals in the raffle. Hope to see you at reef-a-palooza! Gotta go dip corals! See ya!
Damn brother you are just not catching a break! Little acro crash and now flat worms! At least they don’t directly kill corals but damn if they don’t multiply first. Flatworm exit is the bomb. I dose once and done and that was years ago. I had some bigger ones living in the head of a nice torch as well. Watching one of them squirt out of the head to this day gives me the creeps. There are some nasty nightmare inducing shit in the ocean that’s for sure! Love the vids keep ‘em coming man, so cool to see a notification that you have dropped a new video. I know it’s a pain sometimes to make but definitely worth every min spent.
At first i wasn't sure but I really like your new format long videos , the first flatworms dip i ever did I had these flatworms what a pain , good luck !
Thanks! Trying to fine-tune the length to not be too short / long; glad you’re cool with it! And I’m bunkering down for a battle with these buggers!
beautiful tank!
This will be my day tomorrow. Thanks for the video 😥👍🏼
i got rid of these pretty quick with my yellow coris wrasse, but i also was very vigilant about dipping as well as scraping/removing eggs every 4-5 days. Mine went after torches, frogspawns, hammers, and octospawns.
I need the asterina secret now!! aha great video. Can believe how tall those torches are
Hey brother love your videos and your honesty. I had a question? I have a orange blue tip fungía plate coral that is getting tissue loss can you help with this
You gotta make sure you scrape off the eggs as well, if not you gotta dip it probably like 2-3 weeks in a row. I would probably dip the hammers and frogspawn as well, although not as common the polyclad will eat those too
I've had these target torch coral exclusively, eating the flesh where it meets the skeleton and laying eggs as they did it. That white "dot" in the middle of an otherwise translucent body is what seems to ID these blighted things. Full round of dipping for all torches with a scrub of the skeleton with a soft brush. I tried Flatworm Exit, it definitely put a dent in the population but I'd rather go to basically anything else. Sixline and Melanarus probably helped, but I would wanted to try a blue velvet nudibranch which eats flatworms EXCLUSIVELY. Harlequin shrimp are to asterina what Blue Velvet are to flatworms, pros and cons. That said, that's a LOT of flatworms, that your torch heads were not completely pissed is a very good sign.
Nice vid! Do you have any wrasses in the tank?
Cheers,
Chris
Just some friendly advice. I noticed that you were using the same hand to remove the torches from DP and placing in dip, might wanna use both hands to avoid getting the dip into your DP. Awesome video.
looking forward to the asterina video. The asterinas in my tank demolished my coraline algae and I would love to get rid of em. I bet you picked up some harlequin shrimp!
Doesn't he have a melanurus wrasse? I thought that would eat shrimp
Have you ever tried lanthan to get rid of flat worms?
It’s usually used to reduce phosphate very precisely, but flat worms seem to react very sensitive to even a pretty low dosage if you don’t want to reduce Phosphat significantly.
I’ve got rid of a large population with have of the recommended dosage after dosing it once.
I use reef primer too
Usually just a fresh water dip and the flat worms drop right off very surprising
scrape the orang eggs clutch off too, I was battling with these guys months ago
Yes sir, I quickly figured out what those were and made sure I scraped them all off as I spot them!
Both my hammers are sulking for no apparent reason.
Time for a dip!
I just got rid of all my corals and now Iam STRESS FREE at least from that hobby, did it for 30 years.
Where did you buy the frag rock the house the TORCHES?
what is the incubation period of the eggs?
You may have seen it Polo's Reef visited someone in a video who blew flatworms of his corals with RODI water. Just saying :p
Tank looks very nice ! Curieus about the Asterina solution ...
Interesting, a few people mentioned RODI water as well, I will give that a try, esp if it could be not as stressful to the corals. Although, I'd prob still want to bring the Torches out to dip, since I am not confident that my wrasse is touching these ones.
can coral be dipped in freshwater, as long as temp and pH is close to their saltwater? it would definitely kill any saltwater organisms due to osmotic shock, or at least really get their attention
hey dude. is your wrasse not eating the flatworms anymore?
It may have been easier to use flat warm exit. I had an issue with flat worms but they weren’t euphyllia eating flat worms. I think they were just regular ugly flat worms and I used flat worm exit for six weeks to make sure all eggs as they hatched were killed also. Did not need to remove any of the Coral‘s from the tank. Just put the flat worm exit in the tank.
Metronidazole kills them and their eggs....
Also funny hearing the focustronic stepper pump (sounds like the Alkatronic) running a test in the background
Metronidazole kills the eggs as well?! OK I am off to do some reading -- thanks!
HA! Indeed, the comforting sound of an Alkatronic test. 😉
I just dipped my hg torch yesterday and removed properly about 100+ eggs on the skeleton, this thing is horrible😅
YES they do eat zoas for sure👍🏼
How do you like the AI Blaze?
I have been curious for a while, where did you get the light mount for the main display?
The main structure is the Ecotech Radion's RSM hanging mount. The AI Blade mounts came from AI, it's their prototypes I believe and screws right into the Radion's screw holes.
@@InappropriateReefer did you have to buy an extra piece to connect from RMS mount?
Does revive also work?
where did you get the rock work for the torches ? it’s so cool how you still have them on the plug and you just pull them out the rock
Shouldn’t you make a separate batch instead of dipping in the same solution with dying flatworms over and over again. Good to wear those gloves.
You're right, I probably should have after that second session with all those flatworms fell off of that colony -- thanks for the heads up on this, I'll keep this in mind. The subsequent sessions did not yield much, if at all, so I felt it may be OK to reuse in those cases? (just a guess though)
It looks like you have vermitted snails on the stock Or base of your torch.
Interesting that the wrasse doesn't eat them?
Maybe he is already keeping the population sort of in check? Or maybe mine is just too lazy / too well fed, lol.
I lost a few hammers to those guys sneaky little fellas
Sorry man, I would have been in the same boat if not for my sharp eyed reefing buddy
“We’ll find out on the next video” 😢
Does your tank not have any Wrasses????
they go everywhere at all euplilias i lost them all...
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Looking into this, thanks for the heads up!
Give Vinny a call. He'll make sure the coupon is applied!
How long did it take for your "jonny bravo" colony to grow out?
I have had a hammer for 4 months now and it still looks the same as the day i brought it
Better water flow. I've had a 2 headed hammer coral for 2 years and it never grew, but I didn't mind. I added another power head to my tank to get rid of some dead spots and it happened to be pointed towards my hammer. Less than a year and it got taller and grew 3 more heads. My SPS really kicked off as well.
@@Arborpress thanks for the tip. I'll adjust the flow and track progress over the next month.
That particular Torch grew from frag to this (I fragged off about 6 heads in the span) in about 1.5 years. It did take awhile for the frag to get comfortable and start growing; the growth does get exponentially faster as you have more heads to split at the same time. One thing I may try to do if I want to coax a coral to grow faster is to target feed them consistently (but don't over do it!)
@Inappropriate Reefer wow that's a lot of growth! Well done. I will keep that in mind, been feeding a little excessively lately to raise the nitrates (they are reading zero at the moment so I have a dino outbreak)
@@philip91816 Sorry I lied. I double checked and it looks to be around 12/2020 when I got it. So almost double the timeframe I gave. More reasonable?
Time to get a Six Line wrasse? :)
Haven’t watched the video yet but Melanarus wrasse are by far the best worm / flat worm eaters I’ve come across over the last 20 years of reed keeping.
My Melanarus must have been fed too well in my tank, lol! Or maybe the infestation would have been worse if he is not around.
Tell him he is a bum lol! Good luck!
a toothbrush to go over the skeleton would get those off that dont fall off...
Do you ever dip with flat worm exit ?
Say instead of a coral dip
I did not since from what I read, Flat Worm Exit does not work with PolyClad
Just use potassium chloride. Cheap and safe.
30gram mix withv5 litre salt water.
Do you have a wrasse in your tank that would eat flatworms?
I have a decently sized Melanarus Wrasse that has been in the tank for more than a year. Supposed to eat Flatworms...
@@InappropriateReefer yeah I’ve heard wrasses can get spoiled and not want to do their duty’s all the time hahaha. Just curious if you had one! You should make a video soon on the fish you have! Be cool. You don’t talk about them as much anymore these days haha. But love every video! Definitely my favorite reefer channel! 😁👍🏼
What is the product you use to glue down your frags onto rocks?
Usually just super glue gel of all brands, and set quickly with Instaset. for larger pieces I double it up with underwater epoxy for structural support
Guarantee it's in your hammers and frogspawns. That's my experience.
Should've scraped those eggs off!!!
wooohooo im numba one
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I think someone had you beat just by a tad 😆🙏
Shit that looks so augly flat woms
Get a melanarous wrass
Your funny you've been in the reefing hobby for awhile. Yet your doing things knowing that it can cost you a pretty penny in big loss of corals. No not pissed off, you mean they are stressed out.
Curious, how did you treat Euphyllia Eating Flatworm without dipping your torches?