spham24 Posted December 24, 2010 Share Posted December 24, 2010 Just found this guy under my pump. Best picture i can get. What is it and is it reef safe? His eyes are near the top left of the body Link to comment
Jacobnano Posted December 24, 2010 Share Posted December 24, 2010 That is a big flat worm. I have seen what seems like a lot of these recently, they are believed to not be reef safe unfortunately. Link to comment
spham24 Posted December 24, 2010 Author Share Posted December 24, 2010 Thanks. Do they reproduce asexually? Should I worry about some more. This could have came with the same new rock that came with a huge white and brown mithrax crab. Link to comment
Bat21Bravo Posted December 24, 2010 Share Posted December 24, 2010 Thanks. Do they reproduce asexually? Should I worry about some more. This could have came with the same new rock that came with a huge white and brown mithrax crab. It's a Polyclad Flatworm. There are several threads going on about them currently. It seems like they eat snails by suffocating them. Link to comment
spham24 Posted December 24, 2010 Author Share Posted December 24, 2010 ThankS guys. Just did a search on them. Clown fish jumped in the back so I had to remoVe the pump to get him. It was under the pump so catching it was easy. It is in my yard now Link to comment
spham24 Posted January 11, 2011 Author Share Posted January 11, 2011 For those of you that have been anxiously waiting for an update, I'm sorry to say the flatworm did not make it out alive. He died in my yard a couple of weeks ago. On a brighter note, this is my 200th post. Link to comment
Zer0 Posted January 11, 2011 Share Posted January 11, 2011 For those of you that have been anxiously waiting for an update, I'm sorry to say the flatworm did not make it out alive. He died in my yard a couple of weeks ago. On a brighter note, this is my 200th post. You just threw it out in the yard just like that? Link to comment
spham24 Posted January 12, 2011 Author Share Posted January 12, 2011 Are you crazy? Of course not. I gently placed him down, wished him luck and parted ways. I figured there were tons of snails for him to scavenge out there. Link to comment
rb1685 Posted January 12, 2011 Share Posted January 12, 2011 Are you crazy? Of course not. I gently placed him down, wished him luck and parted ways. I figured there were tons of snails for him to scavenge out there. LOL Link to comment
Zer0 Posted January 14, 2011 Share Posted January 14, 2011 Could have sold it. People pay big bucks for huge inverts like that. Link to comment
begin2117 Posted January 14, 2011 Share Posted January 14, 2011 It's a Polyclad Flatworm. There are several threads going on about them currently. It seems like they eat snails by suffocating them. i agree. i had a polyclad flatworm a bit under a year ago that when stretched out reached 6inches. he got that big by killing and eating at least 10 snails and unknown numbers of anything he could find for prolly around 1 year or so. while i was desperatly trying to figure out what was killing my snail now all is fine though. i did kill him, as i was told to do so at the time, not realizing that like they said, people would pay good money for a large invert like that... well, too late now. Link to comment
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