Salifert Flatworm Exit = snailmageddon

[mje113]

After about a week of noticing that the few small frags of zoa's and yellow polyps weren't opening, I decided to do some investigating. I pulled out the frags and gave them a once over and lo and behold, found 2 zoa nudibranches and two circles of eggs!

 

I immediately removed them but figured "where there's 2 there's got to be more". After a lot of reading it sounds like Salifert Flatworm Exit is a good remedy so I drove to the LFS and picked up a bottle. I followed the instructions exactly, dosing about a drop per gallon, then after 30 minutes I put back in my carbon (chemi-pure elite specifically).

 

Now a couple hours later I haven't seen any dead nudi's (though I didn't really expect to), however it looks like every single one of my bazillion (thanks reefcleaners) dwarf ceriths are dead. I'd prefer to think that they are just "stunned" as I've read has been reported others, though it looks like my nerite's and hermits are on a feeding frenzy of these downed snails.

 

If they are really dead I suppose I should remove what I can to avoid a decaying snail-based ammonia spike, but I'm soo tempted to see if any may actually pull through.

 

Any thoughts/experiences/advice before I spend the next 2 hours with my hand in the tank pulling out itty bitty snails?

 

Thanks,

- M

[uwwmatt]

I haven't heard of people using flatworm exit for nudibranches. People usually do FW dips. I would do a water change, and remove anything that died. Quarantine them if you are not sure if they are actually are dead.

[Deleted User 6]

I've only known them to be stunned by FWE. All of mine have always pulled through.

[ednangel]

i used FWE on a tank full of snails of all types not a single loss.

[mje113]

Got the advice from here:

http://www.practicalcoralfarming.com/zoonudis.html

 

And here:

http://www.bluezooaquatics.com/resources.asp?show=15

 

I'm going to do a water change and remove as many as I can. It's unfortunately, but I'd rather the snails die than my zoas.

 

Actually, scratch that. I'm doing the water change but I'm going to wait them out a bit longer. While some have definitely died I've been noticing that the nassarius and hermits are all going for the same few (actually fighting over the carcass) while ignoring the dozens around it.

[mje113]

Ok, for the record, last night around 6pm, about 6 hours after I dosed I started to notice some life in the stunned ceriths (as a correction to my first post, it was not only the dwarf ceriths that were affected, but all my ceriths). Come morning I'd say it looks like about 50% pulled through. It's hard to say if those that died died due to the flatworm exit or from being eaten by my nasarius snails and hermit crabs while they were in their stunned state.

 

To be honest, at the end of the day I'm pretty pleased. I had WAY too many snails and at least it's not me who picked who lives and who dies.

[21093r53]

Ok, for the record, last night around 6pm, about 6 hours after I dosed I started to notice some life in the stunned ceriths (as a correction to my first post, it was not only the dwarf ceriths that were affected, but all my ceriths). Come morning I'd say it looks like about 50% pulled through. It's hard to say if those that died died due to the flatworm exit or from being eaten by my nasarius snails and hermit crabs while they were in their stunned state.

 

To be honest, at the end of the day I'm pretty pleased. I had WAY too many snails and at least it's not me who picked who lives and who dies.

 

 

didnt you pick who lives and dies by using FWE lol