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Pharmer Dan
04/27/2016, 05:09 PM
Is this cyanobacteria? It collects on the glass and rocks every few days, It is easily blown off the rocks or scraped off the glass, I have had some cyano lately and been doing lots of water changes.

billdogg
04/27/2016, 05:20 PM
No. It looks a lot more like flatworms to me, but a close up would help.

Flippers4pups
04/27/2016, 05:37 PM
That's flatworms!

slay
04/27/2016, 06:02 PM
When I first looked at the picture I thought you had just fed flake food :P My eyes immediately went searching for Cyano on the rocks so I didn't even focus on the flatworms.

Definately flatworms tho. I've had luck with a product by Salifert called Flatworm exit, but it can be tough on a reef tank (your corals might take a down turn for a week or two, but should bounce back after running some carbon and a few water changes).

billdogg
04/27/2016, 06:09 PM
I would suggest siphoning out as many as possible. IME/IMO, FEE should be used as a last resort, not a first line of attack. You could also try a wrasse. I have a pair of blue star leopard wrasses the wiped my tank clean of flatworms in no time at all

Jah2707
04/27/2016, 06:45 PM
Wrasse . Yep that is what I did. Awesome fish to have for sure

Pharmer Dan
04/28/2016, 04:56 PM
thank you!