Need help identifying this flatworm

[epleeds]

I just saw these on the front pane of my tank. Anyone know what kind they are. They seem to be all white with nothing else in them. the picture is magnified. they are not that big.

 

[Coral Hind]

They look like the harmless ones I have had. The never reach plague porpotions and mainly come out at night. They are normally seen early in the day when the lights first come one and they run for cover. Faster then normal flatworms. They eat small pods and other flatworms. I actually harvested them from one tank to wipe out a population of brown flatworms in another.

[epleeds]

Kool. Hopefully when I get my wrasses in the tank they will be eaten.

[Incredible Corals]

I had those in my first 55 gallon tank years ago. Added a melanurus wrasse and they were gone in a few weeks.

[426HEMI]

I had one of those, 6 line made short work of him.

[GraffitiSpotCorals]

They look like the harmless ones I have had. The never reach plague porpotions and mainly come out at night. They are normally seen early in the day when the lights first come one and they run for cover. Faster then normal flatworms. They eat small pods and other flatworms. I actually harvested them from one tank to wipe out a population of brown flatworms in another.

 

What do you mean by harvest? Did you just pull them out when you saw them and put them in the other tank? How well did it work?

Edited November 4, 2012 by Piper27

[Coral Hind]

I used a turkey baster and sucked them off the glass in the morning before the lights came. Then placed them into another tank that a breakout of tiny brown flatworms, non red planaria. I had tried Flatworm Exit at high doses with no long lasting results. It seemed a few always survived to repopulate. Once I added the clear ones the population seemed to drop slowly until I couldn't find a single one. I could actually watch the clear flatworms run up on the tiny brown ones and cover them up to trap them. Once the brown flatworm population disappeared the celar population dropped in numbers too.