7 Good Reasons to Quarantine!!!

[Reefd Up]

About 2 minutes into the freshwater treatment, they started to die - they're mostly disintegrated now.

[UDJustin]

so what your saying is if you get these in your tank alls you need to do is turn it into a fresh water tank and you can get rid of them?

[HUNGER]

sure if it works lol

[Reefd Up]

Um, yeah...maybe something like pig dewormer would work....  Chances are, these guys eat clams (notice how they look like a clam's mantle?) so if you don't have clams, they probably will starve to death eventually........

[HUNGER]

unless they would tru to eat something else that has a flessy skin

[Reefd Up]

Most giant flatworms have very specific diets and usually starve in captivity.  These are probably no exception, but I'm not risking it!

[HUNGER]

i dont blam you

[Vinnbelle1]

When I was a hobbyist, I found some of those bigger flatworms on a coral.  They never bothered clams or any coral.  They lived for many months in my home system.  Probably not all varieties are so benign. Kind of like the Asterina starfish.

I can usually cut the bases off corals if customers want that option.

I found the Potassium Permanganate dip works great on the Monti. eating nudibrachs. 

[Reefd Up]

Vince, where do you get potassium permanganate?  I've heard that's the only thing that works on Monti-eating nudibranchs.  I had them once, but they were on one coral in QT a long time ago...so I just fragged the coral, threw away the base, and never saw any ever again.  I'd like to keep some potassium permanganate on hand just in case. 

Interesting on the giant flatworms.  I'd never seen them before, couldn't find anything specific on them online, so they had to go.  I wish I had some small tanks where I could put interesting critters. 

[lazylivin]

http://secure.sciencecompany.com/Potassium-Permanganate-125g-P6403.aspx

[Reefd Up]

I'd rather get it locally if possible

[Vinnbelle1]

Some Lowe's stores carry it, and that is where I got mine.  You can check online.  I have a huge jug of it.  It was like $25-$30.  You can have some for free the next time you are down.  A pill jar (please bring your own container), or something similar will hold enough to do 100s of dips.  You only use like 10mg of the stuff.  Be aware that it will brown out your montis for awhile.  It took a couple of months to regain the color back.  It really works in killing the eggs, where most treatments fail.

[cyberwollf]

Some Lowe's stores carry it, and that is where I got mine. 

What is it used for? As in what does a home improvement center sell it as?

[cyberwollf]

"Potassium permanganate is a strong oxidizer"

"Potassium Permanganate + Glycerin = Fire"

"Potassium permanganate is often included in survival kits along with glycerine for the purpose of making fire. Another survival use is as a water sterilizer."

Sounds like my kind of stuff 

[ghurlag]

Wes, I like everything you are saying