Red planaria

Haha, I love this hobby so much...  All of my fish are in QT with ich again and now I have a sizeable red planaria infestation.  I really didn't notice these little guys until I put my fish into QT the first time, but they disappeared as soon as I put my fish back in the tank, so I didn't think much of it.  I think my longnose butterfly found them tasty.  Anyway, now that he's back in QT they're starting to take over.  I think they really like the reef chili I've been feeding my corals.
Does anyone know of a good fishless solution to this?  I've read that sailfert makes Worm eXit, but I've seen cautions about using it in a reef because the planaria release toxins upon death.  I'm looking for some guidance on this from someone who has had to deal with it and don't want to kill my inverts and corals in the fallow display tank /DesktopModules/ActiveForums/themes/_default/emoticons/sad.gif

 

Yeah, I'm going to try to suck as many out as I can and then treat the tank before I put my fish back in.

 

The tank is a 120 with a 55 sump. I didn't QT a powder blue tang I got and it gave ich to my whole tank. During the course of the month long QT the first time, the powder blue died and caused a giant ammonia spike in my QT tank so I had to transfer all of the fish back to my display tank. Probably not a good idea since it was a really stressful situation. Well, after 3 days the blue hippo had ich again, and the the clowns got it 2 weeks after that so they are back in QT, but now I'm going to leave the display fallow for 8 weeks. The tank has 2 clowns, 3 chromis, a blue hippo tang and a longnose butterfly fish. Params are all excellent, 0 for everything (Amm, nitrite, nitrate, phos) 420 calc, 4.0 Alk, 1.026 salinity. The corals all look great, so I'm not sure that tank params are the issue. I think I just didn't get rid of the ich the first time I left the tank fallow. I started last week feeding my tank daily with reef chili since there are no fish in there and thought my corals were hungry. This is when I noticed the planaria spike, so I think I'm going to go back to my twice a week feeding and suck out as many of those little guys as I can to see if I can get it under control naturally. I've heard worm exit kills the planaria, but can also take inverts and corals along for the ride when they release toxins into the tank.

 

I've read that green chromis, damsels and some butterflies eat them. Since all of my fish are in QT, there's nothing in there to control the population. Do any of you know of a local place that sells flatworm exit? Thanks for all of the advice guys!

 

They're in a cycled 30 gallon QT tank with coppersafe. They're fed a combination of formula 1, formula 2, and mysis. I never had an ich problem until the powder blue was introduced. We'll see how they look when I put them back in there in 7 weeks.

Thanks JB

 

I sucked a bunch of them out last night with some air hose. Those little things STINK.

 

Thanks ap, I read that page already. I've heard a lot of worm eXit horror stories so that's why I'm going to see if reduced coral feeding and diligent worm removal work first.