This answered a lot of questions for me, I've never set up a tank before so I didn't know how to attach coral, what or how dipping was and I was always curious as well how long they can stay out of water. thank you for this!
We know there isn't a total agreement on what a *Holy Grail* torch coral is, some might call this strain a *Dragon Soul* but that's the trouble with trade names. The only *REAL* name for this coral is Euphyllia glabrescens. You can buy Revive from our North American Retail Partner Premium Aquatics: premiumaquatics.com/products/fishies-revive-coral-cleaner-168oz-500ml.html
But if you only care about the REAL name, why even mention the trade names or that it was a "holy grail" to me it should be called the Holy flatworm hammer
This is excellent I have 2 torch corals which open through out the whole day and out the blue they close up n I noticed some black dots on the corals so I’m thinking it could be flat worms but I will try the coral revive thank you
That was great thanks so much so many flatworms. I wasn’t expecting that made me think maybe I need to do a dip. It’s been just over 8 months since I added my corals 😀👍🏻
This is exactly what I have in my aquarium. The flatworms look like shingles on my rocks. I keep pulling hundreds out with a target feeder. I have had to dip my torch coral since it was kind of sad looking. It's been a week now and I see it a little better🙏. I don't want to use anything to dose my aquarium for flat worms and I am currently looking for rigid tubing to attach hose to suck them out.
We can only imagine how many flatworms are actually in the tank wow. That orange hammer up front would be my show piece that thing is amazing. U might be surprised at how much more those torches open. Can’t wait to see
You'd be surprised, I've dipped others and had virtually none come off, and some that have had them bad seem to shake them off after a nice thorough dip for years
Seeing as through it appears that there is an infestation of flat worms in that system, doesn't it seem like dipping individual corals is a loosing battle? Aside from a wrasse, what other methods would you use to treat the whole tank? Thanks and I greatly appreciate your content...Cheers from Canada
if it was a chronic problem I'd certainly be worried and would have done something to completely eradicate them but since it's not, I just keep an eye the corals.
Hey Marc, hi from Halifax. My LFS recommends the Springers damsel a.k.a. Blue Sapphire Damsel as a good utility fish to combat flatworms. Do some research on it, keep in mind they can be territorial and have a small area that they will patrol. For a larger tank you would add them for based on how large this area is. My tank is an 80 gal corner tank and I have one, probably should have two as one half of the tank is not being patrolled.
Hello, friend! you're cool! you motivated me to create my own channel! i also started to study corals and shoot! I did it! thank you and good luck in all your endeavors!
Just as a tip to look into, I think I had the same flatworms and I got rid of them with Tropic Marins "ELIMI-PHOS RAPID" It's for rapid PO4 reduction (Lanthanum based), but somehow kills flatworms too 👍
Heyho, Elimi Phos Rapid from Tropic Marin is intended to reduce Phos and it does but the positiv other effect it has is that it kills the normal flatworms in the tank.
Nice video! I'm super excited for the Nano reef 1 year update too. I'm planning a tank and showed my wife the nano build and said "mmm, I want that!" Quick question: would you recommend any inverts/fish to help with taking out those flatworms?
I've recently had to frag hammer and frogspawn because they were getting so large they were shading themselves and each other. Now I have a tank full of frags that need new homes.
Should you use a series of dips. Rinse, blow off, repeat until you have spent 1-2 minutes x 3 or 4 fresh dips in sequence. Shouldn’t you now dip, all the euphyllia?
Thanks.. I have a small euphyllia garden, am going to try your process with one and if it has any I’ll do them all. Love your videos always learn a ton!!
Hey Jake. I have been living with those flatworms for 15 years. I have had 100% success rate with melanarus wrasse (3 different specimens) eating these guys. They will never be all gone but their population will decrease by 90%. No luck with sixline wrasse at all. Good luck.
@@ReefBuildersVideo I hope it helps. I have not had any of the other varieties of Halichoeres, just Halichoeres melanurus. Mileage may vary with other species. Good luck! Oh, by the way, I am not a wrasse guy either but these dudes pull their weight!
I had a full 3 month war with flatworms and thought it was bad and time to shut down. FlatwormExit was the final solution. It killed my starfishes but I cant believe you have soooo many
This FW already breed all over the tank & corals.. this is also happen in my tank.. i dip it with FW Exit by salifert, and it took some corals died after..
Wow, that's kind of scary to see that many flatworms pop off, even if they are benign. There has to be natural ways to deal with that as I can't imagine removing corals for dipping is in any way practical for most people. That said, Revive always reminded me of PineSol, now I know why!... not that I'd ever dip my corals in Pine Sol :D
@@dyamiclaassen901 which wrasse eat lps? I haven't heard of that. I've got a melanurus wrasse, half banded flasher wrasse, yellow tail tamarin wrasse, laboutei wrasse and cleaner wrasse in my heavily dominated lps tank and I've never had problems
I know this doesn’t pertain to this vid but I have. A toadstool and I took it off my the frag plug i brought it with and glued it to a new one will it be okay
torches are the only Euphyllia and all others are Fimbriaphyllia, if they grow together it seems ok but the only time problems arise is when you put a big fat healthy torch next to smaller, weaker Euphyllias
Being a staple in the industry you should show us the proper (treating the whole tank or not?)method when noticing an infestation at this magnitude Benign or not as a reefer I would ask my self what would I do it would be great to have a experienced person such as your self to show us the way just thought
Lovely tank. How much flow do you have in this? What type I’m having a hard time knowing how much is enough for lps and sps etc. I know there’s general turn over times but it’s looks like pretty low flow in this tank. Tank size and setting etc? Thank you
Those euphyllia really love that flatworm tank!
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Hahahaa perfect
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miss this guys video. rip. anyone reading this comment ..don't forget to enjoy your life and spend time with your favourite people while you can.
Omg I didn’t know he passed??
Agreed
He died?
Miss you everyday Jake!
You know you're a reefer when... you have a kessil as a bench lamp.
RIP bro i really loved ur vids
RIP MY BROTHER WE LOVE YOU I STARTED THE FISH HOBBY BECAUSE OF YOU THANK YOU SOO MUCH MAY YOUR SOUL RIP BROTHER
He passed away????
@@davestephens9463yes in 2022
oh wow! well, RIP and his work obviously lives on because im here in 2024 learning away@@Crybaby-Media
This answered a lot of questions for me, I've never set up a tank before so I didn't know how to attach coral, what or how dipping was and I was always curious as well how long they can stay out of water. thank you for this!
I can’t imagine how great that torch must’ve felt after getting all those flatworms off
ohhh mannn.. i dont even want to think about it
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Just only two corals that live in so many flatworms. I cannot imagine that how many flatworm are there in your tank.
We know there isn't a total agreement on what a *Holy Grail* torch coral is, some might call this strain a *Dragon Soul* but that's the trouble with trade names. The only *REAL* name for this coral is Euphyllia glabrescens. You can buy Revive from our North American Retail Partner Premium Aquatics: premiumaquatics.com/products/fishies-revive-coral-cleaner-168oz-500ml.html
But if you only care about the REAL name, why even mention the trade names or that it was a "holy grail" to me it should be called the Holy flatworm hammer
Holy Grail and Dragon Soul are quite different.
You literally have an article on dragon souls
@@justinlok8510 like an $800 difference and colors
Wow, amazing to see so many come off when you dip. Great video
If you added a 6 lined wrasse, he would have been the happiest and best fed wrasse ever.
Those flatworms loving that euphyllia dominated tank :)
That euphyllia is loving that flatworm dominated tank😂
if thats whats on just 1 coral, imagine whats hiding in the rest of the tank
You should make a Playlist of your music! I'm always trying to find out what the songs are in your intros.
Hi Jake! great video, there were certainly a lot of flat worms! 😀👍
Omg I love that tank this is what I have in mind rip Jake
7:53 THAT'S WHAT SHE SAID!
VERY NICE !!!! Got my T-shirt in the mail yesterday looking FRESH 👌
This is excellent I have 2 torch corals which open through out the whole day and out the blue they close up n I noticed some black dots on the corals so I’m thinking it could be flat worms but I will try the coral revive thank you
That was great thanks so much so many flatworms. I wasn’t expecting that made me think maybe I need to do a dip. It’s been just over 8 months since I added my corals 😀👍🏻
For me it's so gratifying watching you frag coral, especially watching those flat worms falling off. Think i might be a little weird. 🙃
Love the flatworm dominant reef tank :p
technically it's a BACTERIA dominated aquarium ;-)
anyone else start itching watching this?
This is exactly what I have in my aquarium. The flatworms look like shingles on my rocks. I keep pulling hundreds out with a target feeder. I have had to dip my torch coral since it was kind of sad looking. It's been a week now and I see it a little better🙏. I don't want to use anything to dose my aquarium for flat worms and I am currently looking for rigid tubing to attach hose to suck them out.
There’s some kind of fish that eat flat worms but I can’t remember what it is
We can only imagine how many flatworms are actually in the tank wow.
That orange hammer up front would be my show piece that thing is amazing. U might be surprised at how much more those torches open. Can’t wait to see
You'd be surprised, I've dipped others and had virtually none come off, and some that have had them bad seem to shake them off after a nice thorough dip for years
Seeing as through it appears that there is an infestation of flat worms in that system, doesn't it seem like dipping individual corals is a loosing battle? Aside from a wrasse, what other methods would you use to treat the whole tank? Thanks and I greatly appreciate your content...Cheers from Canada
if it was a chronic problem I'd certainly be worried and would have done something to completely eradicate them but since it's not, I just keep an eye the corals.
Hey Marc, hi from Halifax. My LFS recommends the Springers damsel a.k.a. Blue Sapphire Damsel as a good utility fish to combat flatworms. Do some research on it, keep in mind they can be territorial and have a small area that they will patrol. For a larger tank you would add them for based on how large this area is. My tank is an 80 gal corner tank and I have one, probably should have two as one half of the tank is not being patrolled.
@@ReefBuildersVideo you wouldn’t call that amount of flat worms chronic ?
That tank needs a dose of flatworm X
Flatworm X can crash tanks.
Get a wrasse damsel.
Omg! I love that orange hammer coral! What is that? I would love one of those.
oh boy, that was a freaking legion !! 😯
At this point would you dip the whole tank?
Hello, friend! you're cool! you motivated me to create my own channel! i also started to study corals and shoot! I did it! thank you and good luck in all your endeavors!
Just as a tip to look into, I think I had the same flatworms and I got rid of them with Tropic Marins "ELIMI-PHOS RAPID"
It's for rapid PO4 reduction (Lanthanum based), but somehow kills flatworms too 👍
LOVE LOVE LOVE your videos man keep up the awesome work 👍
Awesome video! Love the torch but i'm still obsessed with your stripped candy canes! I'd love to find a frag of those one day.
That's two years of growth from a single head?! W O W
Like Christmas brown snow globe of flatworms LOL
Heyho, Elimi Phos Rapid from Tropic Marin is intended to reduce Phos and it does but the positiv other effect it has is that it kills the normal flatworms in the tank.
Nice video! I'm super excited for the Nano reef 1 year update too. I'm planning a tank and showed my wife the nano build and said "mmm, I want that!"
Quick question: would you recommend any inverts/fish to help with taking out those flatworms?
Man that was crazy flat worm family
Nice!! Kevin gets a coral!! That’s basically what happens with my pay check too. ;-)
i did my Flatworm treatment with ElimiPhos rapid, in my 1000 Liter Tank i´v dosed 3 times 10 ml and the Flatworms did disapeer
Really starting to like euphyllia. Thats a beautiful tank.
Nice little 6 line wrasse would love that flat worn buffet
what if you dosed Revive directly in the tank to get rid of them on all corals? would it create problems with the other livestock?
YES! The dip is a dip. That means prolonged exposure will harm your corals and other livestock.
I just got the brightwell aquatics coral amino too, super excited to see the growth
Merci pour le partage jake 💪👍
I've recently had to frag hammer and frogspawn because they were getting so large they were shading themselves and each other. Now I have a tank full of frags that need new homes.
WOW! So easy to frag! Will it work if i try to get a clean flat surface to adhere without a band saw?
Should you use a series of dips. Rinse, blow off, repeat until you have spent 1-2 minutes x 3 or 4 fresh dips in sequence. Shouldn’t you now dip, all the euphyllia?
Nah I'm not that worried about it, corals are growing fast enough
I would love to have one of those
Having that many flatworms
on the holly grail would they not have spread to the other euphyllia in the tank? I would think the tank is full of them.
Some corals have a few and some have none, not quite sure what encourages the FW to target certain corals and avoid others
Thanks.. I have a small euphyllia garden, am going to try your process with one and if it has any I’ll do them all. Love your videos always learn a ton!!
What light do you have on those tanks. And second don't you keep any wrasse or gobies to take care of the flat worms.
Thanks
If you see Blood , stop! It is not the coral...😂
Great video!
Oh boy someone referred to a coralite as a "head" in this one. "... A what?" 😆
Hey Jake. I have been living with those flatworms for 15 years. I have had 100% success rate with melanarus wrasse (3 different specimens) eating these guys. They will never be all gone but their population will decrease by 90%. No luck with sixline wrasse at all. Good luck.
thanks for the tip, I'll look into adding a Halichoeres sp. wrasse to this tank for general maintenance
@@ReefBuildersVideo I hope it helps. I have not had any of the other varieties of Halichoeres, just Halichoeres melanurus. Mileage may vary with other species. Good luck! Oh, by the way, I am not a wrasse guy either but these dudes pull their weight!
@@ReefBuildersVideo did you end up with a melanarus wrasse to decimate the flatworms?
Really like your videos, thanks for the info Bro!
Jake, what saw do you use for making the flat cuts, also were you spraying rodi water or saltwater?
Wow, that is totally beautiful..could you please tell me what live rock that is in that tank and where to get it?!
Also look for eggs under the membrane and scrape them off. Dips won’t affect the eggs.
Great video!
How many liters does that tank hold? looks awesome!
I had a full 3 month war with flatworms and thought it was bad and time to shut down. FlatwormExit was the final solution. It killed my starfishes but I cant believe you have soooo many
Great video
Flatworms and asterina stars are so often the stuff that pops off when dipped. I kind of don't mind Asteria stars however.
This FW already breed all over the tank & corals.. this is also happen in my tank.. i dip it with FW Exit by salifert, and it took some corals died after..
where did the aussie gold torch go ?
Nice
Wow, that's kind of scary to see that many flatworms pop off, even if they are benign. There has to be natural ways to deal with that as I can't imagine removing corals for dipping is in any way practical for most people.
That said, Revive always reminded me of PineSol, now I know why!... not that I'd ever dip my corals in Pine Sol :D
Some fish eat them like a yellow wrasse
Спасибо за видос 👍
Wow.. spettacolo di euphillia 🙋♂️bye from italy
Omg a lot to dip ... i hope you get rid of it 🤞
Greetings
Pat
That orange hammer is insane! Is that a wall or branching type?
Hi. 15:43 what kind of action do we see in the video that you suddenly highlight the warm colors? Digital Orange Filter? 😄 Thanks 🤟
wow I could probably pay off my student loans with his tanks lmao
That was cool !
How did you identify that the coral contained those flatworm initially?
Knowing they are there, and you can see them if you look closely on the tentacles, or the base when polyps are retracted at night
Great video, loved seeing the cleaning process, Sorry I may have missed it,but can you now feed those worms to any of you fish?
Not without reintroducing pest flatworms...
Why not put a Yellow Corris Wrasse in that tank to eat the flat worms?
A wrasse can nip/eat LPS so if you have a lot of expensive LPS in a tank you won’t take the risk.
@@dyamiclaassen901 which wrasse eat lps? I haven't heard of that. I've got a melanurus wrasse, half banded flasher wrasse, yellow tail tamarin wrasse, laboutei wrasse and cleaner wrasse in my heavily dominated lps tank and I've never had problems
@@bettinico i had a hawaian wrasse in my thank that ate my lobo and acan and he even begun nipping at some eufylia.
wow that tank probably has 100,000 flatworms in it
Anybody else cringing at how close his hands were to that saw 🤣
That whole tank has them
Can one use a Dremel tool to cut instead of band saw.
I’ve been worrying about flatworms in my tank for months... to just watch you see them so casually lol 🤣FML. I guess they aren’t harmful?
Very cool video, keep it up XD
wow holy worms!!!
I know this doesn’t pertain to this vid but I have. A toadstool and I took it off my the frag plug i brought it with and glued it to a new one will it be okay
Okay so should I be dipping my gold hammer often or due to it being grown in someone’s tank not so worried ? I’m doing much research.
How often can I dip my corals? I'm trying to get rid of all my flat worms since I have a relatively small tank with 2 corals
I saw the camera turn on the orange filter. What did you use for that?
What lighting are you using?
😎💯👍🏾🔥.......awesome looking tanks
Do you recommend separating torches and hammers? I have two close in proximity but wondering if they can coexist
torches are the only Euphyllia and all others are Fimbriaphyllia, if they grow together it seems ok but the only time problems arise is when you put a big fat healthy torch next to smaller, weaker Euphyllias
I allways use revive it's the dogs bollocks
those are the same that was killing my torch oh man goose bumps
wow
What do you use to wet the band saw
Being a staple in the industry you should show us the proper (treating the whole tank or not?)method when noticing an infestation at this magnitude Benign or not as a reefer I would ask my self what would I do it would be great to have a experienced person such as your self to show us the way just thought
I did! The side point of this video is NOT to worry about a little extra life on the corals
Wow no kidding 😳
Lovely tank. How much flow do you have in this? What type I’m having a hard time knowing how much is enough for lps and sps etc. I know there’s general turn over times but it’s looks like pretty low flow in this tank. Tank size and setting etc? Thank you
this should help th-cam.com/video/96JW6ahBInk/w-d-xo.html
Hi, how to increase gold torch coloration?