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Most flatworms, including Procotyla fluviatilis, are predators. They eat protists (including Amoeba, Paramecium, and Euglena), rotifers, nematodes, small crustaceans, aquatic worms, and other soft-bodied animals. They also feed on dead animal matter and larger animals that are injured.
Planarians are free-living, primarily carnivorous flatworms-with a three-branched digestive cavity. Planarians may eat other living, as well as dead, invertebrates, detritus or decaying organic matter, and some prefer diatoms.I feed my planarians egg yolk and bits of beef liver.It is fun to see their gastrovascular cavity filled with egg yolk after a big meal! Most are freshwater forms, but marine and terrestrial planarians exist. White, gray, brown, black, and green or sometimes transparent, planarians range in size from 1/8 to 1 in.mail:Planarians@stevesauter.com. O ne class of the phylum Platyhelminthes or flatworms is free-living, that is, not parasitic. These are the Turbellaria. These soft, flat worms are widely distributed over land, sea and fresh waters.