Look up Tegastes acroporanus (a.k.a. Red Bugs). they are Acropora eating copepods... surprised you have not heard of them before!~
Accro eating flatworms eggs?
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Look up Tegastes acroporanus (a.k.a. Red Bugs). they are Acropora eating copepods... surprised you have not heard of them before!~
maroun.c
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I have definitely heard of red bugs just didn't know they were referred to as Accro eating copepods. will try to find some pics of their eggs and compare the pattern and shape.
Thanks for clarifying.
Bayer dip works great with aefw. Mix 10 ml per cup of water and do a 10 min dip. Place the colony in a qt tank and do a 2nd dip in 3 days and another dip in another 3 days. If you can keep the dt free of acropora for 3 weeks or more that will give enough time for whatever aefw left in the DT to starve off. After that you can move the colonies back to dt. Peroxide tends to kill acros and other sps. Freshwater dip can also be very stressful.
trueblackpercula
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Red bugs do not eat acropora but irritate the polyp extension that in return does not allow the sps to feed. red bugs are easily killed with interceptor or centinal.
Also the picture above is not redbug eggs at all.
Redrosetuscan
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I just mentioned in another thread that I can't believe there's no natural predator for aefw.
I believe there must be, simply because they would decimate whole reefs if there wasn't a predator.
They seem more common on maricultured pieces. As such if there was no predator there would be serious problems in growing maricultured on the reef.
When the coral comes in they still look good with no obvious signs and they aren't covered in them at all, maybe just a couple come off. This suggests something is keeping them in check before they are removed from the sea.
It would almost be as simple as going to a farm, searching for tell tale bite marks and waiting and watching, possibly difficult if they predate them at night.
Of course if anyone wants to chop in and sponsor me......:celeb3:
Another thing is that they seem to be only on bali pieces, has anyone come across them on oz or fiji stuff?
Could be that whatever eats them doesn't live in lagoons where they grow them but I do believe they do.
I'm fairly sure any acro with a crab in hasn't had them in my tank, it makes sense they would eat them.
For me simply basting works, as long as numbers are small it's ok, the wrasse then devour them. They are only a real problem if nothing is done.
I also don't see the point in dips as it really upsets the acro, basting will remove them, I've heard of people using ro to do this as well which is meant to be even more effective. No dip kills the eggs. I just dip when they go in the tank, but not once they've been in for a while as I find moving them and taking them out causes upset on it's own.
In my tank now I haven't seen eggs for ages but did find a aefw on one piece so there still there. Hopefully I've broken the cycle now but won't hold my breath.
I believe there must be, simply because they would decimate whole reefs if there wasn't a predator.
They seem more common on maricultured pieces. As such if there was no predator there would be serious problems in growing maricultured on the reef.
When the coral comes in they still look good with no obvious signs and they aren't covered in them at all, maybe just a couple come off. This suggests something is keeping them in check before they are removed from the sea.
It would almost be as simple as going to a farm, searching for tell tale bite marks and waiting and watching, possibly difficult if they predate them at night.
Of course if anyone wants to chop in and sponsor me......:celeb3:
Another thing is that they seem to be only on bali pieces, has anyone come across them on oz or fiji stuff?
Could be that whatever eats them doesn't live in lagoons where they grow them but I do believe they do.
I'm fairly sure any acro with a crab in hasn't had them in my tank, it makes sense they would eat them.
For me simply basting works, as long as numbers are small it's ok, the wrasse then devour them. They are only a real problem if nothing is done.
I also don't see the point in dips as it really upsets the acro, basting will remove them, I've heard of people using ro to do this as well which is meant to be even more effective. No dip kills the eggs. I just dip when they go in the tank, but not once they've been in for a while as I find moving them and taking them out causes upset on it's own.
In my tank now I haven't seen eggs for ages but did find a aefw on one piece so there still there. Hopefully I've broken the cycle now but won't hold my breath.
trueblackpercula
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Maybe this will answer some questions of what eats them. Look at the fish
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOPkTKydeEQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBM5uAmnJBQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9p5U4M7bhw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3N26woPiOmU <<<< this one shows green chromis all over the place
You must have missed my post where i said red bugs are viviparous... so obviously they are not red bug eggs.. also the crustacean feeds off of the slime and waste products produced by the Acroporas.. and if you want to get technical with me.. its spelled sentinel :hammer:
Please read the whole thread before responding in a condescending way. But thanks for your enlightening post
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trueblackpercula
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You must have missed my post where i said red bugs are viviparous... so obviously they are not red bug eggs.. also the crustacean feeds off of the slime and waste products produced by the Acroporas.. and if you want to get technical with me.. its spelled sentinel :hammer:
Please read the whole thread before responding in a condescending way. But thanks for your enlightening post
lol condescending ways? not at all ............just stating the facts
maroun.c
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Thanks for all the replies and info guys.
Current status is that he's dipping any coral that is not looking good, still has to see an
AEFW. Problem is that the tank is packed with coral so any of the usual methods involving dipping corals and keeping them in a Quarantine tank or weekly basting the corals is going to be very difficult.
Current status is that he's dipping any coral that is not looking good, still has to see an
AEFW. Problem is that the tank is packed with coral so any of the usual methods involving dipping corals and keeping them in a Quarantine tank or weekly basting the corals is going to be very difficult.
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