AEFW question

[Scubajoe1]

If I have potential signs of AEFW and dip my hard corals and any hatched eggs from the corals is it possible that the AEFW are still in the tank or do they only hang out on the SPS corals?

Thanks

Scubajoe

 

[Scubajoe1]

OK so I dipped my corals again and had a magnifying glass this time. I did not think what came off yesterday looked like AEFW. Upon close examination today I did not see any eggs and what fell off was Copepods. I see a lot of them in my tank at night when I shine a light on the tank. I caught some free swimming ones last night and noticed they were copepods. I guess the two bottles I put in the tank months ago took off and are reproducing. So today I looked at the creatures falling off after dipping and they were more copepods. I have two smooth acropora that look like there is tissue necrosis in areas but the corals are free of parasites. Not quite sure what's causing that now. Could be the fact that I was running a biopellet reactor with no nitrates or nutrients in the tank at all. I have never seen any fish munching on anything. I have three brittle stars but I don't think they would be doing it. Anyone have any ideas?

Thanks

Scubajoe

 

[Hockeynut120]

Could have been the bio pellets, I'm personally not a fan of bio pellets I see more problems with them then good. Not to say some aren't sucessful with them I would just go another route. I have been running my 90 gallon for 2.5 years with 17 fish and feed heavy and my nitrates are always around 10. I change water 10% a week and levels never seem to climb. I also do not run GFO because I feel it upsets the blance between phosphate and nitrate.