AEFW Survivor Stories

[jthnhale]

I wanted to hear from reefers who have battled the worms and won the war.

I discovered aefw's in my tank and ended up taking the whole thing down.
I removed the infected pieces and broke the colonies off the rocks.
I started with new rocks, and a sterilized tank and sump.
In the end I lost about a half of my acros . Most losses were to the worms,
but some were from the stress of the transfer and dipping.

I have been dipping random colonies and have seen no sign of the worms
coming back. I was even able to save a few of the infected colonies in a
QT tank. I dipped them every two weeks for two months in TMCPC till I saw
no more worms, then waited to make sure no more eggs hatched.
Those colonies were brown for quite some time, but after three weeks in the
main tank they are coloring up again.

I think I was lucky and caught the worms just in time. They came in on some
bali aquacultered colonies and only seemed to have jumped to the corals right next
to the new ac ones. My lesson learned the hard way, QT all incoming coral no matter where they come from.

 

[clkwrk]

I won the battle with some early info from DogBoyDave and then I came across the TMPCC tried it and it worked so I reported back here to let others know of the new TMPCC. Since then I have been worm free and others have used the same with simular results. It's been 6months + now

 

[Dejavu]

I beat the beast 2 months ago. I am happy to say that i am AEFW free. I lost alot of acro in the process, i think mostly from the tranfer to the QT. I tried many dips but found that TMPCC was the best. The whole experiance with the worms change the way i do thing now and i can say that i will never add any thing in my tank without QT and dips.

 

[Dejavu]

I beat the beast 2 months ago. I am happy to say that i am AEFW free. I lost alot of acro in the process, i think mostly from the tranfer to the QT. I tried many dips but found that TMPCC was the best. The whole experiance with the worms change the way i do thing now and i can say that i will never add any thing in my tank without QT and dips.