AEFW Why wont they die!!!

[Piper27]

I never basted corals in the revive bath because it just blows the skin off. I used the fresh tank water bucket to rinse and shake the flat worms off. I could use a turkey baster in the melafix bath with little side effect though.

 

[2 TAZ]

I never basted corals in the revive bath because it just blows the skin off. I used the fresh tank water bucket to rinse and shake the flat worms off. I could use a turkey baster in the melafix bath with little side effect though.

Yeh I guess I learned that the hard way.

Taz like I said before...revive is too harsh to some smooth skin acros...hawkin´s seems to be specially sensitive to revive baths[QOUTE]

Yeh, I wont try that again, unfotunatley that was my only one.

 

[tdb320reef]

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How is it going? Are they still in the QT TANK?

 

[Reef Bass]

I with Stuginski on this one. I had AEFW bad (despite dipping everything incoming always - a lesson about the difference between dipping and QT) and after a year of inconsistent and insufficient efforts it got to the point where it was either toss all acros (not going to happen. I love me my colored sticks) or form a new strategy.

Once a week for six weeks straight I pulled every acro out of the tank and did the recommended dip in Melafix Marine. 10mls / l for 5 minutes. That combined with vigorous agitation dislodged adult aefw. Visual inspects for eggs and scraping to remove.

The last flatworms I saw were at week 3. It has been months since the treatment and I haven't seen any flatworms or bitemarks or damage since. I even dipped a couple of small colonies recently and there were no flatworms.

My acros were pale with poor polyp extension after 6 weeks of weekly dips, but all survived, including echinata, surharsonoi, hummilus, lokani and efflo. Melafix Marine, imho, walks the line well of being harsh on pests but not so harsh on corals.

Months later color is returning, though it's not where it was yet. Best of all polyp extension is nearly back to where it was.

 

[2 TAZ]

I did the second round of dips the night before last. I used Melafix at 3/4 rate of reccommended amount then placed them into another bucket of clean tank water were I blasted with the turkey baster. I did not find any aefw eggs and no hatched aefw but am assuming there was some. The large adults are easy to see in the buckets and there were definately none of them however I have a very hard time seeing the small ones. Corars today 2 days after the dip look about the same as before the dip, maybee 1 looks slightly worse. I ordered Melafix marine over a week ago but unfortunately it is on back order so I stuck with the melafix. Melafix definately kills them though, I got a frag from someone local and found a large adult that came off it and died in the melafix dip : )

I do have some old (probably 10 years), never opened, frozen and thawed melafix. Do you think it would still be any good? It is not the marine melafix, just the regular.

Should I wait 8 weeks or will 6 be good enough to place back in DT?

If I don't get the melafix do you think I could just do 1 more dip at the end of the quarinteen period?

 

[Reef Bass]

I don't know how long Melafix remains potent.

The important thing is to break the aefw life cycle by removing or killing all newly hatched flatworms before they can lay eggs. If you can do that, victory is yours! Way easier said than done, however.

 

[Reef Bass]

I don't know how long Melafix remains potent.

The important thing is to break the aefw life cycle by removing or killing all newly hatched flatworms before they can lay eggs. If you can do that, victory is yours! Way easier said than done, however.

 

[Stuginski]

But I think it is much more safer use a new one.

updates???

Hails from Brazil

D.

 

[2 TAZ]

Still waiting on the new melafix, hopefuly it will come before this Sunday which is when I am supposed to dip round 3.
On a possative note. I have a half dozen or so millipora that is starting to open more then I have seen in many, many months : )

These guys are so hard to see and on something like the millis I never saw any bite marks. I think they go unnoticed a lot.

 

[2 TAZ]

So far I have done 3 dips. I did not see anything in the 2nd or 3rd dip so decided to just quarantine for now. The melafix never came in, still on back order and I did not like the way the coral was responding to the revive dip. I plan to wait another week and dip everything again. If I can not find any worms I will re-introduce to the DT. Some of the coral such as the millis, blue tenius, and the green slimers, etc. are looking much better. Others still look the same, no improvement. It appears it will be a slow recovery.

 

[divewsharks]

Bauer complete insect killer will kill AEFW quick, and is pretty gentle on corals. I just used it on some AEFW I found last week on a milli. Within 30 seconds of putting the coral in the bath, the flatworms are falling off dead.
Ive used the bayer on many different types of coral.
Check out the thread on it. It under the label of another option for red bugs.