AEFW - zeo treatment worth it?

StarF said:
ben using it for around 3 weeks, i see no change. I still sometimes se bitemarks from aefw. I wouldent rule it out yet, and mabye its getting bettere, but its hard to tell. When i blow my corals, they dont blow off anymore, so mabye there are less of them now? any way i will continue, i bought a big bottle so there should be enought for at least 3 month´s of treathment :)

btw it smells a bit like vinegar, mabye vinegar with amino acids?, and it has a brownish color..
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Hey dude, many thanks for the update. The fact that not as many come off the corals when you blast the corals can probably taken as a good sign that there is less of them. Just continue as you are doing. I hope things work out well for you. I lost sooo many nice SPS to AEFW's. :uzi:

Lets hope you get rid of them for good. :beer:
 
sahin said:
Hey dude, many thanks for the update. The fact that not as many come off the corals when you blast the corals can probably taken as a good sign that there is less of them. Just continue as you are doing. I hope things work out well for you. I lost sooo many nice SPS to AEFW's. :uzi:

Lets hope you get rid of them for good. :beer:
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tnx man :)

well i never had a big problem with aefw, but even though i had a few wrass someone would show now and then when i blasted the corals, usaly there would always flot 2 to 4 off the corals, how ever that hasent ben the case for a few weeks, corals sometimes still show signs of small bitemarks, or mabye they just havent healed yet? any way i will update again later.
 
StarF said:
tnx man :)

well i never had a big problem with aefw, but even though i had a few wrass someone would show now and then when i blasted the corals, usaly there would always flot 2 to 4 off the corals, how ever that hasent ben the case for a few weeks, corals sometimes still show signs of small bitemarks, or mabye they just havent healed yet? any way i will update again later.
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any change on your coral tissue colors ?

is your system on Zeovit ?

thanks :)
 
Vinegar seems odd, you can't just dose as much vinegar as you want to your tank. It would be like doing the same with vodka. Which is something this product claims, that you can't over dose it.
 
well In a moment of weakness I bought 500ml directly from the zeo site desipite my better judgment and my normal skepticism over "snake oil". Shipping over from Germany not sure when I get it but when I do... ...I'll be your guinea pig :)
 
I will add my experience, I used full zeovit, had AEFW, and survived w/o casualties maily due to the overall health of the corals, and the fact that I basted each of them daily, my fish welcomed the sight of the sight of the baster, lol... I have read no threads or have experience with the said product, I do know that during my experience running zeovit, my coral health was exceptional, despite the dreaded pest. So maybe another of the supps that aid in the overall experience, don't know:)
 
i am ready to call it snake oil. The aefw problem hasent gone better or worse, its about the same. So about 2 month of threatment and no sigsns of it helping.
 
That doesnt sound so good...hmmm. Just keep going until at least the full 3 months before you stop it.

And in any event, if you have enough of the product go beyond the 3 months or as long as the product lasts.

But darn it...I was hoping this was something that would really help. :hmm2:
 
i will use it until the bottle is empty, might aswell but i doubt anything will change during the last month. I think it contains some amino acids and other stuff to give your coral a health boost and nothing more. but its just a guess..
 
Hi reefers...

It´s very difficult to me believe in this product. Probably it will help to nourish the sick corals and improve the imune system but change something in coral physiology to force it to secrete something that repels or kills these specialist parasites it´s very hard to believe...probably it´s easier produce a transgenic coral resistent to this plague (i´m kidding!!!! this isn´t a easy job too).

I don´t think that is difficult to erradicate this bastards..but it is absolutely laborious. Setup a qt and bath the corals are a pain in the *** but works...
I´m with cross fingers to someone discover a good (SAFE) intank treatment....but the zeovit product seems to be more palliative than curative.

With lucky, i could be wrong!

Hails from Brazil

D.
 
I started using today . I have all new sps . I never want to have AEFW again. My tank crashed after treating with prohibit.
My tank is a Zeovit system.
I am using it as a preventive. I have over 40 new frags. I call it my Liquid Condom:D

I still dip all frags in Prohibit then dip into Interceptor before putting into my system.

The flatworm stuff does smell funky. Its like a crazy salad dressing:D
 
I wish I could give you an update, but I don't think it would be an honest assessment this early in the treatment. Unfortunately with a 3 month recommended dosing period it's going to be a while before people can give accurate results. Plus things are going to have to be a taken with a grain of salt, at least in my case. I found and eliminated a large batch of AEFW right before the treatment and didn't find any others. Could that have been the last of them, or will it be the flatworm stop that cleared up my tank if I don't find anymore. Also what happens if I add more corals during the course of the 3 months I could possibly re-infect myself part way threw the treatment with not enough time before the end to kill this new batch of flatworms. (I do have credits on file with 2 stores that I need to use ). I also have gone upwards of 2 months without finding any AEFW only to have them return.

All I can report as of now is I'm on my 7th day of treatment. PE does increase when I dose, I blast /basted the other nite and haven't found any AEFW yet. I'm also not seeing any damage that I can correlate to AEFW at this time, but that doesn't mean there are not some still present in my system. I've had this happen a few times only to find them lurking behind or under something I couldn't get to.
 
Update for tonight, I'm on day 13 (of 90) and I found a large number of AEFW hiding out in the frag tank. Yes I know it's still early in the treatment (only 2 weeks in), but I'm going to keep updating as things progress. I did find it interesting that only 1 piece was showing signs of aggressive bite marks, even though I found the aefw on at least 6-10 frags.

As of this point I have not added ANY corals since starting the treatment so any AEFW that I have in the tank have been present since before starting (or born while in the treatment is on going). I need to step up the blasting and not just basting to at least twice a week. Regardless of flatworm stop working or not working I need to keep them in check the best I can so in the event it doesn't things don't get out of control.

One off topic thing I want to touch on I have seen some people infer that Red bugs some how keep away AEFW and that the AEFW only showed up or became a problem after killing off there Red bugs. I can assure you that I have both red bugs, and AEFW on many of the same pieces.
 
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funny how you say about red bugs and AEFW ... cause I too have them both lol

I guess ppl just notice AEFW, after their Red bugs are cured.


I have been using the flatworm stop for some time. and the damage on corals has lowered. cant really say if colors are better or not ... but PE is a bit better on some of my corals that were not doing well at all before.

still a long way to go before I can say for sure if its working or not.
 
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