AEFW - zeo treatment worth it?

[Atomikk]

FWIW I finished my quarantine of 3 months using this product, and I can clearly say that it does work. It does starve them over this period.

I dipped all of my sps prior to introduction back into the display, and none had aefws on them.

Currently I am dosing the product into my display as a precautionary measure and am dipping tricolors to verify that they are not present anymore. But there is a trick to this maddness. I basted them frequently, and checked for egg sacks.

 

[xxxduke62xxx]

FWIW I finished my quarantine of 3 months using this product, and I can clearly say that it does work. It does starve them over this period.

I dipped all of my sps prior to introduction back into the display, and none had aefws on them.

Currently I am dosing the product into my display as a precautionary measure and am dipping tricolors to verify that they are not present anymore. But there is a trick to this maddness. I basted them frequently, and checked for egg sacks.

Whatever you did with the dipping and basting is probably what worked. They said that it does not build up the slime coat and it will not starve the AEFW. All it does is boost the corals immune system to make them stronger and recover alot faster.So when using the product it WONT ELIMINATE AEFW it will only enable your corals to heal faster. . I think that whoever bought the original bottle with the original label should be reimbursed if they were deceived by its label. Like the other guy showed it does say will help rid corals of AEFW but thats not what it does. If you bought the updated label bottle and expected to rid your tank of AEFW your out of luck. i was able to beat the AEFW buy basting and dipping with many predator fish

 

[plyle02]

FWIW,
In my last zeovit run tank, I definitely had AEFW, I used the turkey baster method, my fish actually became excited when the tip of the baster entered the water, clearly they enjoyed the AEFW as food... I was able to keep them under control this way, and due to enhanced coral health, from running the zeovit system, I would watch the affected corals heal as fast as damage could occur. So, my feelings are, without using this product, that zeovit alone, for me, is more than enough to keep happy acros, despite evidence of AEFW. I would venture to say as some have suggested, that this is another product designed to increase the immunity of sps, therby allowing for one to live with them until eventual starvation.
Regards,

 

[kawicivic]

This thread is a mess. I just popped in to see what happened with this product since I have not heard much about it after its release.

For those of you who have FW, you should check out Whisperer's bayer thread for red bugs. Many have had success killing FW with bayer dips. They have pics of success in that thread. Its quite the opposite of this thread. Everyone in that thread is skeptical until they try it and then afterwards they post pics of the dip to show that it worked. This thread just seems to be a bunch of arguing.

 

[Jay4Robin]

This thread is a mess. I just popped in to see what happened with this product since I have not heard much about it after its release.

For those of you who have FW, you should check out Whisperer's bayer thread for red bugs. Many have had success killing FW with bayer dips. They have pics of success in that thread. Its quite the opposite of this thread. Everyone in that thread is skeptical until they try it and then afterwards they post pics of the dip to show that it worked. This thread just seems to be a bunch of arguing.

Some people just like to make drama.
Every tank is different and some things just do not react the same way to treatments like others.
Its not an easy hobby and to deal with sps does not make it any easier.
Lets just be thankful that there is companies and products to try.

Lets face it we are all trying to duplicate mother natures powers and it is not easy!

 

[Bugger]

what does AEFW stand for

 

[Jay4Robin]

Acro eating flatworms

 

[joao junior]

Hi guys,yours stop the skimmer when dose FS?thanks.

 

[bigbuckdown]

Hi guys,yours stop the skimmer when dose FS?thanks.

My skimmer gets shut down every time i dose FWS and coral booster for 2 hours it doesnt kill off or starve AEFW all it dose is boost the corals strength and makes them recover faster. The quicker you learn this the less aggrevated you will be when you dose this product.

 

[Jay4Robin]

Hi guys,yours stop the skimmer when dose FS?thanks.

I never read anywhere that you need to turn the skimmer off.
I do dose it down stream from my skimmer intake though.

 

[MechEng99]

I read this thread and decided to not post earlier...too much arguing with nothing documented well enough to be called "proof" in my opinion. Then, I sat down to read one of my favorite gardening books, "Square Foot Gardening," and in it was this quote,

"My personal feeling about all pest control is that a given method will work some of the time for some people and for some plants."

In a previous comment, the author states, "Some of these controls work and some of them don't, and it seems like a new one is discovered every day. My advice is to read whatever you can, but don't get too excited by each new "breakthrough." Try it if you like, but don't expect it to work miracles."

Just thought it was very amusing.

And to avoid being bashed:

Yes, I have dealt with AEFW.
I am currently AEFW free thanks to my quarantine and dipping regimen.
I have not tried the product.
I do not plan to try the product.
I believe my quarantine/dipping regimen is as bulletproof as I can make it.

 

[slapshot]

My non-scientific feelings for what that is worth after using it for two months is who knows. I do not have AEFW. I did but I beat them with the Hefty Method, little Bastards. Since I had recently added some new SPS I thought I would run it as a preventative. The big change with my corals is polyp extension. They are crazy! Corals that never showed any extension are full now. If it works I think it works by increasing the polyp extension which makes it more difficult for the worms to get to the skin of the coral and they starve to death. That would explain why it works over a long time and people are still finding worms after using it.

So I ordered another bottle just because it seems to have a positive result on the health of the corals.

 

[Jay4Robin]

Happy Tank

Happy Tank

 

[MammothReefer]

Got to side with BBD on this one. All the original marketing and collateral claimed the product was a CURE (ie RID your tank) of AEFW. The material was edited when it proven not to work. I don't know why people are so keen on waxing semantics.

This product does NOT rid, kill, or remove in ANY means AEFW from your tank. Lost in translation maybe, false advertising could be. The biggest thing that helps is the regular basting that it requires you do with dosing.

This is my AEFW infected tank living with Basting alone (and the rare dip of corals that aren't attached). Almost 2 years of AEFW and 8 months after giving up on Flat worm stop. I'm still finding them TODAY. Your corals will heal fast from a couple little bite marks if your tank is stable regardless if you use snake oil or not.

 

[aqua80]

agree with Mammothreefer
here is mine with AEFW and no FWS

 

[nanotank]

I dont understand either why people are spending so much money on something that has no proven track record and doesnt even claim to eradicate them. I hope that some good results come in time, until that time, i will use if I ever get AEFW again the levisole chloride treatment that I have used in the past. That treatment works and if done right no side effects to coral or fish.

That's like everyone bashing Zeo when it first came in the USA saying it was snake oil. Now well over 50% of the sps peeps r dosing a carbon source. Heck just regular reefers in general r dosing carbon sources. It was snake oil then but now its the norm.