Aefw?????

OG Reefs

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I've been noticing that my blue acro hasn't been opening up and there were spaghetti worm looking things coming out of the polyps. The Acro then lost its color and browned out, then it started to RTN. I thought this happened because it was a wild caught acro. Then I noticed that the same thing was happening to my cali tort. I lifted the frag to take a closer look and I saw 2 flat leach looking things on the plug and they moved pretty fast. I didnt know what they were at the time but i did kill them outside the tank and dipped the frag in iodone for 15 minutes. I also took out my blue acro and saw another on it's skeleton so I dried it out. this is what I saw
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could that be an AEFW?

here is a picture of my cali tort, It lost it's color and they polyps are all beat up but they still try to open up.

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what should I do from here? is this guy done for or can it recover?
 
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Have you found eggs? With that amount of damage on the bottom frag there should be significant egg deposits.
 
I am pretty sure that I see 2 Red Bugs on the first pic.

As for the bite marks, the picture is not clear enough for me to say for sure.
 
Have you found eggs? With that amount of damage on the bottom frag there should be significant egg deposits.

haven't seen eggs. Cali tort hasn't gotten worse but it hasn't gotten better either

I am pretty sure that I see 2 Red Bugs on the first pic.

As for the bite marks, the picture is not clear enough for me to say for sure.

They're pods, they are all over my tank. They were white but they turned that color in the sun
 
turkey baste your acros....if you have aefw---you'll know immediately.:sad2:

No real treatment for an established tank without dismantling it.
 
Here in Brazil we have a medicine called "Ascaridil" that is Levamisole Clorhidrate. It's been quite efective over AEFW. I have tested and they die almost immediately.

I know people are testing without success Levamisole in-tank treatment but I think our medicine have other component that kill this thing also because here, they die even on low concentration.
 
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