aefw?
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Matman
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Fairly simple to know if you have them, dip in revive the colony you're suspecting the most having them and you'll see them fall at the bottom of the container.
The normal way of dealing with them is periodic dipping, but that's a pita.
I deal with them right now and I'm having some success with zeovit flatwormstop. I think you still need to dip your colonies to help, but not as much. I've dip the original colonie that was affected and I think it is now free of them after like 6 weeks. When I bast the corals I can sometime still see 1 or 2 coming from some corals, but it seems the population is falling. The product by itself seems great for colors and polyp extension. I do double dosing and didn't have any algae or cyano increase. I'll probably keep dosing it permanantly (I only have 25g, so it's not that expensive for me). Apparently Thomas Phol was recommanding to stop dosing iodine while dosing flatwormstop, I guess it's reducing the slime the coral is producing.
The normal way of dealing with them is periodic dipping, but that's a pita.
I deal with them right now and I'm having some success with zeovit flatwormstop. I think you still need to dip your colonies to help, but not as much. I've dip the original colonie that was affected and I think it is now free of them after like 6 weeks. When I bast the corals I can sometime still see 1 or 2 coming from some corals, but it seems the population is falling. The product by itself seems great for colors and polyp extension. I do double dosing and didn't have any algae or cyano increase. I'll probably keep dosing it permanantly (I only have 25g, so it's not that expensive for me). Apparently Thomas Phol was recommanding to stop dosing iodine while dosing flatwormstop, I guess it's reducing the slime the coral is producing.
MammothReefer
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No, you can minimize them (maybe got lucky and eliminate them) but live with them by blasting/basting your corals and using wrasses, or shrimp to eat them, or you can try to dip everything at risk of the corals dying from the dips. Unfortunately there is no safe/easy solution at this time. I'm trying the zeovit flatworm exit but so far I haven't seen results that merit the product being productive. I'm somewhere in between now. I'm basting to keep them to check and if I find anything that is getting overwhelmed I pull it and dip it. (If I know 100% it can stand the dip)
MammothReefer
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Wrasses and shrimp alone won't get the job done, you need to go over all your acros with a power head, and or turkey baster to knock them off weekly, if not twice a week. So the fish can eat the ones they can't reach. Everybody claims different wrasses from melanurus, to coris. (Halichoeres sp). People also claim you can use Camel (dancing shrimp) but they also are reported to eat your SPS once the flat worms are gone. Some people have had good luck keeping just enough of them to keep the aefw in check (I haven't tried dancing shrimp yet).
The down side to these type of wrasses if they are aggressive, and will harass/kill smaller fish, other wrasses and any shrimp they can get there beaks on. (at least in my experience)
The down side to these type of wrasses if they are aggressive, and will harass/kill smaller fish, other wrasses and any shrimp they can get there beaks on. (at least in my experience)
