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crispyreef

crispyreef

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Well I now have them. I thought I have been careful dipping all new frags and breaking off the plugs there on, but not careful enough. If you have gotten a frag from me lately, start your treatment or throw it away. This is the biggest headache you can think of. I'm now dipping every coral every other day and I've lost three pieces so far. This is no joke. My tank has AIDS.
 
Condolences. I went through the same thing about a year ago, and ended up killing more corals with my treatment efforts than the worms ever got.

So are you just removing and dipping and then putting back in the display in the meantime, or did you put everything in a separate treatment tank? What are you dipping with?
 
I'm using iodine and blasting them with a syringe. Then i scape any eggs off with a tooth brush before I put it back. So far I lost a bonsia, and two other blue tipped acros.
 
I would suggest not trying to srcape the eggs off. I just cut the dead coral with eggs off. They don't seem to lay eggs on coral tissue just the skeleton. Look very close as there maybe dead areas you wouldn't expect.
 
I agree with Steve. Just cut the dead areas off and scrape anything suspicious. You have to be really aggressive with this. Saving even part of a coral is better than losing the whole thing or having to go through this all over again 6 months from now because you missed a couple of eggs.

I tried Levamisole, FWE, TMPCC (which is iodine), but IME the most effective and easiest on the corals was Revive Coral Cleaner. It may be nothing more than Pine Sol, but it works.

I do think you are better off removing and dipping than putting everything in a separate tank.
 
RED BUGS, FLATWORMS, NUDIBRANCHS, RTN, WHAT'S NEXT????
Trading SPS's is defiantly not for the faint-of-heart
My tanks are on lock down.
My prized superman ate up in one night!!! The week before the base was so very purple and the polyps redder than ever. Now it is bone white.
I'm going back to soft corals!!!!
I miss my Sinularia, Sarcopythons, and Cladellia I never had to worry that when my lights go off wether they would be there in the morning.
I have fifteen year old Zoo's and take care of a frogspawn that has been around since the Reagan was prez and is over two feet in diameter. If I didn't trim it, it would probably be twice that size. I have never had anything try to eat that.
 
I've set up an elaborate quarantine system. before anything goes in my main display. All this is happening in one of my grow out systems. Maybe it would be a good topic for a future meeting.
 
i agree James. that should be the next topic. If you could email me the way you quarantine your corals and fish that would be great.
 
Guy- I don't think the aefw came from a raffle coral....at least not since I've been doing them. I follow the same regiment every time. i dip mine in iodine, then fresh saltwater...... then in a concentrated Interceptor dip, then back into more fresh saltwater....then into the frag/quaranteen tank for a week or so.

Clay- the next meeting topic and demonstration will be just that.....dipping and the use of a Q-tank.
 
Blah! I agree - "havin' critters is BAD!"

knock on wood, I don't think I've picked up any AEFW in our swaps, but I definitely have learned all about montipora eating nudibranchs!

As I mentioned at our last meeting, I finally just moved all of my "susceptible" montis (the nudi's definitely seemed to prefer only two of the types in my tank, thank goodness) into another tank. There is not much left to them, but at least MOST of them are out of the main tank (we'll see if I reduced the population to below critical mass or not… come on, wrasse - help me out here!).

If you notice your montis are unhealthy, and want to see some of the pics I took of offending critters to help you ID them, just let me know and I'll email them to you.

Anyhow, I'm looking forward to the next meeting, both for the presentation, and in hopes that Jake will bring some iodine to sell :-).

-Nate
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=13598811#post13598811 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by elensius
Blah! I agree - "havin' critters is BAD!"

knock on wood, I don't think I've picked up any AEFW in our swaps, but I definitely have learned all about montipora eating nudibranchs!

As I mentioned at our last meeting, I finally just moved all of my "susceptible" montis (the nudi's definitely seemed to prefer only two of the types in my tank, thank goodness) into another tank. There is not much left to them, but at least MOST of them are out of the main tank (we'll see if I reduced the population to below critical mass or not… come on, wrasse - help me out here!).

If you notice your montis are unhealthy, and want to see some of the pics I took of offending critters to help you ID them, just let me know and I'll email them to you.

Anyhow, I'm looking forward to the next meeting, both for the presentation, and in hopes that Jake will bring some iodine to sell :-).

-Nate
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Nate,

Just get Providone 10% or maybe the club can get a larger amount and just get smaller containers to distribute to all club members? My girlfriend and I got a kit from BAR with a dip sheet which worked great! This is alot cheaper than paying for iodine from a LFS.

"Dolores" <------ You like that Bob ha,ha,ha
 
Sorry about that Chris, I am sure you can get over this problem. Once you are ready to restock, let me know.

The sad thing is some people are knowingly trading infected corals too.
 
I did a round of dipping last night with marine melafix. It works much more aggressively than iodine. Some good news, many pieces are not infested. Only a few have them so I just might be able to stay on top of this.
 
I did a round of dipping last night with marine melafix. It works much more aggressively than iodine. Some good news, many pieces are not infested. Only a few have them so I just might be able to stay on top of this.
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Coral Farmer turned me on to that and I really like it too. It works for Montipora nudibranchs as well.
 
Update, after last nights round of dips, I didn't find any flat worms at all. One coral that pulled off at least 20+ flat worms didn't have one. This doesn't mean that I'm in the clear, I just have to keep it up. So, there may be some hope.
 
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