are aefw in your sump?

[jjoos99]

I am getting ready to treat my tank with flatworm exit and was wondering if I can shut down my main return pump and just treat my display tank? Just trying to conserve the amount of exit I have to use per dose. I think I have about 60 gallons of water in my sump room that is connected inline with the main tank.
thanks
Jeff

 

[marinelife]

Flatworm exit does not work on acro eating flatworms.
The AEFWs should only be on the acropora and surrounding rock.

I can not see how they would live in the sump without acropora corals to feed on.

 

[M007]

FWE only treats Planarian flat worm, not AEFW. Read the instructions carefully and follow, any deviation and you will have bigger problems.

 

[jjoos99]

I screw up and thought that flatworms were flat worms. I turned on the carbon to pull it out of my system. I have read a thread where people are using levamisole found in prohibit animal dewormer. Anyone know if this works on aefw?
thanks
Jeff

 

[dg3147]

I screw up and thought that flatworms were flat worms. I turned on the carbon to pull it out of my system. I have read a thread where people are using levamisole found in prohibit animal dewormer. Anyone know if this works on aefw?
thanks
Jeff

I just tried the in take levamisole treatment. Never killed the worms --it did though eventually kill all the sps corals.

 

[jjoos99]

How long did it take to kill off the corals? The threads I have read so far have it as a save all for their tanks.
Jeff

 

[dg3147]

Don't do it Jeff. Take a look at my home page thread. I dosed for a few weeks with escalating doses. The entire time I could see live adults cruising around on the corals. It never affected them. No die off at all. Then after a few weeks massive coral die off. All sps, not just acros. Not a single aefw died.

 

[marinelife]

The only thing that seemed to work for me was to remove the acropora and the rock it was on. Remove the Acro from the rock and frag it. Dip the frag and remount it to a different rock. Add it back to the tank. I have found the adult flatworms die from the dip but the eggs do not. The eggs for me were always around the base of the acropora and near by on the rocks. This is why I remounted them on a new rock. I do not know of anything that can be added to the main tank to kill just AEFWs, all acropora have to be removed. You will take large corals and make them small frags again but they will regrow. You may even trash some that can not be saved. I have been dealing with these pests for more years than I can remember but feel I may have no more AEFWs

I also have a Yellow Coris Wrasse and Hoeven's Wrasse that alot of people say eat parasites. I can not say it they helped or not, but they are neat little fish.

 

[jjoos99]

Marinelife what did you dip you corals in once you removed them from the tank?
thanks
jeff

 

[dg3147]

Marinelife what did you dip you corals in once you removed them from the tank?
thanks
jeff

"Bayer Advanced" is what many people use. It's an insecticide for lawn care, but seems to be gentle and thorough. Nothing kills the eggs.

 

[jjoos99]

I put a melanarus wrasse in my tank but it must be hiding or didn't make it. Haven't seen him for several days. I have aefw so the mandarin might not do me any good
Tks
Jeff

 

[jjoos99]

"Bayer Advanced" is what many people use. It's an insecticide for lawn care, but seems to be gentle and thorough. Nothing kills the eggs.

Do you know what the dosages are without me having to dig through posts to find them? I think I can remove several of the rocks that my corals are on to dip. If the bayer works good I would think that you could dip once a week to try and break the egg cycle.
thanks
Jeff

 

[jjoos99]

I purchased from two different online coral suppliers that I thought were reputable and I assumed that they would be clean of pests. Major mistake since that is where I had to have gotten them from. No I have lost almost all of those corals that I bought from them and some of my others are also infested. Lesson learned but it is too late now, I have a major fight ahead of me. I hate to think about cutting off and removing all my corals from the rock work but it might be what I have to do.
Jeff

 

[marinelife]

I used Revive dip