Bad few days :(

[bigbuckdown]

So i wrote a thread on my DIY LEDs and i thought the reason i was losing color was my lights because they slowly started fading for the past few months even though ive had my lights for 1 1/2 years. So i started noticing a big colony wasnt extending its polyps and also lost alot of color. Why was nothing happening to my purple slimer and its growing like crazy and colorful. ill give you one guess on whats going on...................AEFW AHHHHHHHHH. I was blowing off some sand from around the corals and saw this big thing come off. sucked it up and put in a cup and there it was. its impossible to take out all my acros because i cannot set up a qt in my apartment so i ordered some of that zeo flatworm stop and figured a wrasse is in my future along with basting acros with ro/di water and heavy flow basting. first time in 10 years i have EVER had this happen and its not fun

 

[vanbro1]

Sorry dude... thats a big bummer

 

[Max13004]

On a slightly related topic I do some work with LED's on Sci Fi models (lighting engines on X-wing fighters, lighting schemes on Star Trek models, etc...) and LED's are a huge part of this. One topic that is asked every so often is why do my LED's tend to get dim over time. The answer usually is simple. Check your resistance values. If their not large enough over time you can slowly burn out the LED. Better to have more to prevent this effect. Also heat emitting from the system acts like a pot of boiling water with a cover on it. LED light strips are doomed by nature unless there is some mechanism for temperature stabilization inside the light strip itself.
I know it's my first post but I've been doing this for 27 years....seen lights come and go. Hope this helps someone out there.

 

[bigbuckdown]

Has anyone tried the blue velvet slug to eradicate AEFW? I need some advise to try and control these without a QT