Blue Millie in Distress

[jnfallon]

Apparently they take a while to create plague proportions, and because they're invisble for the most part, people dont realize they have them. We all blamed alk or temp or stn.

 

[Spracklcat]

Re: the Canon (this thread is three in one): No, no macro yet. Just got the body this weekend and I'm using my old stock lens from my regular non-digital Canon. My dad has a ton of lenses, and Anthony does of course so I'll get to borrow. I've been fooling around with a mesoscope-camera adapter, but to be honest I still think a good macro takes a better shot. I'm more looking forward to using it with the microscope--there are SO many things you never knew were beautiful until you look at them with magnification.

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(commence jokes about each other's anatomy)

 

[Reef Junkie]

So, like nudibranchs on montipora, the coral loses it's color and they start eating a line across the coral?

Well, congratz Christine. I am green with envy!:bounce3: :bounce3: :bounce3:

 

[Spracklcat]

I get spoiled.

Now I just have to learn to be a good enough photographer that having a good camera makes a difference.

 

[diverrad]

Hey Lonnie did the milly rtn over a short time or did it first lose the color and then slowly started to go? I only ask since the AEFL tend to take their time in killing a coral and also Millies are not their fist choise of food, i think you have a tricolor in there that they would go for first.

 

[JB NY]

I wouldn't jump to the conclusion that the cause was AEFW. If it is bleaching from the base up, that is sort of weird as most temp induced bleaching doesn't necessarily come from the bottom up. but I have seen AEFW move from the base up, but mostly from the the crevices of the branches.

If it is STN from the base that eventually leads to some bleaching of the rest of the coral. That is actually commonly seen from flow problems around the coral. Unfortunately it is one of those symptoms that shows itself when things have hit a critical mass for the coral and many times the coral will not recover, but not always.

In all honesty, sometime a pic of the coral in the tank is helpful, many times there are reasons that the coral goes that have to do with proximity to other corals that you might not notice until something starts to go wrong.

No offence taken Bill! :lol:

 

[jnfallon]

i cant believe we are debating this.

It takes 20 minutes to test for aefw. I'm not saying Lonnie has flatworms, i'm saying he can know for sure in 20 minutes.

 

[JB NY]

I think you should test as well. AEFW are all over the place at this point.

 

[jnfallon]

I did Joe, last month, and found I was infested despite not adding anything for about a year. Thats why I am like chicken little - crying the sky is falling - trying to raise awareness about these bastards.

 

[JB NY]

This is just like red bugs. No one thought they had them, eventually everyone realized that almost everyone does.

 

[jnfallon]

yep, only red bugs are easily beatable. These things are not. Yet.

 

[Reef Junkie]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=9955163#post9955163 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by jnfallon
I did Joe, last month

:lmao:

Alright already, Lonnie, please dip one of your corals. I will also do the same. Let's rule this out before fallon does anybody else!:lol:

jk bro.

Joe,
Thanks for your insight as well. I hope fallon is wrong, but I'll thank him if he's right.