Can red bugs do this or do i have AEFW?!?! PLEASE HELP pics inside

[exoticaquatix]

while i was tearing my tank apart to save the last shrimp from a RB treatment, i notice the back side of one of my acro colonies looked like this. i did the lugols dip and sprayed the whole colony down with a large syringe. it has a much more forceful stream of water than a baster but did not see and AEFW in the bottom of the white (now slightly orange) bowl. could this be tissue damage from the RBs or do i need to isolate this colony and see what becomes of it? right now it is in a bucket with a small power head. please help!!!!!!!

-nick

 

[Znut Reefer]

Never seen RB do damage like that. If you didn't see the AEFW come off in the dip. I would think thats not the problem either. Did any other acros have this damage?

 

[exoticaquatix]

none of my other colonies showed any thing like this. i did come across a small group of flat worms on a monti frag tho. they all moved together when i poked one of them, very weird. i blew them all off into a bowl to take pics but my camera is dead and i really need to get some sleep. there was no noticable damage to the monti either. unfortunatly i cant post pics bigger than 50k, I just came to the realization i need to turn down the resolution on my camera to fix that. ill take some pics of the worms tomorrow if they are alive. i really hope that damage was caused by RBs because i dont think i can handle another tear down like i did tonight, that shrimp was on the last F-ing piece of rock i pulled out. not to mention my clam spawned two nights ago, and i found my Solar wrasse ive had for a year on the floor tonight. my livingroom is a mess! my tank is a mess! im a wreck and judging from all the detritus under my rocks im about to hop on the "Bare Bottom Band Wagon" for my 120. you can quote me on that!
Off to bed, i hope the parasite gurus can help me out. ill post more pics as needed.
-nick

 

[exoticaquatix]

someone, anyone please help. i need to know if RBs or someother factor could cause this. it was the dark side of the coral and flow may not have been very good as it was close to the back glass. the rest of the colony looks fine aside from a few branches that had irregular growth and seemed very brittle. i broke the bad half off the colony today to see if i could find any flat worms and still none. since there is a treatment for the AEFW now id like to use it but only if i knw for sure i have them. any ideas? thanks.
-nick

 

[Dejavu]

It looks like AEFW. lugols dips will do nothing on AEFW. look for egg at the base of the acro. TMPCC should kill AEFW. i worked for me. Make sure you do a search theres alott of good info out there and many different treatment. some work and some don't.

 

[manderx]

lugols + waterblast should have knocked dozens off if there were enough flatworms to cause that much damage.

 

[Vanquish]

The orange you see in the bowl are dead flatworms...

 

[exoticaquatix]

no, im sure they were red bugs, i just finished up the flatworm chapter in zoology no sign of any more tissure recession but im keeping a close eye on it. hopefully it was a flow/red bug issue.
thanks for the input guys.
-nick

 

[dreaminmel]

FWIW, when I dealt w/ the RB they were on most of my sps but my green A. abrotanoids in particular was their favorite. That frag looked damaged exactly the same way your above photo did. Before treatment it had at least 50 bugs on it...

Ever since treatment it healed back up and looks excellent.

 

[chadm]

I'm treating for RB right now and all my affected Acro's have that same damage.

 

[blstravler]

Have you checked all of your water param's?

Are these areas of the corals in less light then the rest of the colony?