I dare not type what I fear this is...

DLANDINO

D.L. Heritage Rings
I am looking for opinions on this please. I am very nervous as to what you all are going to say but I think I already know the answer here. If you need higher resolution pics I can email them to you. Shoot me a pm with your personal email and I can send it along. fingers crossed and thanks.
 

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All that I see is tissue necrosis. I don't see any sign of eggs or bite marks on the tissue. Had AEFW done that much damage, the bare skeleton would be covered in little brown eggs.
 
please keep your suggestions coming and thanks for those so far. Here is a 200 % enlargement of suspect critters
 

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I did have a recent event in the alk department. It was extremely low and I was having a hard time maintaining it. I have corrected it in the past few weeks. I was tipped off to the problem when I started to see STN on the bases og about 60% of my sps colonies. Since correcting the issue I have seen regrowth in all colonies except for 2 which are slowing in their recession but not yet recovering. Pictured is one of the non-recovering colonies. So, I am panicked now thinking that the problem may have been two fold...low dkh AND aefw infestation. I don't see any egg casings either which gave me some hope but then I saw these critters and thought I would get some opinions. Since I noticed the STN I have stopped trading / selling frags as I would not want to spread any issues amongst my friends and will keep it that way for the foreseeable future and until I am sure it is safe to do so. I'll see if I can get some better pics and in the meantime please keep your suggestions coming. It is greatly appreciated!
 
i would not dip the coral right now, that looks more like Alk burn than AEFW. dipping might stress it overboard and lose the colony. if it progresses any further, frag off healthy branches and dip in iodine to help with infection. when fragging be sure to only get healthy tissue on the frag
 
Look like pods to me. Like the other said bite marks or white blotches are usually associated with AEFW or some other pest.
 
see no eggs but they look like hatchlings of aefw to me and i would search for the eggs somewhere at the base of a coral look like a brown patch or just tissue going bad but if you magnify them you will see the eggs , i found out the hard way and did the water parameters check for a week and then the flow as i was told the colony might not be getting the flow needed for a mother colony size about 10" in diameter then the lights well after 3 weeks i pulled it out becuase of the loss in tissue from bottom to top and bamm the eggs where there looking like a patch of brown tissue then i basted the corals and found the worms all over even in the poccilapora which they are not suppose to be in weird wasted time and lost my colony down to a 3inch piece and browning ..will be dipping and qt tank setup this week hope to save my corals and praying..from now on when i get that gut feeling everyone knows what that is when you see your corals and something isn't just right , from now on i go for the baster and magnifying glass or loupe to make sure it isn't buggs then i will go with the water parameters and so on..hope that it is an alk swing or ph problem something simple to fix and not the dreaded beast we now call AEFW.
Roger
 
Pods doing their clean up duties. I've seen it before and a dip will only yield a bunch of dead pods.
 
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