Id this, flatworms or red bug damage

[skunkmere]

its started with my frags but now on one of my colonies. Will intercepter work?

thanks guys

 

[KJAhp098]

I'm pretty sure it's not red bugs. They only irritate the coral, not eat it. I've never had aefw so I can't comment on them. Good luck with whatever treatment you do.

 

[skunkmere]

i had this in the past, a couple people said it was ph.

 

[skunkmere]

i just recalibrated my ph probe and my tank's at 7.8 with my lights on at the end of the day. so im going to use a kalk top off to raise my ph, cal, alk. since i ran out of CO2 yesterday.

 

[bigevill1]

that looks just like some of my corals that had AEFW.

 

[skunkmere]

the damage is pretty much only on acros.

 

[bigevill1]

thats how mine was too. It took me weeks to finally find them on the corals and by the time I realized what I had I lost all of them.

 

[skunkmere]

wow i guess i have no choice but to use interceptor. there is no other treatment right?

 

[bigevill1]

You should do a search here on the forums for AEFW. I know there are some threads in the SPS forum too. interceptor will not treat AEFW.

 

[pk1]

Is that damage just on the base? Most of the pictures I have seen on AEFW show the damage on the under side of the branches also. It's not red bugs, and like bigevil1 said interceptor won't do a thing. Try a dip in Tropic Marin Pro Coral cure on 1 of your infected acros, check the bottom of the dip container after your done for any bugs. Do the tips of your acro's have any damage? And when did it start?

 

[twinspots_goby]

red bugs likely to damage smooth skin acros. If it's not red bug problem, you don't have to treat your tank with interceptor. Make sure what is the exact problem before a treatment.

 

[skunkmere]

thanks guys, it starts at the bottom of the corals, it looks like a peeling and tissue receding. it started with some coral last fall. i got revive. and have dipped my frags. im going to look into aefw signs and treatments.

 

[Helter Skilter]

AEWF damage looks like small circles of missing tissue. If you are seeing tissue peeling, it is most likely Alk/pH related IMO.

Try dipping some frags in Marine Melafix, or iodine and see what comes off.

 

[skunkmere]

when i dipped the coral nothing came off, also no circular dead spots, so im back to thinking its ph thing, it is on the low end im using kalk at the moment. so ill keep you guys updated

thanks

 

[ostrow]

I don't even know what I'm supposed to be looking at in the photo. Blurry and not sized particularly well for computer viewing. Just sayin'...

 

[skunkmere]

fixed, i just bumped my levels up and now im waiting for improvement. this may take a couple weeks, hopfully i will see improvement sooner.

 

[ostrow]

I see. Sometimes stuff like this just happens. If it isn't spreading and the rest of the coral has growth, and no other corals seem affected, I just watch things. Well, as long as the alk/cal/mg are not out of whack.

 

[bigevill1]

I thought it was an alk issue myself. Then I finally saw a tri-color acro frag that looked even more like the damage I had seen in pics of AEFWs. I took the frag out and basically covered it in lugos solution. This dyed the AEFW eggs brown so I could see them plainly.

I'm not sayin, I'm just sayin.

 

[Sullyman]

Abel, Joel's right, double check your water params and if ok, just wait it out. I think it maybe a bacterial problem. In my experience you won't lose the coral but it will suffer tissue loss.

 

[skunkmere]

thanks guys. i have been meaning to buy some lugios. ill try that if it gets worse.