Losing SPS, need some advice. PICS

I have considered AEFW, but since ruled them out. I've removed colonies dipping them in FWE combined with a 4 drops of Lugol's in about 6 cups of water and left it sitting overnight. Amazingly the coral, the green slimer in the prev pics that started to receed first, made it thru the dip overnight and even stopped receeding for a few days. Mind you it was only a few days. I examined the coral with my magnifying glass as well as examined the left over water from the dip and found nothing. On top of this, i have not added a new SPS for about 4 or 5 months, only additions have been a zoo frag and they got a FW dip. Unless AEFW will lay dormant for 4+ months then start attacking, there are no AEFW in my tank.
 
Ok did a check when i got home, the tort does not show any signs of recession, thats good. Phew. I took a few pics of some of the corals such as the frag above with the yellow polyps. Its encrusted a bunch in just the last few weeks. I'm gonna keep up on the large WCs and phosphate sponge, hope i'm getting the upper hand on this.

The only problem i see now with the corals that are doing well, is the orange monti cap getting some diatom growth on a part of its edge. I've been basting it off and it comes off pretty easily. Any ideas on how to better handle that?
 
A few pics from tonight. The corals that started receeding continue, but others look real good. Here are a few of both

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Well turns out it is probably AEFW after all. I noticed this frag friday after work

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At least i know what i'm battling now. I made a stand and am putting together a light and overflow for a 10gal QT w/ 10gal sump to move my acros to for 4-5 weeks. I'm going to do weekly TMPCC dips. Wish me luck!
 
At least you now know what you are dealing with.Let us know how things progress , and what you eventually end up using to remove them. I haven't found anything that was 100% effective yet, But I have had decent success at cutting down on their numbers in my tank so far.

I have used a dip of about 25 drops of Lugol's in about 1 gal of water for 10-15 mins to stun the flatworms.Then I proceeded to pick anything off the Acros that was not coral with a toothpick. I did lose 1 acro trying this. I know that this is NOT eliminating the AEFW's, but it is slowing/stopping the recession on my acro's. At this concentration, the AEFW's seem to struggle to get out of the way when I drop the Lugols's in the water...but it just kinda parylizes them for a few mins .


Hoping someone will come up with a 100% effective treatment.
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=7501255#post7501255 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by DarkXerox
That makes more sense, your husbandry seemed fine. So all the montis and other non-acros are fine?
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Yah, all montis are doing fine, so is my last remaining mille. Since they attacked a pink mille and a blue prostrata i assume they will soon go after the last mille. Do you think i'll be ok leaving the montis in the display or will the AEFW migrate to the montis once i remove their main food source?

vapor1 - thanks for the info, i might have to go that route until my TMPCC arrives.
 
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