My own AEFW (Acro Eating Flatworms) images
- Thread starter melev
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wow so friendly...
anyways. i think we had these at work the other week. they looked the same. and seemed to hang out on an acrofrag and no where else. ( acro didnt look to hot either)
but a african lepord wrase ate them all and the coral is doing better.
yeah i know you said it wont touch it. but is it possiable for there to be exceptions. kinda like how only a few pepermint shrimp touch aiptasia.,
( coral was in a 20 gallon frag tank with just the acro and a few lps)
anyways. i think we had these at work the other week. they looked the same. and seemed to hang out on an acrofrag and no where else. ( acro didnt look to hot either)
but a african lepord wrase ate them all and the coral is doing better.
yeah i know you said it wont touch it. but is it possiable for there to be exceptions. kinda like how only a few pepermint shrimp touch aiptasia.,
( coral was in a 20 gallon frag tank with just the acro and a few lps)
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wfgworks
Premium Member
Hey guys, I'm one trying to read all these threads and havent gotten through all. Many different threads and SO MANY pages.
What would be great is if a MOD or someone put a sticky in the SPS forum with a summary as to where we are at in treating, what has been tried with results, ect. Basically a summary to date.
It than could be updated when new information is discovered.
It will help redue, was this tried, what about this medication, what was the dosing with that medication and so on.
Just an idea
What would be great is if a MOD or someone put a sticky in the SPS forum with a summary as to where we are at in treating, what has been tried with results, ect. Basically a summary to date.
It than could be updated when new information is discovered.
It will help redue, was this tried, what about this medication, what was the dosing with that medication and so on.
Just an idea
Do you have a link to the fish ? (or the latin name for it ? as many fish can share a common name) Where did you get it ?
Did you have to blow off the AEFWs to get the wrasse to eat them ? or did it nip them right off of the coral ? Was any "training" involved ? (in other threads other "nratural predator wrasses" needed to be "Trained" to hunt out the AEFWs, basically by giving them a "taste" by blowing the pests into the water column fo the fish to eat). Please provide some details as it is definitely promising.
Other wrasses have been reported to eat the AEFWs on a hit and miss basis, and just about all will do it when the AEFWs are floating in the water column. I do agree that it may be like peppermint shrimp and aiptasia, but on that topic the shrimp from the Atlantic are more prone to eating the hydroids (never had one fail, as long as it was confirmed from the right region). We all know that for the most part no 2 fish/shrimp/critters are 100% alike in their appetites.
Thanks for sharing
Betadine works great and it's pretty cheap. You can find it at about any grocery store or pharmacy. It has 10% providine-iodine. The mix is 3ml betadine for every liter of water. Soak for a max of 25 minutes, then rinse the coral with clean saltwater. I tested this with about 30 frags and did not have any casualties.
I just finished setting up the 75 g and moved over all my acros, (man did that suck). Will probably dose the tank with betadine tonight or tomorrow.
I just finished setting up the 75 g and moved over all my acros, (man did that suck). Will probably dose the tank with betadine tonight or tomorrow.
melev
Well-known member
Here's the working link, without the period at the end.
http://www.safety.vanderbilt.edu/pdf/hcs_msds/betadine_solution 7_05.pdf
http://www.safety.vanderbilt.edu/pdf/hcs_msds/betadine_solution 7_05.pdf
thankx for link...
i think i wana try this solution this time
i've been doing pro-cure treatments for past 4 month ,on and off... after 2 month my pink milli re-infected again... last nite i desided to check this milli and dang!!!! they back...those devils
(
but, if u look at this milli ,u will never know this coral got aefw.. clor is great ,pe is great..no signs at all..go figure
gonna get this solution..
mike
i think i wana try this solution this time
i've been doing pro-cure treatments for past 4 month ,on and off... after 2 month my pink milli re-infected again... last nite i desided to check this milli and dang!!!! they back...those devils
(but, if u look at this milli ,u will never know this coral got aefw.. clor is great ,pe is great..no signs at all..go figure
gonna get this solution..
mike
Not sure if this is helpful or not but ponder this. What if FW don't just host one type of coral. What if AEFW, are just flatworms that found their way onto your Acros. I have flatworms on a colony of my mushrooms and they've seemed to add a few FWs to my PSPs as well. I have no acros though.
ill try to get the exactname of the fish tomrrow. or better yet a picture since half the things at the store comein under the wrong name ( wholesale dosnt name anything right so the names just keep getting passed down.. )
we didnt train the wrase but we did have him in another tank with some other type of flatworms when he wasin htere it was a few days before he started eating them. maybe it jsut took him time to warm up to them as food,. but once he was in with the aefw he went right for them. but agian this was a small tank and they were the only food source
we didnt train the wrase but we did have him in another tank with some other type of flatworms when he wasin htere it was a few days before he started eating them. maybe it jsut took him time to warm up to them as food,. but once he was in with the aefw he went right for them. but agian this was a small tank and they were the only food source
Shooter7
New member
Hi guys, I'm kinda new to the SPS scene, but upon reading about A. valida being one of the first to go in a tank, and me watching mine fade away, I thought I'd post a couple of pics to see if you could verify for me what I think I might already know.
and a cluster of tiny green little round things....eggs?
I have been studying this little frag under a magnifying glass and still haven't spotted any actual FW's. If you think that I have these guys, can someone direct me towards a good treatment plan? There are hundreds and hundreds of posts on these. All I have right now is probably a half dozen or so small acro frags that would need to be treated. Would putting them in a separate tank and treating them there be the easiest? And would leaving them out of the display for a certain period kill what's in the tank? thanks for any help
and a cluster of tiny green little round things....eggs?
I have been studying this little frag under a magnifying glass and still haven't spotted any actual FW's. If you think that I have these guys, can someone direct me towards a good treatment plan? There are hundreds and hundreds of posts on these. All I have right now is probably a half dozen or so small acro frags that would need to be treated. Would putting them in a separate tank and treating them there be the easiest? And would leaving them out of the display for a certain period kill what's in the tank? thanks for any help
