Please give advice.... Whole system treatment for aefw/redbugs/planaria

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Well, about 2 months ago I had a massive Ich outbreak and lost 90% of my fish. I have since moved all remaining fish to a 90g QT tank. Now the tank has been fallow for about 1 month.

Recently I have noticed very little polyp extension on my Mike Paletta Turquoise Lovelli, and sadly I see some very small reddish colored bugs on this piece. I also have a Garf Bonsai, and an ORA Red Planet that I see the aefw "bite marks" appearing on.

I also have some small flatworms on my glass that are multiplying quickly. They don't have the reddish color that I believe planaria's do, but I am assuming they are pests and need to be dealt with.

So, basically I want to do an overhaul on my system while it is fallow, and treat for all unwanted pests.
What is the best way to accomplish this?

Interceptor for redbugs, Flatworm Exit for Flatworms, and a lot of water changes?

Anyone who has gone through this, please lend some advice. Im hoping to leave everything in this tank, and treat as an entire system rather than QT acros, etc... Is this possible?

Thanks sooooo much.
Here is a recent FTS:

tank is 48x30x20 = 120g + 60g sump.

 

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Anyone?

 

[LifeAquatic]

Fisrt Advice is to dip all your new corals before putting them in the display tank. Second, make sure you know what pest you have. Its hard to recommend a treatment without knowing what pest you have for sure. Red bugs are treated with interceptor. Interceptor is an in tank treatment. Red Planaria can be killed with Salifirt flat wrom exit. AEFW is a really bad pest. There is no in tank treatment for AEFW. You can dip your infected corals and transfer to QT. Then you can dip them once a week for 2 months until all AEFW are gone. There are a few good dips.. Revive and Coral RX are the most forgiving on SPS. Hope that helps. Good luck

 

[Logzor]

It sounds like the red bug treatment is pretty straightforward but AEFW is another story if you have them.

If you indeed have AEFW you will want to remove all of your acropora corals and dip them weekly for at least 6 weeks (some recommend dipping more often or a staged dipping). You need to have them in an easily accessible form, ideally, independent colonies that you can pick up, inspect, and dip easily on a regular basis. You have to be able to inspect them and scrape off egg if they are there.

I think it is impossible to get rid of them unless they are removed and placed into a QT system.

 

[Ostentum]

There is a pig dewormer that you can use to treat the aefw but it is very very hard on your corals. Blue velvet nudis will eat AEFW and regular flatworms but thats the only thing they eat. They will die shortly after a food supply disappears.

 

[edandsandy]

If they die in your tank, how toxic is it to our tanks???

 

[doca]

what a about a six line wrasse???