Please Tell me this isn't AEFW
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xtlosx
Just Reefin'
holy crap, that is absolutely AEFW... I recently thought I had AEFW but can't confirm because I'm not seeing quite the bite marks you are. I still haven't found eggs, but you clearly have, and bayer dipping yields no AEFW...
Good luck, and what are your plans for ridding them from your DT?
Good luck, and what are your plans for ridding them from your DT?
Hentz
New member
It won't hurt to dip them man! You never know!
I used revive last night. Quite harsh on the corals unfortunately.
Though on the bright side, all my new frags are showing polyp extension including the bonsai acro and random Ora frag. They're white, but have PE. So hopefully it worked.
I HEAVILY scaled the tank last night with a flash light and magnifying glass. No other coral seems to have any eggs or bite marks. Going to buy a springer damsel and coris wrasse for precautions.
Piper27
I love bengals
Did you dip all your acros? Are you going to continue to dip the corals for a number of weeks to make sure they are gone? I don't think using fish as precautions will do much for you in the long run, thoes things are smart little creatures and will outsmart you if you don't take action. And doing weekly dips now rather than later will be better since their numbers are down.
xtlosx
Just Reefin'
well perfect, I had a frag that looked off, so I pulled it, dipped, nothing acme off, but when I broke off a branch deep down inside of the growth areas there was some dead tissue, and I saw eggs. Probably a good thing I'm starting up a frag tank here in the next month or so. Will have to deal with it until then (nothing else looks affected) and then just dip dip dip to get through it.
trueblackpercula
New member
Ok this has to be the 5 or 6th thread this week about aefw. I have a question do you dip your sps when you first get them and what do you use? also I am so sorry and hope it works out for you.
Hentz
New member
Yeah.. Sorry for making it the 5th or 6th.. lol. I don't. I have a few, but figured I'm good. Though I can assure from here on out, everything will be dipped.
xtlosx
Just Reefin'
The problem is just that, dipping isn't going to simply stop this. I dip very very religiously every single new frag I get. I use Bayer dip, with a high concentration and for a longer period of time. It will kill ANYTHING on the frags.... except eggs. Bayer doesn't do anything to the aefw eggs. That's what got me for sure because I didn't see anything right away.
Coming up shortly, I'm going to setup a QT which is the only way to get rid of these bastards in the future. Everything new goes into the QT for 6-8 weeks for observation, and a dipping regime...
The myth that dipping alone is enough if you want to keep SPS long term pest free (while adding new stuff) is a myth.. There's a lot of proof out there for this unfortunately.
xtlosx
Just Reefin'
That's what I have been doing now (minus the LED flashlight which I might pick up). Anything suspect in my DT that isn't LE or rare, gets garbaged. I can get everything locally for essentially nothing, and it's not even worth it.
