Red Planet Growth

[tankaddict]

Thanks addict; I bought a new pocc frag and as soon as I placed it in the tank my angel fish came right over and started picking at it. All day I have been trying to catch him out. I really think my sps will appreciate his eviction.

Yeah, after i evicted my flame angel my PE is out of this world. It was a pain in the *** catching him. I spent days trying to catch it, at one point i even tried fishing him out. In the end i tore down the rock work to catch him. Keep those pics comming.

 

[blakers82]

There's some polyp extension there. Colors seem pretty good with just the flash too. I trust your colors are better than the pics too! I've seen that first hand on numerous tanks, mine included. I'm not the best photog.

And angels aren't always angels, are they?

 

[celebrityovernight]

Have you tried dipping in rx for aefw? It could just be me, but that second to last picture looks like it has a lot of bite marks.

 

[LawmanRob]

Have you tried dipping in rx for aefw? It could just be me, but that second to last picture looks like it has a lot of bite marks.

Celeb, right now I hate you but thank you for you spotting that. I decided to take a better look at my acros and noticed the same marks. I pulled one acro from the tank and found a small cluster of eggs and a AEFW on the bottom. I am off to my LFS to get a bottle of Rx. Thanks again for spotting that I guess posting these pictures is a blessing in disguise.

 

[BuckeyeTodd]

Have you tried dipping in rx for aefw? It could just be me, but that second to last picture looks like it has a lot of bite marks.

Wow good eye. The first pic looks to have some too.

Good luck Rob, AEFW is a beast to deal with man. Think out your plan of attack. I set up a qt to treat, but I didn't let it get established...unfortunately I lost all my acros. So think out a plan and take it slow. I rushed and set up a qt and dipped and stressed my corals too much too quick, and a few days later I filled a trash can with acros. Your not going to lose stuff overnight, so if it takes you two weeks to get everything set up its worth it. Better to lose a couple to aefw, than everything to qt crashing.

 

[LawmanRob]

Thanks Todd, I just happened to be building a frag tank. It should be cycled by next weekend. After inspecting all acros, I found two with very small clutches of eggs, nothing nearly as bad as I have seen posted here on RC. I scraped all the eggs and found just two AEFW's. I just don't understand how they got in my tank, I dip everything before I place a coral my display. I went over ever inch of the corals w/ a 10x jewelers loupe and I am fairly certain that the infestation is or was very small.