RPS all-out... take 2 !

[rtbm]

don't do it guys. :thumbsup: Keep this one on track please. Lots of people interested in his results.

 

[karsseboom]

I and many other members find this fascinating, although I have not posted.

After seeing many of your post, it seems only right that if you can bust other member chops must be fair game right?

Dude grow up. This is not about busting people's chops. We are supposed to be informing people.

If your going to try and "bust my chops" atleast have a valid reason. You are trying to correct me, when I was correcting the OP.

 

[Chriskid]

don't do it guys. :thumbsup: Keep this one on track please. Lots of people interested in his results.

+1

please

 

[bobssecrtsn]

Gees, it's a experiment. If you don't have something nice to say gtfo. The OP wants to run some test and share his experience. So keep your nonsense to yourself kthnx

 

[KeithB]

We're missing 4/2's pics. Please keep this going, its an awesome thread and it attempts to answer a question a lot of us have!

 

[Moser]

Agreed. Your photography skills are great.
What is your setup to keep reproducible macro shots of the same field?..

Mo

 

[reefmutt]

This thread is actually too important for it to get derailed.. I'm very interested in the results of this painstaking process..
Nice work, I'd hate to be pulling a coral out of my tank over and over to take photos..
Thanks for doing this!

 

[aqua80]

We're missing 4/2's pics. Please keep this going, its an awesome thread and it attempts to answer a question a lot of us have!

here it is, not much change, the "thing" I saw on the 4/1 pics is gone...

I'll redo a comparison pic tonight...

Agreed. Your photography skills are great.
What is your setup to keep reproducible macro shots of the same field?..

Mo

This thread is actually too important for it to get derailed.. I'm very interested in the results of this painstaking process..
Nice work, I'd hate to be pulling a coral out of my tank over and over to take photos..
Thanks for doing this!

actually it is not that bad to do !!
The mille is in my frag tank, in a position ready to photograph the eggs... no need to touch the coral !
I have a tripod set up in front of my frag tank and I just take a daily pic like the one above, shining the eggs with a flaslight...

After that I select the two pics I want to compare in iphoto (mac) and zoom in to have about the same field of view...

 

[reefmutt]

Awesome!!
I love it.
Looks like you have a nice fish/man cave..
Very jealous!!

 

[tuawcxs]

I copied this from another forum. Hope it helps:

"AEFW life cycle:
I allowed a frag plug with a lot of AEFW eggs on it to hatch and grow. It appears that AEFW have a very long incubation period - 3-4 weeks. It takes another 2 weeks for the AEFW to reach a size where they start munching on corals (about 1/8"), and about another week until they are mature enough to start laying eggs. By 4-5 weeks, the AEFW is reaching old age, and it appears that the adults all die before their eggs hatch."

 

[Allmost]

I copied this from another forum. Hope it helps:

"AEFW life cycle:
I allowed a frag plug with a lot of AEFW eggs on it to hatch and grow. It appears that AEFW have a very long incubation period - 3-4 weeks. It takes another 2 weeks for the AEFW to reach a size where they start munching on corals (about 1/8"), and about another week until they are mature enough to start laying eggs. By 4-5 weeks, the AEFW is reaching old age, and it appears that the adults all die before their eggs hatch."

I dont know if I can buy that ... according to above, if I did 4 dips, 1 week apart, I should be AEFW free. cause I assume they do not lay eggs again till they are adults ?
not sure I could be wrong


once again, thanks to Aqua for this great experiment

 

[Duc1098]

Very interested in this experiment and very well done. Completely unbiased and just the results doing the talking. Thanks for taking the time to photograph and document this for the rest of the reefing community Aqua80.

 

[mayjong]

thanks!
been watching too!

 

[aqua80]

thanks for the kind words, just wish to have something to show you someday ...

mille is encrusting, coraline is growing, eggs still there taunting us...

 

[naldopr]

tagging

 

[Acronic]

awesome thread

The "hatched" eggs surrounding the "unhatched" eggs troubles me... They appear to be in uniform lines and patterns leading me to believe they are from the same batch and time laid... Does anyone else feel this way?

Why didnt these eggs hatch aswell? Are they duds?

again thanks for the time you take to update us

 

[aqua80]

awesome thread

The "hatched" eggs surrounding the "unhatched" eggs troubles me... They appear to be in uniform lines and patterns leading me to believe they are from the same batch and time laid... Does anyone else feel this way?

Why didnt these eggs hatch aswell? Are they duds?

again thanks for the time you take to update us

yes that's another thing that bothers me too...
don't know the normal success rate of aefw eggs to hatch...
it's clear we will have to do more tests to draw some conclusions...

 

[reefkeeper2]

This is really great. What would really nail it though would be a control. A coral with eggs that has not been treated that could be compared with the treated one. I think the verdict would come much faster because we could see what the normal development looks like. It's not too late if you have some more eggs on another coral. I bet you would see changes in just a few days in viable eggs.

 

[TimothyJ]

This is really great. What would really nail it though would be a control. A coral with eggs that has not been treated that could be compared with the treated one. I think the verdict would come much faster because we could see what the normal development looks like. It's not too late if you have some more eggs on another coral. I bet you would see changes in just a few days in viable eggs.

This is a great idea. Thanks again to the OP for doing this.

 

[aqua80]

This is really great. What would really nail it though would be a control. A coral with eggs that has not been treated that could be compared with the treated one. I think the verdict would come much faster because we could see what the normal development looks like. It's not too late if you have some more eggs on another coral. I bet you would see changes in just a few days in viable eggs.

Thought about that too, but haven't found other eggs (except on that millepora) "sadly" ...

if someone wants to do the same with eggs not dipped that would be great indeed...