Success with "living with" AEFW - potential predator or different variety of AEFW?

Feed the fish with your baster; that way they'll get used to food being connected to the baster.

On another note, I've thought maybe it might be wise to have LED moonlights for this. If AEFW's are more active at night, then wait an hour after the display lights go off. The fish will probably still be out and about ready to eat, but since the LED's are so dim, the AEFW's may be out and about as well. Furthermore, it's not a bad idea to feed at this time to get your fish used to being out and about for a little bit after lights out. This way you can skip a meal a night or two a week and baste instead. Just my thoughts! :)
 
Maybe yellow coris wrasse or melanaurus wrasse.

I recently discovered AEFW as well

I have tried the MJ1200 basting method

None of my fish seemed to be hungry for the AEFW

I have upgraded to a 120 and have:

1 Yellow Tang
1 Orange shoulder tang
1 lawnmower blenny
2 x ocellaris clown
1 x bellus angel
1 x royal gramma
1 x pajama cardinal
1 x Bangaii cardinal

Any recommendations for another fish that might go after these pests when I baste??

Thanks
 
Hate to say it guys, I just went to observe the tank, and guess what I saw on the glass? You got it, AEFW...Bummer... I guess due to flow being so strong in my tank, it must have been blown off into the glass, where I saw it and collected it. After observation, I basted some millis and other corals which seem to have filamentous type discharge on the coral, I then sucked up 3 more in a baster... These things were huge. Now, ironically, my colors in the tank have never looked better, weird. I suspect they have been there for quite some time, the suspected coral has been with me the longest and has always had this filament whitish discharge, I checked it up to being just irratation, yes, irratation is correct, due to these pests. I do not plan on quarinteen and dip methods, I will continue the basting. Here is my fish list... I will keep you guys posted.

sixline wrasse
yellow coris wrasse
CBB
2 percula clowns
3 green chromis
watchman goby
orchid dottyback.
 
Feed the fish with your baster; that way they'll get used to food being connected to the baster.

On another note, I've thought maybe it might be wise to have LED moonlights for this. If AEFW's are more active at night, then wait an hour after the display lights go off. The fish will probably still be out and about ready to eat, but since the LED's are so dim, the AEFW's may be out and about as well. Furthermore, it's not a bad idea to feed at this time to get your fish used to being out and about for a little bit after lights out. This way you can skip a meal a night or two a week and baste instead. Just my thoughts! :)

Kasey,
Excellent Idea, I will feed exclusively with a baster moving forward. I have captured over 10 large AEFW since discovering them last night. I baste, then watch them get sucked into the water column, then collect with the baster. I then put them into a glass to observe.

Update: I just snagged one at about 1/4", thing was huge... I put into a glass, added tap water to kill/ stun him, put at the tip of the baster, when I went up to the tank, my fish were there to feed. I released the AEFW back into the water, and guess which fish devoured it instantly? My CBB... He is constantly pecking at the rocks and around corals all day, just thought it was worth mentioning. Thanks for all the help guys, my heart sank when I found out last night that I was infected, but as stated before, my corals are growing well and showing awesome coloration. I am really not too concerned at this point, but will update my findings as I move along.
GL to all you others with these bastar*s...
Thanks
 
Kasey,
Excellent Idea, I will feed exclusively with a baster moving forward. I have captured over 10 large AEFW since discovering them last night. I baste, then watch them get sucked into the water column, then collect with the baster. I then put them into a glass to observe.

Update: I just snagged one at about 1/4", thing was huge... I put into a glass, added tap water to kill/ stun him, put at the tip of the baster, when I went up to the tank, my fish were there to feed. I released the AEFW back into the water, and guess which fish devoured it instantly? My CBB... He is constantly pecking at the rocks and around corals all day, just thought it was worth mentioning. Thanks for all the help guys, my heart sank when I found out last night that I was infected, but as stated before, my corals are growing well and showing awesome coloration. I am really not too concerned at this point, but will update my findings as I move along.
GL to all you others with these bastar*s...
Thanks

Congratulations! You are now officially a master-baster!

:D
 
Could you guys explain how you baste the coral. Do you just hit it a few times with a turkey baster? Also I see the bite marks, but have never actually seen any AEFW, but I'm pretty sure thats what going on. They are on mostly my Milli's.

I have a:
Sixline Wrasse
1 Ocellaris Clownfish
Yellow Tang
Diamond Goby
 
I know we just had Joe at our local reef club meeting give a talk. You can find his thread on here the 20,000 gallon tank. But he said something that made me think. The use of fresh water while blasting them. Suck up some RODI water in your turkey blaster and blow off your corals then. The change in water pressure will blow them off and also can kill them at the sametime. Maybe someone can shed more light on this way.
 
Well I blasted a few Acro's today and I think I saw 1 fly off of my ATL Crayola Plana. But I am not positive, another Milli I basted looked like stuff was flying off but it could have been anything really. How can you tell for sure you are getting them?
 
Blast the corals at night, the AEFW seem to be more active during this time. If you found 1, quite sure you will find more. Good luck, keep us posted.
 
I know we just had Joe at our local reef club meeting give a talk. You can find his thread on here the 20,000 gallon tank. But he said something that made me think. The use of fresh water while blasting them. Suck up some RODI water in your turkey blaster and blow off your corals then. The change in water pressure will blow them off and also can kill them at the sametime. Maybe someone can shed more light on this way.

Iteresting thought, I can tell you they die pretty instantly when I put them into contact with tap, RO/DI probably a bit more harsh, if I were to guess. You need RO/DI to top off anyway, might be worth a shot... I have heard of RO/DI dips for corals, for a very quick, like 10 second period of time, but heard it is a last resort too, very harsh on corals. I am not really ready to go to that extreme, other issues I would like t resolove first, lol...like red turf algae...ugh..
 
Iteresting thought, I can tell you they die pretty instantly when I put them into contact with tap, RO/DI probably a bit more harsh, if I were to guess. You need RO/DI to top off anyway, might be worth a shot... I have heard of RO/DI dips for corals, for a very quick, like 10 second period of time, but heard it is a last resort too, very harsh on corals. I am not really ready to go to that extreme, other issues I would like t resolove first, lol...like red turf algae...ugh..


+1 on the RO/DI water stunning the AEFW. I have had them and basting them seemed to be a temporary fix to the situation. I was having problems with the tank thank I'm sure also affected the situation. I have heard that when basted off it takes the AEFW a long time to find a coral again. Could possibly outlast the AEFW's life cycle.


Does anyone know what the life cycle of AEFW is? I have removed all sps from my new display and are in QT. I am sure they are in the rock, sand, etc. just wanted to know if i have no sps in the tank, what duration can i expect to see them eradicated from my system?
 
+1 on the RO/DI water stunning the AEFW. I have had them and basting them seemed to be a temporary fix to the situation. I was having problems with the tank thank I'm sure also affected the situation. I have heard that when basted off it takes the AEFW a long time to find a coral again. Could possibly outlast the AEFW's life cycle.


Does anyone know what the life cycle of AEFW is? I have removed all sps from my new display and are in QT. I am sure they are in the rock, sand, etc. just wanted to know if i have no sps in the tank, what duration can i expect to see them eradicated from my system?


Ric,I would count on 4 to 6 weeks to be safe.they would be starved out by then.the tank has to be completely acro free for that to work effectively.
good luck man
 
I said it on a few other threads already, but I found out for 100% that I have AEFW today. I dipped a heavily infected Milli in Seachem coral disinfectant in a white bowl and after I was done there they were at the bottom. I dipped the Milli and a green polyp Birdnest that looked like it had bites. Do AEFW affect birdnest? Because I didn't notice any after I dipped that, but it had wgat definitely looked like bite marks. And the Milli started to produce a mucous or something, it almost looked like the tiny AEFW were disolving or something. I didn't find any huge ones which I contribute to my Sixline Wrasse eating them.
 
Mine didn't go after my birdsnest and it was right next to the millies. With the thousands of different AEFW it can happen im sure.
 
Iteresting thought, I can tell you they die pretty instantly when I put them into contact with tap, RO/DI probably a bit more harsh, if I were to guess. You need RO/DI to top off anyway, might be worth a shot... I have heard of RO/DI dips for corals, for a very quick, like 10 second period of time, but heard it is a last resort too, very harsh on corals. I am not really ready to go to that extreme, other issues I would like t resolove first, lol...like red turf algae...ugh..
 
Birds nest is Seriatopora sp., so I don't think Acropora eating flatworms can affect those.

Does anyone know where to buy fluke tabs at? I've heard that they're discontinued and am having trouble finding them.
 
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