Wanted: Redbugs and AEFW

bkv1997

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I know this is a strange request, but I hear such horror storries about these things I'd love to see them with my own eyes so I'd know what to look for in my own system or when treating.

If anyone has a frag that is for sure infected with the above I'd pay for a piece, not much but I would just so i know what to look for.

If you don't feel comfortable posting here please send me a PM.

Thanks
Brandon
 
all the bad news people always are posting about them.. i have went to great lengths to not get them, but still worry every time something just doesn't look right.

Small price to pay for piece of mind.
 
Here are some pics of the red bugs.

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You don't usually see AEFW's, but you see the signs (bite marks). Not the best pic (had them a little over a year ago, so pre good camera;)).
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The thread Randy posted is the best I now of as far as pictures go. If you would have posted a few weeks ago I would have donated some AEFW infected frags but most of the colonies they would have come from are dead now:rolleyes:

Also FWIW that's the reason I put you off for several months now as far as frags go....I had recently hoped to get everything treated by the swap but alas it wasn't to be.

Chris
 
When I read the title of the thread I thought it was for a display to be set up at the swap. I think that would be a good thing to have set up if anyone had any critters hangin out in there tank. Have a small tank set up (pico maybe) with some infected frags and a magnafying glass so folks could get a look for themselves just how tiny thease things are.

Out of all the pictures I have looked at on-line IMO they still don't honestly portray how stinkin tiny red bugs are. I totally NEVER saw them on my orange digi that had been stunted for a long time but after the 3 red bug treatments I did it amazingly started coloring up and growing again.
I don't think I would have ever saw them on my SPS unless I hadn't noticed them on my LPS in a white form. ( I know they are not suppose to but I have pics!!) Only then did I really look hard at my SPS up close and crosseyed then I saw them!

Brandon, I know you got some zoas from me at the January frag swap and this is where I "think" I got them from a bleached out, cheap SPS frag I got last min. But who knows, I may have had them longer and it was just coincidence things started looking bad the months following the swap....
Just thought I would remind you I had them in case you hadn't seen any of my past postings when I treated for them a few months back.

Funny how having a bug makes you feel all dirty and ashamed like you caught some sort of tank STD :lol: But alas, I took my 3 pills and now should be clean once again, but my poor reputation is ruined. I should have listened to my mother, trading around with a ton of different people will ruin your reputation and probably give you a disease ;) :lol:
 
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If you look at the 6 o'clock area you can see the white dust looking buggs that looked just like the red ones on the SPS in size, movement aand all just white on LPS...
 
Yea angela I really wanted them for me, but was also going to put them in a nano for the swap... Of course because of the whole STD feeling I planned on keeping everyone anonymous.

Yea i treat everything coming pretty heavy to the point I wonder sometimes how they make it. HEHE. Just gotta think with everyone else getting them I can't still be that lucky.

Brandon
 
As long as we are confessing:

Hi. My name is Scott and I have hydriods. :(

On the plus side, I can give you a small rock with those to show at the frag swap. :D
 
I had hydroids in my nano and was "VERY CAREFULL" to not hurt the cool live stuff on the rock everytime I fooled with the tank. :rolleyes:

Then they started touching my evilmels and mealting them and I knew something was bad wrong to mealt those suckers!

I think a tank set up with bad things to show all the new guys is a great idea because so many new folks are at swaps. Seems like nobody had no bad things to donate which is a good thing.
 
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