How secure are the eggs attached? I wonder if having a large pump or powerhead in hand and "pressure wash" them off would work.

Never. A very firm toothbrush might do it. As far as I can tell, the corals with eggs on them are gone.

is that the one that had the flatworm exit dip, then the fresh water dip then the air dry method? :mrgreen:

Steve

to elaborate on this I tried scraping them off with my fingernail and it was fairly hard. they are on there good.

Steve

The oven method works well, although the corals don't handle it well! :razz:

Brad, glad you found your problem. How did you find these?!

I know it's easy for me to say, especially what you've gone through, but don't give up.

Can you start a new thread about these things in the Reef Forum?

We went to look at the eggs under the scope and after staring at the different parts of the coral to see if we could see anything else Brad saw the coral flesh move. I of course thought he was on nyquill or something cuz nothing moved for the minit I looked but then I saw it and then we turned into the mad scientests trying to make flatworms explode.. never got that much excitment though but it is pretty interesting to watch what happens to a flat worm when you put fresh water on it under the microscope. :mrgreen:

Steve

I've emailed the local people interested in acropora and described the "new plan". Please check your registered emails, you know who you are. :razz:

Did you send me one?

Steve

I thought so, but maybe I forgot :razz: I'll copy you on it.

I might have some of those flatworms as well. I placed a rock (that use to have a living acro attached) into a bucket of fresh water and saw a number of clear flatworms drop off.

Sam, do you notice any recession on your existing acros? As withthe red bugs, I suspect more people have them than realize. Although I don't think they're as commn as the red bugs.

I have some very slow recession on the tips of a couple of frags. Its actually not the first time I've seen these clear flatworms. I've had them for a while as I remember seeing them whenever I freshwater-dip some liverock bits. I just never thought it might be doing damage to Acros before. But maybe they are afterall.

Wow I have been out of the loop on this one!
Sorry to hear about your situation Brad :cry:
I hope things take a turn for the better now.
I had seen some regression on the stalk of my purpletip bottlebrush colony the other day, thought maybe it stressed after a slight salinity swing, then after reading your thread I went to the tank pulled out the PB and gave it a dip. Sure enough I had two flatworms on the base drop off, they were about the size of a small pod. Well after reading your post I think I'm not gonna take any chances, tomorrow all the sps are getting dipped-but not oven baked :razz:
Keep us updated on how things go!
cheers, Rich

Rich, I think we'll see more of these as time goes on. Treating corals before they go in our tanks will need to become a hait, I'm afraid.
I pretty much have no more acropora in my tank, although hopefully I've spread them around enough to get most of my favorites back in the spring.
The other corals are doing fine, and hopefully I'll have the new tank setup shortly for the transfer.

Yeah I have to agree with you there Brad, it seems like more and more as time goes on. Maybe one reason for this increase is due to all the aquacultured corals, I mean if we all have corals and rock from different regions of the world, eventually I'm sure we would be spreading a wider variety of bugs within our systems. So maybe we need to all start quarintining or treating our frags before we buy or sell them :confused:

Goodluck with the transfer, I prey to the coral gods that all go's well for ya. I'm sure all those corals you gave away or traded will find a way back into your new tank, except for Steve that is-you may have a hard time prying some of those prized colonies out of his fins :razz: :mrgreen:

Also, when I took out the purpletip bottlebrush tonight for a 2nd closer inspection, I found another small flatworm on the base. I made a drastic decission to cut the table branches off the mother stalk, I know this is risky but I didn't see any other choice. The tissue loss has taken at least two weeks to cause concern. Now however I am worried as this is my second sps coral which is two years old and in the last 6 months I saw some amazing growth patterns. I kinda know how you feel, just in a lot smaller scale :frown:

All the best!
Rich