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