AEFW Cure

[Frogger]

Apparently Underwater Creations Inc, makers of Vibrant have developed a reef safe in tank control for AEFW. They are due to release their new product within days.

Would be nice if this works. Would save me a lot of sleepness nights. I do not believe I have AEFW but I have found it on several frags I have recently purchased from different suppliers.

Will keep you posted

[DKoKoMan]

*knock on wood* I don’t have these little buggers...that being said they can easily come in on a frag. I’m looking forward to seeing if when this treatment is released how effective. It’s always nice to have in tank solutions.

[SteveConn]

I went through this a few years back, fighting it for over a year with dips including Bayer that I bought in the USA. It was AWFUL and I lost ALL of my hard corals (acro). I went from a beautiful display tank to... well, I am not too pleased with it since I love acro so much. I have lots of plating corals and frogspawn and zoas.
Anyway, it was very sad and beyond frustrating. Unless there is an actual cure, I'd probably just throw out a coral colony at the first sign of infection.

I'd be very interested in this method if it works for future reference.

One thing I always do now is QT everything. Someday I'll get back into acro... just have to get rid of aiptasia and F@cking bubble algae

[Frogger]

After some initial speed bumps they have seemed to have worked out the bugs on this product. Should be available in the next month or two. J@L will be getting it in once it is released.

Apparently it works on monti eating nudis as well.

[kyl]

There's a dip version being put out as well.

[DKoKoMan]

Perfect! I’m hoping someone with AEFW who uses it writes up a review on the effectiveness of the product.

[Frogger]

There are 40 reefers on Reef2reef that volunteered to do trials on it. It was effective on 75% of the tanks at the original dosage. About a quarter of them found that it only reduced the numbers but didnt completely eliminate them. They took those AEFW that were immune and shipped them back to Underwater Creations (makers of Vibrant) and increased the dosage to find what would kill them.

They then increased the dosage on those tanks where the efficiency wasn't 100% and found the right dosage to make it effective on all AEFW encountered. Of the 40 subject reefers who tested they all eventually got 100% control and it appears to not have had any adverse reactions with any desirable reef tank occupants. By product of the testing noted was monti nudis were wiped out as well.

Originally Posted by DKoKoMan

Perfect! I’m hoping someone with AEFW who uses it writes up a review on the effectiveness of the product.

[kien]

Originally Posted by Frogger

... they have seemed to have worked out the bugs on this product. .

Ha, I see what you did there.

[kyl]

The dip is called Expel: https://www.uwcmn.com/expel-coral-cleanse

[Frogger]

"Expel" is not the new AEFW dip. Underwater Creations mentions this in their blog as people are buying multiple bottles of it. I believe it is just a all around dip for cleaning your corals.

The dip and the tank treatment have not been released yet. Likely will take at least a month before its available. They don't even have a name for it.

Takes a while to produce, package and distribute the product. The good news is the tough part has been completed.