I understand why some reefers suddenly give up and sell!

[marie]

Originally Posted by tang daddy

fwe hurts everything I mentioned up in my post, you should try to pick up the remaining snails during treatment they will be doing the salsa dance.
But before you even think about starting treatment pick as many snails out do it just after the lights go off they're easier to catch.

What snails does FWE kill?? I dosed my 2 small tanks twice using 1 bottle for each tank (3x stronger then called for each time) the only thing I lost was my peppermint shrimp (It didn't even get the flatworms ). I have ceriths,stomatellas and astreas in the tanks and they seemed to make out just fine

[StirCrazy]

Originally Posted by Chaloupa

FW dip an ACRO??? Hmmmm......I have heard that isn't a good idea with acros. But I'll take any advice and further research it...thanks!

I freshwater dipped every acro I had befor it went into my tank. I would take RO water and warm it up to tank temp... grab the acro by the base and swish it around for 20ish seconds. then plop it into the tank. never lost any from that and it was amazing all the crap that came off them.. Just be ready to rescue any acro crabs that fall off.

Steve

[StirCrazy]

Originally Posted by tang daddy

At 15 mins I noticed snails, bristtle worms and amphipods coming out of holes everywhere so I used a long skinny tong to pick these up and throw them out.
And stuff kept popping out and dying huge copepods more bristle
Cheers Chris

so what was this treat ment for? basicily you have also killed your live rock.. hopefully enough bristtle worms, amphipods and other stuff made it to eventualy repopulate your rock.

Steve

[Tom R]

Originally Posted by marie

(3x stronger then called for each time) (It didn't even get the flatworms ).

Marie

Are you saying it did NOT kill the flat worms?

Tom R

[Snappy]

Most iodine based dips like Tropic Marin and seachem work as far as I know but I have read on different boards in the States that Fluke tabs work the best if you can get them.
Check this link for some good info on dealing with them.
http://www.melevsreef.com/aefw.html

Here is another link that also refers to Melevs link and gives another reefer's experience with them.
http://www.reeffrontiers.com/forums/...ad.php?t=25278

[marie]

Originally Posted by Tom R

Marie

Are you saying it did NOT kill the flat worms?

Tom R

Well I still have them, so i guess not

I used half a bottle in each tank, the 50g zoa tank and the 60g cube. A week later they were still there so I treated again. The second time round I didn't do a water change till the next day . I thought that had done the trick but i noticed some a couple of weeks ago.

[tang daddy]

Marie i'm sorry to hear you have not fully erradicate them keep on trying, the eggs may have been missed in treatment!As for snails stommatelles were doing the salsa dance ARIBA!

Stircrazy yes I probally nuked my rock but not everything died and what did I treat for you ask? I used fwe i think it's pretty self explanatory.

some people may be mistaken that 1 treatment kills all fw's but how about if there's eggs everywhere? the only sure way is to follow up with the treatments.

[Aquattro]

I had these flatworms, FWE does not kill them. I had to individually treat each piece repeatedly with iodine dips to get rid of them. Some pieces were so infested with eggs, I tossed them out. These things are a real pain in the butt.
My new policy is that no SPS goes in my tank without dips and a visual inspection under a dissecting microscope.

[cprowler]

That really sucks Sarah! It really has been one thing after another.

[Chaloupa]

yes, yes it has....makes this hobby a bit too challenging sometimes...BUT I will try to fix this..and carry on. I have had some good information from many people...so here goes nothing...tomorrow I pull them all out, dip them and put them into my Q tank....it's a shallow 40g with 250w halide, with their usual tank water in it...I hope I save them....but will start to frag off healthy bits of ones that are not making it. I've also had some really generous offers if I loose the entire collection...to those I thank you, and I will most likely come knocking!