It CAN Happen to you

Fox · #1 05-15-2009, 04:11 PM

Speaking for all the newbies that might be reading this, what is AEFW?

Ephraim · #2 05-15-2009, 04:23 PM

AEFW = the enbodiment of all that is evil in reefkeeping, Acropora Eating Flat Worms

Zoaelite · #3 05-15-2009, 04:26 PM

That really sucks Mark, good luck with them as you said they are hell. Any ideas on how you are going to combat them, chemically or naturally?
Levi

GreenSpottedPuffer · #4 05-15-2009, 04:28 PM

I have found them two of the past three times I have bought and dipped corals from LFS.

xtreme · #5 05-15-2009, 04:30 PM

Seems to be a lot of these going around lately. I'm on the look out thats for sure.

Drock169 · #6 05-15-2009, 04:41 PM

best thing to do is just toss those infected colonies, usually they are very localized.

GreenSpottedPuffer · #7 05-15-2009, 05:06 PM

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Originally Posted by Drock169

best thing to do is just toss those infected colonies, usually they are very localized.

This is what I did with the last one. Hard to toss away $60 but didnt want to risk my tank full of acros and I have no QT.

Ephraim · #8 05-15-2009, 04:46 PM

I've got some reading to do to come up with a treatment plan. I am hoping i can avoid the "move all my acros route and separate qt them for more than a month". As it stands they seem to only be located in a very small area of the tank. And initially i am going to work on the hope/assumption that they have no spread to far. I am going to grab some betadine on the way home from the airport sunday night and start dipping all colonies and frags immediately to drop down the numbers.

Has anyone found any predators for these yet? Green madarin? some kinda wrasse?

GreenSpottedPuffer · #9 05-15-2009, 05:08 PM

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Originally Posted by Ephraim

I've got some reading to do to come up with a treatment plan. I am hoping i can avoid the "move all my acros route and separate qt them for more than a month". As it stands they seem to only be located in a very small area of the tank. And initially i am going to work on the hope/assumption that they have no spread to far. I am going to grab some betadine on the way home from the airport sunday night and start dipping all colonies and frags immediately to drop down the numbers.

Has anyone found any predators for these yet? Green madarin? some kinda wrasse?

Apparently 6 line wrasse will eat them...sometimes.

There was a guy on the ZEO forum who added 6 six lines and they put a dent in the numbers but never got rid of all of them and he still had to QT I think. From all the reading I have done on RC, they spread and you might need to take all acros out

paddyob · #10 05-15-2009, 07:41 PM

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Originally Posted by zoaElite

That really sucks Mark, good luck with them as you said they are hell. Any ideas on how you are going to combat them, chemically or naturally?
Levi

I had flat worms cover my tank. I added a spotted mandarin (as it is natural food) and it literally wiped them out. The terminator. Possible this is a safe route to try. Beats chemical warfare!!!

Patrick