AEFW

[Aquattro]

See? This is how that happens. You "forget" just once to practice safe fragging, and your whole tank can go to crap, thousands of dollars worth of corals need to get tossed and essentially, you have to start over from scratch.
I've got lots of frags from Wayne, check every one under a microscope and never found anything. I know his tank is fine, and so, the last frag he gave me, when I was busy, did not get checked. Until last night. Oh, look, flatworms on the frag. #$%%
It has been in my system a few days. It got tossed last night. I checked all the other frags and nothing. But the chances that one let loose and went for a swim in the tank are pretty good. Nothing I can do about it now, but that 2 minutes of being lazy, just once, may have just cost me my coral collection.

People, DO NOT add frags to your tank without dipping. You WILL get something bad, and in the case of AEFW, not treatable in tank.

[Rice Reef]

Originally Posted by Aquattro

See? This is how that happens. You "forget" just once to practice safe fragging, and your whole tank can go to crap, thousands of dollars worth of corals need to get tossed and essentially, you have to start over from scratch.
I've got lots of frags from Wayne, check every one under a microscope and never found anything. I know his tank is fine, and so, the last frag he gave me, when I was busy, did not get checked. Until last night. Oh, look, flatworms on the frag. #$%%
It has been in my system a few days. It got tossed last night. I checked all the other frags and nothing. But the chances that one let loose and went for a swim in the tank are pretty good. Nothing I can do about it now, but that 2 minutes of being lazy, just once, may have just cost me my coral collection.

People, DO NOT add frags to your tank without dipping. You WILL get something bad, and in the case of AEFW, not treatable in tank.

Brad, I hope your tank is gonna be ok. This whole thing has me very concerned. I do not want to share this with anyone. As you said all it takes is one... I wish I had set up the other tank already. The irony of it all is that the second tank is to be my insurance policy...

[Reefer Rob]

I've been through this, it isn't fun, but you can win. I found Revive to be stressfully on the corals for repeated dipping. Have a read here, it works well, and the corals don't even react to the dip if done correctly. Unfortunately it's only available in The States. Perhaps you could test some infested frags with an insecticide that is available in Canada. B-Cyfluthrin is the ingredient that kills the flatworms.

[Aquattro]

Rob, if I end up having them in the tank, I cannot remove any of the colonies. They're well attached to the rock I've got frags before and tried to turkey baste the flatworms off with little success, so I'm hoping that the few that came on this frag were equally well attached. It's possible that one let go and is in the tank somewhere, but I'm hoping I don't get them breeding in there over this.
The kicker is I know so much better than to add a frag to the tank without checking and dipping. Just dumb..

[Myka]

Dips don't kill the eggs. Every piece should be very closely inspected for eggs, and the eggs need to be scraped off. All new corals should be quarantined, but any corals found with eggs need be quarantined and dipped several times over a few weeks at least. AEFW is a reef's worst nightmare - they are terrible critters and take so much time and effort to eliminate. A worm-aggressive Wrasse is a good idea especially Halichoeres spp. although they will usually eat ornamental shrimps and crabs as well. So there are drawbacks to that option.

[Aquattro]

Originally Posted by Myka

Dips don't kill the eggs. Every piece should be very closely inspected for eggs, and the eggs need to be scraped off.

Egg masses are easy to see and are laid around the dead base area. I always get fresh cut frags or cut the frags off of any base to avoid things that hide down there. I also check (almost) every frag under a microscope for pests.

It's the "almost" factor above that will kill you -lol

[pinkreef]

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GOOD LUCK I HOPE ALL GOES WELL