What does AEFW damage look like?

[Reef Pilot]

If you go fallow with acros, do the AEFW's die off in the tank? I know this may not be practical for most, and there are always acro bits that break off, and end up hidden in the rocks at the back of the tank somewhere. But just curious.

[asylumdown]

Originally Posted by Reef Pilot

If you go fallow with acros, do the AEFW's die off in the tank? I know this may not be practical for most, and there are always acro bits that break off, and end up hidden in the rocks at the back of the tank somewhere. But just curious.

They're obligate acro predators, so yes, they'd starve with no food. It looks like their egg's take around 21 days to hatch, and then who knows how long for them to starve to death.

[asylumdown]

I'm starting to see AEFW damage everywhere, but I think it might just be my imagination. I'm getting really paranoid because I just realized that one of my larger, healthier acro colonies that was growing all gangbuster style before I left for mexico is completely, 100% dead. I didn't notice until this morning because it's in a depression of one of my rocks, and a birdsnest colony has grown large enough to make it hard to see.

I don't think that flatworms can take down and entire colony that fast, but I have three different colonies of that same species/colour morph (proof you need to vary the stores you buy coral from) and it's the only that's dead. The only other thing that I can think might have killed it was a temperature spike, my Apex tells me that my tank hit 27.6 degrees the day before I came home from Mexico - it must have been really sunny and warm outside for the house to have gotten so warm inside. Sometimes I regret the choice to put in floor to ceiling windows along the south wall of our house...