What's up with this?
Mon, 02/01/2010 - 18:48
So i was looking at one of my millis and noticed it had some pale spots on it, so i took the camera and snapped some shots of random corals through the tank and I found another one that looks much worse.. Anyhow can anyone tell me if this is normal or if somethings going on that i havent experienced before.
Milli
Acro
Close up of Acro
Thanks for any help
Jeff
Tue, 02/02/2010 - 17:43
#2
here are some good links on
here are some good links on SPS pests.
http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=903839&high...
http://reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1730682
hope this helps.
Tue, 02/02/2010 - 20:19
#3
Trading
Been doing any trading lately? I did some local trading with a few different hobbyist a year or so ago. Well even after a dip, some AEFW's got through. Wiped out about $1500.00 worth of frags and a few colonies, before I could finally just start throwing stuff away.. Systems are freakin absolutely clean now, as I am sure you can tell. I am also OCD like a mofo about them. I don't take any acro, unless I look at it with a magnifying glass and give it A TEA COLORED DIP. and then still QT it for a while.
It does look like AEFW's. Damn man, if it is, your in deep doodoo. Bring the colony in tomorrow and I can tell you right away.
Wed, 02/03/2010 - 18:38
#4
lets us know when you find
lets us know when you find out! Hope you don't have them!!!
Fri, 02/05/2010 - 20:35
#5
Sorry havent replied in a few
Sorry havent replied in a few days, but yeah they are AEFW. Spent a whole day setting up my QT and dip tanks, then went through my DT and pulled every acro out i had (which was alot since thats my primary choice of coral) then i soaked them and blew the aefw off with a powerhead and shook the daylights out of them to get all i could off. After that i went with the magnifing glass and looked for any hangers and got them off and scrapped all the eggs off i could find. Once done with that a quick few dips in fresh salt water and off into my QT.
So my plan now is to do a weekly dip for a month and continue monitoring them in the QT for 2-3 months, hopefully this will give any left over in the DT time to die off.
On your comment Jeff, yeah i had just done some trading a few weeks ago, think this is how i got them. I know better than not to QT but silly me i just rolled with it when i got them home. Never fails, I've had red bugs twice, and now these lil turds, you would think i would have learned my lesson by now 
Just goes to show ya you cant trust what you get even if its local. But as i stated, its my bust for not QT'n.
On the plus side of all my acros, i think i might just end up losing 2, they are small frags that i havent had for long, all the ones i've had for a couple of years now seemed to do well with the dip and scrubbing so I'm keeping my fingers crossed 
On a side note, my QT is a 30gal breeder, right now i got my outer orbit fixture on it running the 4 T5s, will this be enuf light for the duration of my QT? It has 2 250w MH in the fixture too, but I am a bit nervous of using them, afraid i'll end up cooking them if i use it.. Any suggestions?
Thanks,
Jeff
Possibly AEFW (acro eating flat worms) just a suggestion, i would google it.
*My Tanks
My father and I have a 1,000gal. system, that includes: 375, 175 ,125, 75, 3-33, and 30 gallon aquariums. With a 125 and 55gal. sump, which are two separte tanks that are joined together. We also have a 150gal. tank as its own aquarium.