Please Read if you love your tank

[tosiek]

Zoe make a in tank treatment for AEFW . I been see alot of people tryed it with great result.

This is a first that I heard about an in tank AEFW treatment that actually worked. I have been out of the game for a while though

Duke, a 10g setup for 90% of new york city reefers is hard to fit. Im not talking about the people with more real estate on the island, upstate, or jersey. And a QT tank will run you about 150$ for the setup + electric to run it for the few months in the year. Not saying its a price thing but it adds up when you have people saving for months for one SPS frag. I'm just explaining how possible this might or might not be with a general statement about QT tanks to everyone. They are great and if possible everyone should run one but there are ways of preventing death and destruction in your tank without the need for extra equipment, special gadgets, magic potions, ect. Also, with a QT tank, you still have to do whatever your doing in your infected display to take care of the problems, just on a smaller manageable scale. If you have a 180g tank, you might want to def get a QT and fit one in. If you only have a 5g pico, chances are its better to deal with the problem in tank than setting up another tank 2x the volume.

Real simple steps everyone should be doing regardless if you QT or not:

1. Trust your coral sources. If you sleep around you will understand (no i don't sleep around but the metaphor is great)
2. ALWAYS dip your coral with appropriate dips for SPS and LPS.
3. Check your coral before and after you dip. AEFW bites are easy to spot, redbugs as visible as well.

If you spot either or both realize that:

1. There are specialty dips for both to kill them during the dipping stage.
2. A simple fix for AEFW eggs is removing the base of the coral which will 99.9% of the time have the eggs, or some dead exposed skeleton which are two things you should remove if you do see bites, dead FW's during dipping, ect. Last I remember they don't lay eggs on heathy SPS skin, and any eggs on the undersides of coral can be easily spotted.
3. If all else fails its not the end of the world and there are manual ways of controlling redbugs and AEFW that make them non existant, and you can add the 5 min routine to your daily veg out infront of your tank looking at the purdy fish.

 

[cybermeez]

As a Manhattanite, a Q-tank set up has proven to be a challenge. I tried the small tank with just a heater and temporary light. The result was that I bested my all time record of how quickly I could kill a coral.

It's very difficult to keep the tank cool enough and keep good water quality. I have yet to successfully QT an acro to this day and tend not to keep many of them because of this. Zoas are easier, but they have their own set of issues.

Since retro fitting it with LEDs, my 14g bio cube serves as my QT for zoas. Initially set it up primarily for some little gobies and an elongated dottyback. I dip the zoas in coral rx and then let them hang out in the nano for a several weeks.