- Location
- Deer Park,Long Island,11729
I put two in my tank they left my infected acro colonies and one is now in my pocillopora and the other went to my stylo lol:irked:
O well they are kind of cool
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Flat worms
- Thread starter TUSI
- Start date
I put two in my tank they left my infected acro colonies and one is now in my pocillopora and the other went to my stylo lol:irked:
O well they are kind of cool
- Location
- FREEPORT,LONG ISLAND
I lost to mush $$ on trying to keep SPS with AEFW
I would QT all of them or just start over
I feel your pain if that table in your avaitor picture has them.....
I dont wish these worms on my worse enemy
I would QT all of them or just start over
I feel your pain if that table in your avaitor picture has them.....
I dont wish these worms on my worse enemy
- Location
- Queens, NY
Wow, I had no idea you guys were affected by these little buggers so much.
The problem is half of the people here have them
I bought my frags from a well know member here and he didn't say anything about them and he just wanted to make the quick buck
It's is really sad
But after 20 years of doing this I have learned a lesson
Trust no one
- Location
- Deer Park,Long Island,11729
Ya not to manny reefers man up and admit it:smash:
Mad respect to the ones that do
Bayer works but don't kill the eggs
Ya not to manny reefers man up and admit it:smash:
Mad respect to the ones that do
I seen 5 in the last couple months
Very rare around here
- Location
- Queens, NY
Well, as a pest, they are bound to be everywhere. Every piece of liverock out there might have one. The question is how to control them. If they are as bad as we think, the ocean would be filled with them like caulerpa taxifolia taking over the Mediterranean.
I really can't say who's preying upon them in my system, but by process of elimination, must either be damsels, 6-line wrasse or the molly miller blennies. Which seem to non-selectively graze on everything. This article shows they also clear out aiptasia http://www.advancedaquarist.com/2012/9/fish
OH, I do remember sail fin mollies poking at them when I had them way back when, in my refugium (I was using them to breed and feed my bangaii cardinals at the time)
One major side effect, was that they completely grazed everything off the glass. cyano, diatoms, hair algae and I do believe flat worms. Problem was they ate soo much, constantly hungry.
I really can't say who's preying upon them in my system, but by process of elimination, must either be damsels, 6-line wrasse or the molly miller blennies. Which seem to non-selectively graze on everything. This article shows they also clear out aiptasia http://www.advancedaquarist.com/2012/9/fish
OH, I do remember sail fin mollies poking at them when I had them way back when, in my refugium (I was using them to breed and feed my bangaii cardinals at the time)
One major side effect, was that they completely grazed everything off the glass. cyano, diatoms, hair algae and I do believe flat worms. Problem was they ate soo much, constantly hungry.
- Location
- GARDEN CITY
Thank you for your thoughts and interest of helping me out. Spoke to few people that have been studying these little monsters and both said the same thing. There is a very bad strain of flatworms coming from Bali acros it seems the only thing that kills them is a product called revival from two little fishes. The other thing they said is to dip each coral for 4 weeks after that hope that there are no eggs attached somewhere that cannot be seen to be scraped. I am trying very thing so ill definitely let you know how I do. I do think that I possibly caught early so hopefully won't loose to much and as jarett shark said if it gets on the table I have on my avatar I don't know what I will do. The only good thing is that flat worms dontn like all acros the same. From what I can see they like certain corals like Millie's spatlata red planet green planet echinatas.
- Location
- Franklin Square, NY
well that makes sense because those are the only new acros that I have added in the last few months..even though I dipped them there were probably eggs somewhere that I didn't see. My large green table has a crab and is one of the few corals that didn't show any signs of worms...
- Location
- Medford, NY
Too bad you cant buy acro crabs seperately. They'll take to any acro you drop them in, if theyre original home dies.
- Location
- Dingmans ferry PA
You can, live aquaria sells them
- Location
- Medford, NY
Oh no kidding huh well that might be a good route. Lots of acro crabs!
- Location
- Medford, NY
No idea lol. But the acro crabs do protect theyre corals so i cant see why they wouldnt. Lemme do some research.
It's not proven that they do
Your is no easy answer to remove them
Dip once a week
Throw them out
Or live with them
well i dont have aefw. i apologize if im hijacking the thread. Im just thinking preventative.
Qt corals for weeks is the only prevention
If your into sps corals your going to get them
Unless you have a qt system running
- Location
- Deer Park,Long Island,11729
I would also recomend cutting frags off there plugs and if you happen to get that mariculture S#it with the rock plug cut that off also.
You just can't see eggs on that rock.
Dip,inspect,dip some more
You just can't see eggs on that rock.
Dip,inspect,dip some more
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