Aefw?

[OGFrenchHorn]

I've been noticing that my blue acro hasn't been opening up and there were spaghetti worm looking things coming out of the polyps. The Acro then lost its color and browned out, then it started to RTN. I thought this happened because it was a wild caught acro. Then I noticed that the same thing was happening to my cali tort. I lifted the frag to take a closer look and I saw 2 flat leach looking things on the plug and they moved pretty fast. I didnt know what they were at the time but i did kill them outside the tank and dipped the frag in iodone for 15 minutes. I also took out my blue acro and saw another on it's skeleton so I dried it out. this is what I saw

could that be an AEFW?

here is a picture of my cali tort, It's lost its color and they polyps are all beat up but they still try to open up.

what should I do from here? is this guy done for or can it recover?

 

[Clifford]

Get them into revive asap. Dip every acro. There are a couple of ways to deal with this. I have found dipping every sps piece then double dose flatworm exit. Wait a week double dose again and so on for four weeks.

 

[OGFrenchHorn]

cool man, thanks. looks like I'll put everything in QT.

 

[JOSE CASAS]

it doesnt look like it no real bite marks. I would dip and see if the fall off but I think you have them. Looks to me a swing of some sort temp or alk.

 

[Solus]

There's definately some kind of bug on there

 

[OGFrenchHorn]

it doesnt look like it no real bite marks. I would dip and see if the fall off but I think you have them. Looks to me a swing of some sort temp or alk.

My alk is at 7.5 I'm running a reactor and it stays there with no adjustments so far. As for temp., my Apex keeps the tank between 77 and 79

There's definately some kind of bug on there

yeah man, and it's only hitting the acros so far

 

[Solus]

its more than likely and acro eating flatworm

 

[OCReefMadness]

You can dose Prohibit Soluble Drench Powder to remove the flat worm.
http://www.americanlivestock.com/p-789596-prohibit-soluble-drench-powder.aspx

 

[JOSE CASAS]

Can you take pix of the infected corals?

 

[OGFrenchHorn]

its more than likely and acro eating flatworm

Yeah, I think thats what I saw on the plug before I killed them =/

You can dose Prohibit Soluble Drench Powder to remove the flat worm.
http://www.americanlivestock.com/p-789596-prohibit-soluble-drench-powder.aspx

cool thanks, I'll look in to that

Can you take pix of the infected corals?

I'll take more pics today

 

[OGFrenchHorn]

ok here are more pics

polyps are still opening up on these

and polyps that look like nubs still come out of the cali tort

I still see this spaghetti stuff though

 

[JOSE CASAS]

To me its not AEFW but some thing else is stressing the corals. The pix with the two frag corals ( cali tort) both pieces look the same stressed. What is your salinity? Do you check the water temp from your water change water to make sure its the same temp or has the same ph in your tank? I almost sure its not AEFW some thing else is stressing your corals. When do they start to slime like that?

 

[OGFrenchHorn]

Salinity is at 1.026. I don't check the temp on my new water because I only do 5g's at a time but I do mix for 24hrs. They randomly slime like that. Today I saw new growth on the cali tort and I saw a couple real polyps on it. Even the frag i got off the blue acro that RTN'd seems to have nubs popping out where polyps are suppose to be. The icefire isn't sliming today but the hawkins is a little. I dont know what it was but the dips seem to have helped.

 

[BeanMachine]

possibly high phosphate?

 

[OGFrenchHorn]

possibly high phosphate?

phosphates are at .14 i dont think that's too high is it?

 

[JOSE CASAS]

Yea thats high. NSW is .02 IMO anything above .06 is high for sps. What lighting are you using?

 

[OGFrenchHorn]

Yea thats high. NSW is .02 IMO anything above .06 is high for sps. What lighting are you using?

ok, I'll get some GFO. I'm using AI Sol Blues running at 60%

 

[JOSE CASAS]

Bingo I have seen LEDs do ghis to some sps. I think too much light and high po4. I have been seeing this more and more recently.

 

[OGFrenchHorn]

I started running them at 40% and slowly moved them to 50% since this has happened I bumped them up to 60% and these guys seem to be recovering now. Also it was only the cali tort and blue acro that got affected. The hawkins and ice fire were doing ok but I dipped them as a precaution.

I'll scale them back down to 50%

 

[JOSE CASAS]

Yea slower is better and when ever you get piece start them on the bottom hth