aefw

Hi reefers, wondering if anyone can help ID flatworm. Found them when dipping my new acro in quarantine system. I’ve been dipping them weekly for almost 2 months, and there are still some fell off after the dip. I think they’re acoel as their have swallowtail, but would like to confirm it.

Hi guys, I have this SPS frag - acropora granulosa. I dip all my corals in reef primer before putting in my tank. I saw some small white dots moving about on it today, prob more notice than on other frags I have here as it's a lot darker. Polyp extension was okay, not amazing. Once I saw this...

I have noticed my SPS and some Millies struggling over the past few months. I have had red bugs before, and AEFW. But this time as I pick up the corals, dip them I haven't found anything until today. All of this came off just one Acro. I havent seen this type of black bug before and also found...

Hello, I'm (once again) struggling with poor PE and some tissue loss on my Acropora. First of all my tank parameters and my setup: 430L Tank Volume Very recent ICP: https://lab.faunamarin.de/de/share/analysis/115340 KH, CA and Po4 are fairly stable and I measure about the same as the ICP...

Hello, I'm (once again) struggling with poor PE and some tissue loss on my Acropora. First of all my tank parameters and my setup: 430L Tank Volume Very recent ICP: https://lab.faunamarin.de/de/share/analysis/115340 KH, CA and Po4 are fairly stable and I measure about the same as the ICP...

Have been having issues with different SPS losing tissue over the course of several weeks. Pictured (with lights off) forest fire digi, bonsai acro and purple Stylo. These are all very large colonies so dipping the entire colony is not really feasible but I have clipped off pieces and dipped...

Hey, I've noticed some white spots on some of my acropora recently and I've caught some worms out of my tank using a turkey blaster - I'll attach some images. Any opinions would be greatly appreciated

Background: tank has been up going on 2 years. Acro dominant tank and flourishing. I was adding new frags from online vendors mostly. I was using Red Sea dip, revive and bayer on all frags before entering display. Then one day I noticed a newer frag, ASD Mille went from looking super polymer...

Hey guys Me, some coworkers and friends have been working on a solution for our everlasting nemesis Acropora eating flatworm. We started in late December and tested on and off whenever we had time. At the start we tried the typical wormwood recipe that can be found here in the forum but it...

I used to be pretty active on here, years ago. Excited to see if some of the OG's are still around. Firstly, thank you for your help in figuring this out! My Tank is a 29 Gal JBJ Cube with Eshopps Nano Cube Refugium Sump Roughly 33-35 gallons overall. Parameters are pretty stable (I will...

Hello, this is the predicament I am currently in: I contracted Acropora Eating Flatworms in late 2022 and have been dipping three frag racks full of Acro frags and colonies for the past 7 weeks in Potassium Chloride. I dipped in 1 TBS Food Grade KCl per gallon for 10 minutes each rack. The...

About 1 month ago, I noticed that a colony of Ponape Rainbow that I had been nursing back to health due to a shipping issue and a JF Fox Flame, both next to each other on the frag rack, looked to be in poor condition. The Ponape Rainbow had lost a lot of tissue around the base following 3.5 days...

Hello, I was wondering if anyone out there has come across this mast big that I have found terrorising my frag tank. some people say black bug and some are say aefw.

I'm finally getting around to introducing myself. I have had a reef tank in my garage since we moved back to southern California in 2007. I've had tanks much of my life but I've never wanted to automate them as I prefer to tinker. I'm thinking about changing and getting a reef controller or just...

Losing sleep sucks, especially if your tank causes it. You look into your reef tank, your worse fear is....? For me, it’s when I am 2 weeks without seeing a montipora eating nudibranch just eating away in my QT. ::gets out dip bucket and picks clean 10 frags::

Hi all, not new here, but first thread start. I just noticed yesterday something I've dealt with before and so here is what I saw leading up to finding acro eating flatworms, how I identified the issue, and how I have intially dealt with it. The last few weeks I've noticed some of my acros...

I just picked up this frag and I was inspecting it before dipping and noticed what appear to me as aefw. I would love other's opinions on this

Please help this pc rainbow does not look good but is growing a lot is this aefw

Hey you guys I made the awful discovery of Monti Eating Nudibranchs in my 55g tank. I plan on breaking off the dead portions, pulling out what I can to dip and scrub and add something to eat them. What fish can I get to help control/eradicate these little monsters? I've been told melanarus...

Hi, Looking for the size of newly hatched AEFW but can't find it. Anyone? Feel free to post links to good articles or threads. Want to find out if it's possible to filter water from AEFW(want to use the water from a AEFW-tank to a non-AEFW tank). Thanks in advance! / David

So this coral seems to be one of the three or four favorites that my humungous moorish idol is constantly biting throughout the day.... but i pulled it and dipped it due to so many weird death paterns. Part of it is for sure due to being completely shaded by itself i believe but other parts...

Short version: I released at least 1 large AEFW into my tank, what can I do to prevent an infestation? Also, as hobbyist is there any kind of moral code in pest disclosure when selling livestock? Long version: So yesterday I purchased 4 acro frags from a local reefer and failed to do my...

Red Bugs and AEFW. Read more here... http://aquanerd.com/2017/01/dont-be-a-dip-dip-your-corals-with-the-dip.html

You spend your time reading on the horribleness of aefw and never expect to get hit, lucky me found a fw on my acro and decided to dip the specific coral in some coralrx (only thing at hand) and found 2 fw's came off, after inspection found a few egg patches under the plug. After someones...