AEFW Confirmed! Help Reefsquad!!

[ronnie]

Bayer will take care of all pests. Profilactic dipping without a QT process is mostly pointless though. You need to dedicate a system to QT and QT only and follow a regimen religiously.

My Bayer plan is this:
10ml Bayer per cup of tank water
Dip for 10 minutes
Do a double rinse in clean tank water
Repeat for a minimum of 60 days, dipping every six days

I've battled aefw three times. The third time I took the QT to heart and followed it. I still follow it. It's a permanent tank that runs mostly fallow with one fish in it right now (he's in jail for nipping).

 

[blackgate]

Ronnie, to be honest I was thinking about pulling the sps out and treating them for eight weeks but putting them back in the main display each time. I am very worried about matching parameters in another separate tank. Also, aside from acros, what else needs to be treated? I have a scroll coral, several monti caps, digitatas, a setosa, and birdsnest colonies.

 

[ronnie]

I did my last treatment in the DT - so it works, but you cannot add anything after you get them through the treatment (or during the treatment unless you reset and start all over).

My opinion, acros are only affected, but I've seen other folks recommend dipping other types of SPS as well. I didn't dip any caps or birdsnest in my tank and I'm fine.

 

[blackgate]

Ok I really feel like that would be the least stressful alternative. This whole thing is just such a bummer

 

[TUSI]

I would keep an eye on the corals surrounding the coral colony you threw away and see if you see any signs.

 

[ifarmer]

Okay I can confirm eggs underneath one of my humilis colonies and in a tank full of thriving sps, I can see this is going to be an extremely difficult journey. I just went and bought Bayer Complete Insect killer what are my next steps? Also, for future reference, will Bayer kill redbugs when I purchase new corals and QT?

you would need to have a plan. it will be a long process to get rid of them.
You can setup a quarantine tank or make room in your tank to temporary hold the corals. Cut out all corals from the rocks. scrape off any encrusted part on the rocks completely.. take all the corals out each week and dip with bayer once a week for 8-10 weeks.
Dipping is easy, getting rid of the bayer after the dipping is very hard. Unless you quaratine the corals (after each dipping) in a separate tank otherwise if you put them back into your display tank, chances are the bayer residual will kill your shrimps and pods.
Just so you know, Bayer dont kill acro eating flatworm. it makes the worm to fall off the coral but it does not kill the aefw that I know off. Bayer can kill red bugs.
I just went thru this the last two months and I just finish my 9 weeks dipping .

 

[ronnie]

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Just so you know, Bayer dont kill acro eating flatworm. it makes the worm to fall off the coral but it does not kill the aefw that I know off.

I can assure you Bayer absolutely does kill them.

 

[Diesel]

Plumb a 40G breeder on your setup temporally, feed it water by gravity only as the release to the sump.
Only SPS need to be removed from the DT include Birdnest.

 

[blackgate]

Ok, like I mentioned earlier, I only have one other colony (that is freaking huge by the way) that is really not looking as good as it should right now. Everything else looks great so I am going to have to wait until Sat to start dipping as I get home from work pretty late in the evenings. Are you guys telling me that if I dip these corals only on Saturdays, I would be waiting too long between dips? Also, thank you guys very much for the advice in this matter and I appreciate the video link as well. I was wondering if anyone else does their rinsing with RO water like they do in the video because IME any freshwater dips with sps (even momentarily) have been darn near disastrous.

 

[blackgate]

Oh and I was going to post some photos, but by the time I get home from work every day the t5's are off and its only blue leds. My galaxy note really takes bad pics with only the blues on so I will get some this weekend with the t5's on and show you what I am facing.

 

[Diesel]

Every 7 days is stretching IMO but if there's no other way that would be your best option.
The whole idea behind the back to back dipping is that you get the AEFW before they lay eggs again and when there eggs on the coral and hatch the next day after dipping they can start laying eggs as soon as 5 days.
If you do a 7 day dip you really want all your corals out te DT in a frag tank or so.
I wouldn't use RODI water to rinse, every time you dip do a small WC and use that water to mix your Bayer and rinsing water.