AEFW I blew it

[Holy_makerel]

I love acros. I love the challenge and the satisfaction of watching them grow successfully. I've been keeping some on a frag rack in my 60 until my new build is ready for them.

I got several from a friend who had been battling AEFW for a while. When I received them I removed each one from it's plug, reglued and sealed all the lower edges in with super glue. I then dipped in an iodine solution followed by bayer.

I got caught up in remodeling my house as well as building out my new system. During that time my tank wasn't getting much attention. I was doing all my regular maintenance and testing fairly regularly but just not observing very closely. About 2 weeks ago I noticed some of my acros losing coloration. I tested and found all my parameters to be right where they were supposed to be but I performed a large WC just to be on the safe side. It never occurred to me to even look for AEFW signs. So another week goes by and I start to notice some tissue recession. At that point I decided to take a closer look and to my dismay I found bite marks. Obviously I had a predator and I knew exactly what it was.

While I haven't lost any pieces I'm kicking myself for not being more proactive and going through multiple dipping regimens to ensure I had eradicated any AEFW or eggs that possibly had made it in with those corals.

Thankfully all of them are on plugs on a rack so treating will be fairly straight forward over the next month or so but I'm so ticked off at myself that I didn't anticipate this and treat when I knew I should have.

At least they didn't make it into my new tank before I caught it.

You can clearly see the bite marks on this frag and the second pic is some of the worms that came off in the bayer

Stay vigilant folks

 

[kireek]

Thank you for the friendly reminder.It is true that one bad apple (or in this case a tiny worm) can spoil the whole barrel. You are fortunate to have caught on when you did.

 

[gipa21982]

Yany

 

[sfin52]

crap happens dont beat your self up. Fix move on and remember.

 

[Katrina71]

Eh. It happens. Don't be so hard on yourself.

 

[Graffiti Spot]

Actually a good story in a way, the guy told you he had the worms (rarely happens, should happen like that more), you didn’t get them in the new system and you dipped which is good. It stinks they got through, it definitely looks like a worm that came off. Happens to the best of us and good luck with the treatment.

 

[Holy_makerel]

Thanks folks. I consider myself pretty lucky that I caught it and it's fairly easily fixed

 

[jda]

Don't sweat it too much... they can be treated now and are not the scourge that they once were.

I would treat the whole tank. Double dose of KZ Flatworm stop for 3-4 months will slowly break the life cycle and make sure that you get all of them. Dipping can acutely treat them, but you never know if you got them all. The KZ is no big deal if you don't have a huge tank, but it is kinda expensive.