What pest is this on my sps
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They are slug like not aefw like they are whipping out my sps
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hmm cuz ive seen flat worms and they are usually flat and paper like these are kind of grey/black slugs. i put an acro in a glass with interceptor & nothing really has happened they just kind of fell off the acro and have been moving around in the glass for about 6hrs now. then i dipped with bayer and they all died of coarse!! What do i do??
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HELP!!!! ARE THEY AEFW??
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Oh man 
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Yes they're AEFW, oh boy this is why you dip :/ Sorry for you hope you get through this with minimal damage to your SPS
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I'm sorry I'm not an expert on AEFW, maybe someone else can help
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Give up on the encrusted fact holding you back - because if they are(look like it to me) and you leave them you will than have a dead encrusted sps only.
Break off what you can - dip in bayer as you are and keep them on a rack to watch and dip regularly thru the week over x amount of time. Start researching into them so you can identify the eggs for manual removal as they sit on the rack.
It's not an easy one to deal with but ive seen folks win the battle. Sounds like your in a good starting place to win if you try - with it not being an sps dominant tank and only a handful or 2 of pieces to take care of
Break off what you can - dip in bayer as you are and keep them on a rack to watch and dip regularly thru the week over x amount of time. Start researching into them so you can identify the eggs for manual removal as they sit on the rack.
It's not an easy one to deal with but ive seen folks win the battle. Sounds like your in a good starting place to win if you try - with it not being an sps dominant tank and only a handful or 2 of pieces to take care of
Sadly as far as I know nothing will kill the eggs. Unless you can get your acros into QT and try to manage the infestation there, you will most likely have total loss of them. Man sorry to see this
Man sorry to see this
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Sadly as far as I know nothing will kill the eggs. Unless you can get your acros into QT and try to manage the infestation there, you will most likely have total loss of them.
RPS All Out claims this but dont be fooled -
Also heard peeps using flatworm stop(not exit)
There are also a couple odd ball directions folks go you will see when u start researching - be weary of and make sure to read up before in the latter case as ive seen a few crashs' in end result.
Research their incubation cycle lengths and life cycles and it will give you an idea on when for dipping routine
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ok thanks for the info im going to set up a qt and keep it up indefinitely from now on and remove the acros from my dt and bayer dip them ... GGGrrrreat here we go
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