What pest is this on my sps

[Oscaror]

Will it kill acropora crabs? And will it do it instantly? Beause I like thos elittle guys and I'd like to grab them out of the dip when they fall off before they die

 

[afamousjohnson]

hard to say with the rps - it is super strong but its main ingredient for effectiveness from what ive read is that of whats in the bayer dip.
With the rps you have to do a super after rinsing before going back into display or it will even kill all your shrimp. Soaked a rock after dipping for 15min and thought I was good. Nope - wiped out my cleaner shrimp.

 

[Jp978]

I use Bayer complete insect killer from Home Depot to dip all corals works great one bottle will last about a year.

 

[AQUAMAN22]

Oah RPS is a dip solution lol ok duh never dealt with this before thanks shep.. Man what a P.I.T.A.

 

[Reef Pets]

I see the flat worms but what is the picture of? Is that a dip bowl and you got that many flatworms from a dip? If it's not a bowl is that taken inside your aquarium? I ask because from my understanding the flatworms only live on acros and if that's your glass then good chance it's not aefw.
It certainly looks like them and if you only have 4-5 acros and they are extremely damaged and little chance of saving them then it might be best to get rid of the acros and the aefw will die off.

 

[AQUAMAN22]

I see the flat worms but what is the picture of? Is that a dip bowl and you got that many flatworms from a dip? If it's not a bowl is that taken inside your aquarium? I ask because from my understanding the flatworms only live on acros and if that's your glass then good chance it's not aefw.
It certainly looks like them and if you only have 4-5 acros and they are extremely damaged and little chance of saving them then it might be best to get rid of the acros and the aefw will die off.

The first pics I posted are the bottom of a glass dish that I dip in & let me tell you the bottom was covered in those little black/grey slug things. I am assuming those are juvenile flat worms . Not sure how fast juvenile flat worms move but I could see them scooting around the glass dish consistently. I dipped all my acros today and I only saw 2 that looked like this pic so tell me what you think is it bad???

 

[AQUAMAN22]

Look who decided to join the party!!!!! Geezzeee you don't dip 1 time on a DFS & this is what I get. Not bashing them my problem completly PLEASE help ID this critter I'm bout to flush him but want to make sure 1st grrrrr reefing Gota love it

 

[afamousjohnson]

Thats a cool one - how big is it? They can tend to take on the color of what they are eating sometimes. Looks like some sort of nudibranch

 

[beadlocked450r]

Rps?Does this work for aefw? Eggs also? Better then bayer?

 

[afamousjohnson]

Rps?Does this work for aefw? Eggs also? Better then bayer?

In my opinion - no. But we did use it to dip an aefw infected coral specimen and watched an adult flatworm turn to mush and pretty much desinagrate. Than lost 2 cleaner shrimp after putting the dipped coral back into QT. Did not kill eggs from what we saw as they came back.
From what ive read the main active ingredient in both that does the main dirty work while dipping is the same between the 2.

Seems the only way is QT(wether a tank or just a rack with on going dipping and inspection to break their cycle and keep them gone

Have also seen a monti eating nudi make it thru the rps dip also - so who knows with that stuff - anything can make it thru anytime so always have at least a rack for new corals to go onto for the 1st few weeks in the system before placing - so it can be watched and made sure it is good to go - better yet would be a qt system

 

[evolved]

A dip which kills the eggs does not exist.