AEFW experiments and study
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Lazys Coral House
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Your doing a great service to the reefing community. Thank you for your work.
GuyWalker1219
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Good Job Brotha!! I will be following along.
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I'm planning on being in it for the long haul. I'm setting up a system for the acros right now (built one of the 3 stands I need today in fact). It'll have a 55 gallon, 4 20 gallons, and a common 75 gallon sump. The 20 gallons especially will allow me to run experiments separate from the other systems if I need to, such as how long it takes AEFW to reach sexual maturity, and if corals in one of the tanks that is clean becomes infected by simply sharing the same sump as an infected tank. Anyway, what I want to experiment with is listed in this post, other than the top 3 in no particular order of importance:
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If anyone has AEFW or knows someone who does, I would greatly appreciate it if you could send me a few or even just eggs. I would like to gather AEFW from as many sources as possible to compare their reaction to experiments like the starvation one I'm doing now. I've already come across one strain that was ridiculously hardy, but don't currently have any in my system. A few people have mentioned getting some that look different than the regular ones, it would be interesting to see if there may even be more than one species of AEFW plaguing hobbyists.
I know this may sound weird but if I ever get AEFW again I want to try RID lice remover and see how a frag reacts to the medicine. RID says it kills lice eggs so I wonder if it will kill AEFW eggs along with the worm. I know it sounds crazy but hey who thought to dip frags in Bayer
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Not sure I could dip my corals in pyrethrin/permethrin, you're brave
Awesome Thread! Definitely following along
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Day 11, Experiment 1 (Nov 15th)
Compartment 1: No change (16 total egg clusters to date), all remaining 5 AEFW present
Compartment 2: No change (10 total egg clusters to date), all remaining 6 AEFW present
Compartment 3: 1 AEFW dead (10 total egg clusters to date), 9 AEFW remaining
Compartment 4: No change (1 egg cluster to date), 1 remaining AEFW
Compartment 5: All dead
Notes:
As this experiment has progressed, the AEFW have all became white. No more brown mottled color on them like they were when removed from healthy acros. AEFW from the most pale acro frags were pretty white to begin with.
Waterchange performed at 10am and 10pm
Compartment 1: No change (16 total egg clusters to date), all remaining 5 AEFW present
Compartment 2: No change (10 total egg clusters to date), all remaining 6 AEFW present
Compartment 3: 1 AEFW dead (10 total egg clusters to date), 9 AEFW remaining
Compartment 4: No change (1 egg cluster to date), 1 remaining AEFW
Compartment 5: All dead
Notes:
As this experiment has progressed, the AEFW have all became white. No more brown mottled color on them like they were when removed from healthy acros. AEFW from the most pale acro frags were pretty white to begin with.
Waterchange performed at 10am and 10pm
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Day 12, Experiment 1 (Nov 16th)
Compartment 1: 1 AEFW dead (16 total egg clusters to date), 4 AEFW remaining
Compartment 2: 2 AEFW dead (10 total egg clusters to date), 4 AEFW remaining
Compartment 3: 4 AEFW dead in morning, 3 died during the day, 2 AEFW remaining
Compartment 4: 1 AEFW dead, all AEFW dead
Compartment 5: All dead
Notes:
AEFW dying fast. All 1-4mm size (Compartments 4 and 5) are dead. 4-6mm size (compartment 3) dying very fast, 4 dead in the morning, and 3 more during the day. The 6-12mm sizes (compartments 1 and 2) are looking very bad. AEFW all extremely pale and almost motionless, their size half what they were when removed from the acros.
Waterchange performed at 10am and 10pm
Compartment 1: 1 AEFW dead (16 total egg clusters to date), 4 AEFW remaining
Compartment 2: 2 AEFW dead (10 total egg clusters to date), 4 AEFW remaining
Compartment 3: 4 AEFW dead in morning, 3 died during the day, 2 AEFW remaining
Compartment 4: 1 AEFW dead, all AEFW dead
Compartment 5: All dead
Notes:
AEFW dying fast. All 1-4mm size (Compartments 4 and 5) are dead. 4-6mm size (compartment 3) dying very fast, 4 dead in the morning, and 3 more during the day. The 6-12mm sizes (compartments 1 and 2) are looking very bad. AEFW all extremely pale and almost motionless, their size half what they were when removed from the acros.
Waterchange performed at 10am and 10pm
Lacktaters
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Good work. Following along
Keithcorals
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I love a good experiment
Keep up the good work and thanks for sharing your results!!
Keep up the good work and thanks for sharing your results!!
Chameleon
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starvation is not cool. they are eating themselves from the inside out. many organisms when starved will start breaking down their own tissues in order to divert the necessary amino acid building blocks as well as ATP and NADH to essential processes to maintain life. That is why it takes so long to starve organisms to death. these guys must be shrinking and dying as they eat away at their own bodies to stay alive. That explains why the smallest were the first to go. Talk about animal cruelty but I am pretty sure AEFW deserve it
Thanks again for the updates and the experiments
Can't wait to hear the results keep up the good work
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