AEFW and red bugs

Yerboy · Sep 25, 2011

For your enjoyment i expose my tank to you. lol here is my AEFW and Red bug pictures.
Hopefully this will help people diagnose there own problems so as to not spread these vial creatures to others tanks. cough cough**.

In this photo you can clearly see the small round bit marks on the acro, i have also highlighted the smal batch of AEFW eggs i see in the photo. hopefully the next time i pull these piece out i will snap some close ups of the AEFW themselves, and their eggs. Also you can see a few red bugs that survived my interceptor treatment.

also in this photo you can better see some red bugs munching on my acros.

Yerboy · Sep 25, 2011

friends don't give friends AEFW!!!
Inspect your corals, dip them, put them in the microwave whatever you have to do to ensure you don't propagate these little *******s in your system.

H@rry · Sep 26, 2011

Tell me 'bout the microwave. How'd that go for you? :after_boom:

Yerboy · Sep 26, 2011

smelled the house up something nasty!

Reef UP · Sep 26, 2011

More detail about microwave what was the purpose

jason.tammy · Sep 27, 2011

nice close up pics.You must have a cool camera like H@rry does.I never have been able to get good close up pics.

Yerboy · Sep 27, 2011

the microwave reference was a joke.

H@rry · Sep 27, 2011

Yerboy said:
the microwave reference was a joke.

I figured it was but you got me thinking. I wonder if something like 5 seconds would kill the eggs without killing the frag?

Dave3112 · Sep 28, 2011

H@rry said:
I figured it was but you got me thinking. I wonder if something like 5 seconds would kill the eggs without killing the frag?

HAHA! Only one way to find out! Do it in the name of science! :bad_smelly:

SaltWaterDave · Sep 28, 2011

Thanks for the great pics! I've dealt with both, but would much rather tackle the Red Bugs than AEFW. It's a breeze to get rid of the Red Bugs. Those AEFW are a pain in the butt to get get the upper hand on.

Yerboy · Oct 10, 2011

Mike over at homegrown hooked my up with a couple acro crabs that i placed in that above colony. I will give them a few more weeks then i will pull the colony and inspect for marks. I hope that the crabs will have finished off the flatworms once and for all. Back when the AEFW outbreak first started this was the only colony not effected and it had 2 large acro crabs living in it. I dosed interceptor to fight a red bug infestation and it killed the acro crabs and then became infested with the AEFW.