AEFW experiments and study

[Yourwrasseismine]

Ugh! God speed sir! I delt with these guys last year, got rid of every sps in my packed 120 gallon tank full of years worth of growth....left the tank fallow for 8 months and am just now recovering

 

[tektite]

Interesting update: Preliminary study indicates that AEFW juveniles die within 24 hours of hatching with no access to food.

 

[Chris155hp]

Interesting update: Preliminary study indicates that AEFW juveniles die within 24 hours of hatching with no access to food.

Awesome this is good news

 

[Msmith2813]

I just came across this thread. Thank you for what you are doing. I have definitely had my battle with these things. If you are still needing anything let me know, as I am willing to help. Any more updates?

 

[ronnie]

Any updates tektite?

 

[hatfielj]

Great work! Thank you for doing all of this. Question for you...(and I apologize if its been answered already), but are we certain that acropora tissue is the only food source for these organisms? For instance, under desperate situations are they able to feed on say coraline algae or tissues from other types of corals? If so, then eliminating all acros from our tanks may not be a 100% sure fire way to get rid of them.

 

[ronnie]

100% acro dependent

 

[ronnie]

Bump?

 

[tektite]

Nothing exciting to report, mostly just background work on the aefw system. Keeping a healthy balance of predator and very sensitive prey is quite difficult longterm...Hopeful that Aug will be the beginning of the next round of in-depth experiments.

 

[choff]

Following along. Thank you.

 

[FF337]

What's the good word.

 

[Cresta]

bump

 

[Diesel]

As far as I know she took a 5 gallon bucket of SPS from me to continue the research.
I had AEFW in one of my SPS frag tanks and didn't bother to start a treatment.
Most were all colonies SSC, Large Pink Lemonade, some super rare wild colonies with awesome color.
All what I did was took some small frags 0.5" of each.

 

[Montireef]

This is probably the most valuable post in this forum ever.
Great job mates!

Any news?
Did you find out how long does it take for the eggs to hatch?

 

[Montireef]

I have found out that Microbe Lift Herbtana kills flatworms at a dosage of 2 ml per 10 gallons of water with no harm to fishes nor invertebrates. Anybody can confirm with aefw? It works with red flatworms killing them in 4/5 days, I'm going to check with aefw

 

[Diesel]

I have found out that Microbe Lift Herbtana kills flatworms at a dosage of 2 ml per 10 gallons of water with no harm to fishes nor invertebrates. Anybody can confirm with aefw? It works with red flatworms killing them in 4/5 days, I'm going to check with aefw

That's interesting!
I think @tektite you need a take on this.

Microbe-Lift Herbtana Disease Expellant (Reef) External Parasite Aquarium Medications

Microbe-Lift Herbtana - 4 oz. | Premium Aquatics

Btw, with mass of die-off how do you control the rapid raise in Po4? WC will be not enough IMO.

 

[ColaAddict]

How does Herbtana work? It claims to improve immune system of fish, not kill pests.

 

[Montireef]

I don't know but it smells very similar to Coral RX and Coral Protect. It's got some kind of pine scent.

 

[bknapp]

Any new findings?

Thanks.

 

[Moonlightreef]

amazing work my friend , will follow every update since im dealing with AEFW