Aefw ?

jerl77 · Apr 2, 2011

Will they die when all the acros are gone ?
What is the natural predator for them?
They only eat acros will they eat milliapora ?

Troylee · Apr 2, 2011

Yeah if they got not food they should vanish with in 8 weeks or so.... I would say any stick is considered a food source besides maybe birdsnest and digitata...

jerl77 · Apr 2, 2011

Millapora is a food for them?
Any natural predators?

soccerbag · Apr 2, 2011

Yes, Millies are definitely a food for them. One of their favorites. No natural predators but some wrasses will help with them.

justreefin · Apr 3, 2011

Wrasses of the Halichoeres species (ex..Six line, yellow, green wrasse) are known to munch on flatworms.

NeverlosT · Apr 7, 2011

dont think that you can just let them kill the rest of the SPS and then they will starve. You have to manually remove all SPS from the system (and kill what you cant remove) for the AEFW to starve (which takes a couple months). If you leave even a bit of SPS, the population will just reduce and they will resurge when you reintroduce SPS. They can live in a kind of equilibrium with coral, keeping it from looking good or growing well but not killing it (survival mechanism).

Electrobes · Apr 7, 2011

It will definitely take them a long time to vanish, and realistically it's not something you want to chance. You can either wait a long time and hope to have them all dead, or you can manually remove them.

Wrasses eating them is like peppermint shrimp eating aptasia... yes they can but they won't always.

Troylee · Apr 7, 2011

Any fish eats them once there in the water column.... There is no predator or naked eye that can spot them on a coral that's the problem!!!! They blend very well a wrasse might catch one here or there but if you dip a infested colony hundreds if not thousands come off it and fish don't see them since there attached to the stalks and very flat.... Most fish can't even get into the colony to even try and eradicate them.... You gotta remove and aggressively dip everything for weeks while the tank is fallow.....