Brad Vaughn
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A video of them swimming around in the dip
An Almost Successful In Tank AEFW Treatment
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Brad Vaughn
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I have seen posts that wrasses and mandarins will eat them/population control. But I don't think anything eradicates them completely. I am breaking down the tank, cooking the rock in the sun, breaking off small frags of whatever I can save, and quarantining what LPS I have. I will take much stronger preventative measures from here on out.
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Sorry for your lossAfter searching and searching online I finally found this thread. Not much info out there about these bugs. I just had them outbreak in my 220 and they have totally destroyed many, many acors. Have you seen them on anything else? montis? I have not yet seen them on my pocillpora or montis. I am breaking everything down, drying everything out and running freshwater over everything. Ditching all corals because I have seen them hanging on lps, although not eating them. Years of work gone. =(
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Is that theory or your actual experience? i saw them also running around on my duncan although it doesn't appear to be eaten ....
Experience. I took all the sps 5 weeks ago. With out anything to eat they starve in about 5 days. But you have to wait until the eggs hatch.
I will go 8 weeks. It's like quarantining your tank. Sps QT is 30 days and dip every 5 days. So I was told 5 weeks by very knowledgeable high end sps sellers. I will go 8 just for peace of mind.
I will go 8 weeks. It's like quarantining your tank. Sps QT is 30 days and dip every 5 days. So I was told 5 weeks by very knowledgeable high end sps sellers. I will go 8 just for peace of mind.
Brad Vaughn
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Ok just so I know. This is for the grey bugs ..that interceptor doesn't work on? Just want to be as thorough as I can since nothing has worked so far.
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and ... thank you. This gives me some hope of not losing everything or having to cook the rock. did you do all sps, just acros or ....?
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Awesome. Thank you. Much better option. Weird how they only get on some and not others. My bonsai's look find. Some other smoothed skin totally wiped out.
Malira, are you referring to just AEFWs? I believe Brad is discussing black bugs here. If I am mistaken, please ignore me.
As I understand it, Malira, you've been fighting AEFW with the help of Marsh and particularly, Diesel. I didn't ever see anything about you fighting black bugs too!
Sorry to interject but I didn't want Brad thinking your method would work for black bugs as well. I'm not saying that it doesn't but it just seemed to me a miscommunication between two parties that I wanted to point out just in case.
True, I am talking about only AEFWs. His first post called them Acro bugs, so I took that as being AEFWs.
I do not have any experience with black bugs. Do you see some in his pics? Is that what those black dots are?
I only mention because he had mentioned black bugs. The video is too fuzzy for me to see anything so nothing conclusive here. Again, only wanted to point out as it seemed like you were both talking about a different pest. I could entirely be wrong.
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