!!!Herpes outbreak!!!

[Diesel]

Now we finally know how to treat AEFW we have this popping up!!

http://oregonstate.edu/ua/ncs/archi...r-marine-viruses-linked-coral-bleaching-event

http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fmicb.2016.00127/abstract

 

[nervousmonkey]

Also another reason to wash your hands before and after putting them in your tank!! Imagine telling your doctor you got herpes from your Acro colony... :eek:

 

[Diesel]

This hobby never cease to amaze me :)

 

[fishdoc11]

FWIW I am a veterinarian and I can tell you most animals carry at least one type of herpes virus, many, like humans, carry several. The good thing is that they typically can't be transmitted to other species. That means you can't catch herpes from a cat for example. Not for certain whether you can catch it from an acro but that wouldn't be the main reason I would wash my hands after touching one;)

 

[Diesel]

Ugh, thanks Doc.
I almost put the Diesel tank up for sale. :eek:

 

[Hunter S Thompson]

Therein lies the cure.

http://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/coral_medicine.html

 

[Pete polyp]

Also another reason to wash your hands before and after putting them in your tank!! Imagine telling your doctor you got herpes from your Acro colony... :eek:

Better yet..... try selling that one to your wife!

 

[Reef Pets]

Now we finally know how to treat AEFW we have this popping up!!

http://oregonstate.edu/ua/ncs/archi...r-marine-viruses-linked-coral-bleaching-event

http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fmicb.2016.00127/abstract

Creating an alibi huh? "Oh honey I swear I got herpes from my coral"

 

[McMullen]

Interesting

 

[jhnnle01]

so if cipro (antibiotic) is used for anemonae, has anyone tried acyclovir (antiviral) for sps bleaching? Acyclovir is cheap and easy to get

 

[Shep]

Side note ~66% of the world's population as HSV

 

[Reef Pets]

HPV? Sexy Mike has it @sexycorals he was telling me about it..

 

[nervousmonkey]

Better yet..... try selling that one to your wife!

I would be dead more quickly than an RTN'ed Acro that you find bleached in the morning Pete. Uh uh. Ain't saying that. "That was NOT my Acro honey. I don't know how that nasty little coral got in there, I swear"

 

[nervousmonkey]

All joking aside about getting an STD from our corals (I really really really love my corals though...), this is pretty cool news. Thanks @Diesel for pointing out those articles. There is a lot of information we can glean through coral histology, proteomics, metabolomics, genomic analysis. There is so much that we don't know about corals. One would think that over the hundreds of thousands of years of evolutionary history in developing strategies to combat diseases, stationary corals would be able to defend themselves against something like herpes, but I guess lack of opposable thumbs keeps them from being able to use protection... OK, one more joke. Back to the point, with a simple swab of coral tissue, we can learn a lot about what is causing a coral to become stressed, or conversely, producing proteins signaling growth (GFP for example). What would we call that test though? Polyp antagonist proteomics? So do our corals now have to have yearly polyp antagonist proteomic smears done? :eek: Poor acros, they suffer enough by my hand without subjecting them to PAP smears too. ;)

 

[Diesel]

PAP treatment ............. new term in the acro world.

 

[nervousmonkey]

HAHA! If I actually started saying that I was taking a sample of my acros for a PAP, people would think I was nuts. Or super cool and cutting edge. Ooohh. LOL!

 

[Eckolancer]

I wonder if my acro has it but hasn't transmitted it to the others in the tank yet.
Before

After

I am running kessils which are the one led that puts off true UV lighting. Might be the cause as this is one of the highest acros in the tank.

 

[revhtree Verified Admin]

Filthy animals!

 

[ReefQueen]

Creating an alibi huh? "Oh honey I swear I got herpes from my coral"

You two crack me up!

 

[Diesel]

You two crack me up!

Acro's with herpes and sexy shrimp...... How can you explain that.
If I knew that 45 years ago I just stuck with my goldfish ;)