Falc!
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Background: tank has been up going on 2 years. Acro dominant tank and flourishing. I was adding new frags from online vendors mostly. I was using Red Sea dip, revive and bayer on all frags before entering display.
Then one day I noticed a newer frag, ASD Mille went from looking super polymer out and getting colorful tips and starting to encrust take a sharp turn to the ugly side. I didn’t know what to do so I left it and figured I’ll give it a few days since all parameters had been stable for months and everything had been going great… things got worst and one day during water change a power head that I use to blow rocks off during water change hit the milli and worms flew everywhere!
I grabbed my Turkey baster and and a couple more came off along with some of the corals flesh. I started to blast other corals and found more worms in or their milles and on various other corals.
After doing a lot of research, I through in several different wrasse including yellow corris melaranus 6 line and eventually a ruby red since my lil daughter said she was so pretty. I used Turkey baster to blast corals every other day and all wrasse and especially the ruby red would go crazy eating them. The corals reacted by not dying but did lose color and lots of polyp extension.
Then came the chemicals, “Purge” was the first treatment since I couldn’t get all corals out to dip because they were all encrusted on rocks, only a few I could take out but very few. After 2 bottles of purge, I still had worms every time I used Turkey baster.
AEFW X was next treatment, was worst one since I found even more worms every time I Turkey basted
Flatworm Stop was the next, and this with the Turkey baster seemed to lower the amount of worms and even went a couple days without any worms basted. 7 months later and every time I thought it was getting better, I would find More worms!
Getting ready to quit and days in of research, all I found were dips and dips but I couldn’t take all out of tank. But then I came across a treatment that I had overlooked because it required draining most of the water and I only found like 1 video and not much on web itself about the process.
Reaching the 1 year mark I decided to try it as last resort. So from what I gathered and what I did was drain the display down to a couple inches so fish can stay in water and in a spray bottle mixed 10 grams of potassion P from Brightwell. I turn lights very low. I sprayed all the coral with the potassion p and let it sit for 18 mins and then filled the tank back up and went ahead and did a 20% water change. To help slime up the coral and clean it off better I ran the return a bit dry and blasted bubbles for like 10 min. There was slime everywhere and there were DEAD WORMS FLOATING AROUND TOO, I pulled a couple out and verified dead dead.….
Two days later I Turkey basted and 0 worms and have continued the treatment every Friday for 3 weeks and I will do a 4th treatment this Friday and to this day even on treatment days, 0 worms. I don’t know if I will continue past a 4th week of treatment but I might do till 5th because I never want to go through this again. I also don’t want to declare victory just yet but as of 3 weeks ago, I am winning
FYI Video says like 15-20min treatment if I recall correctly and I also used a higher dose of 10g per liter vs the video recommendation of 2g. I think they called it the Bill Morgan treatment. Anyways I thought I’d share my experience and I’ll post pics on Friday when I do the 4th treatment
Then one day I noticed a newer frag, ASD Mille went from looking super polymer out and getting colorful tips and starting to encrust take a sharp turn to the ugly side. I didn’t know what to do so I left it and figured I’ll give it a few days since all parameters had been stable for months and everything had been going great… things got worst and one day during water change a power head that I use to blow rocks off during water change hit the milli and worms flew everywhere!
I grabbed my Turkey baster and and a couple more came off along with some of the corals flesh. I started to blast other corals and found more worms in or their milles and on various other corals.
After doing a lot of research, I through in several different wrasse including yellow corris melaranus 6 line and eventually a ruby red since my lil daughter said she was so pretty. I used Turkey baster to blast corals every other day and all wrasse and especially the ruby red would go crazy eating them. The corals reacted by not dying but did lose color and lots of polyp extension.
Then came the chemicals, “Purge” was the first treatment since I couldn’t get all corals out to dip because they were all encrusted on rocks, only a few I could take out but very few. After 2 bottles of purge, I still had worms every time I used Turkey baster.
AEFW X was next treatment, was worst one since I found even more worms every time I Turkey basted
Flatworm Stop was the next, and this with the Turkey baster seemed to lower the amount of worms and even went a couple days without any worms basted. 7 months later and every time I thought it was getting better, I would find More worms!
Getting ready to quit and days in of research, all I found were dips and dips but I couldn’t take all out of tank. But then I came across a treatment that I had overlooked because it required draining most of the water and I only found like 1 video and not much on web itself about the process.
Reaching the 1 year mark I decided to try it as last resort. So from what I gathered and what I did was drain the display down to a couple inches so fish can stay in water and in a spray bottle mixed 10 grams of potassion P from Brightwell. I turn lights very low. I sprayed all the coral with the potassion p and let it sit for 18 mins and then filled the tank back up and went ahead and did a 20% water change. To help slime up the coral and clean it off better I ran the return a bit dry and blasted bubbles for like 10 min. There was slime everywhere and there were DEAD WORMS FLOATING AROUND TOO, I pulled a couple out and verified dead dead.….
Two days later I Turkey basted and 0 worms and have continued the treatment every Friday for 3 weeks and I will do a 4th treatment this Friday and to this day even on treatment days, 0 worms. I don’t know if I will continue past a 4th week of treatment but I might do till 5th because I never want to go through this again. I also don’t want to declare victory just yet but as of 3 weeks ago, I am winning
FYI Video says like 15-20min treatment if I recall correctly and I also used a higher dose of 10g per liter vs the video recommendation of 2g. I think they called it the Bill Morgan treatment. Anyways I thought I’d share my experience and I’ll post pics on Friday when I do the 4th treatment
