AEFW eggs!!! for those who doesnt know what to look for

[imisky]

hey guys,

i just thought id share this with everyone since alot of people dont know what acropora eating flatworm (AEFW) eggs look like or how to locate them.

the eggs are usually at the base of the coral, that can be the plug that its on to LRR that they are attached to. If the coral is in any way STN/RTNing and showing bone white skeleton then where the flesh meets the skeleton becomes the base. this is where the eggs usually are but they can be found else where as well.

to keep him anonymous (unless he wants to chime in) i took some corals from a friend who was having issues with corals turning brown/STN/RTNing thinking maybe it was his tank parameter or something other then pests in his tank that made it happen. Since i had just setup a frag tank 2-3months ago and its empty i thought it lend him a hand and give him time to get things back in order for his tank so he doesnt lose anymore corals.

so i had the corals for a few weeks, the pieces he brought over all had PE once they were in the tank for a few hours and magically a piece died out of no where in a week. During the whole time i was inspecting all the corals and didnt see signs of RB or AEFW. some of the corals even started to color back up. so everything is starting to point towards water parameters and possible chemicals getting into his tank causing the RTN while he had it. Out of no where as i looked into the tank today i see a piece of his coral half bone white i took it out and looked at the coral and found....(picture blew). i instantly turned off all the flow and looked at the corals and wow can i see alot of RB all over the place, even on the pieces that were coloring back up.

so i ran to my room grabed the camera took some pictures, ran back to my room put the camera down, grabed a tab of interceptor and dosed it and now is the treatment for 2 more weeks on the tank to kill them all. at least i found the culprit that was killing the corals in his tank and browning everything out


and THANK GOD its in my frag tank and not the display, enjoy guys



EDIT:..it was actually AEFW eggs, it wasnt until lights out that i went and checked and saw big AEFWs on the corals munching away...