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[Ephraim]

I've got some reading to do to come up with a treatment plan. I am hoping i can avoid the "move all my acros route and separate qt them for more than a month". As it stands they seem to only be located in a very small area of the tank. And initially i am going to work on the hope/assumption that they have no spread to far. I am going to grab some betadine on the way home from the airport sunday night and start dipping all colonies and frags immediately to drop down the numbers.

Has anyone found any predators for these yet? Green madarin? some kinda wrasse?

[GreenSpottedPuffer]

Originally Posted by Ephraim

I've got some reading to do to come up with a treatment plan. I am hoping i can avoid the "move all my acros route and separate qt them for more than a month". As it stands they seem to only be located in a very small area of the tank. And initially i am going to work on the hope/assumption that they have no spread to far. I am going to grab some betadine on the way home from the airport sunday night and start dipping all colonies and frags immediately to drop down the numbers.

Has anyone found any predators for these yet? Green madarin? some kinda wrasse?

Apparently 6 line wrasse will eat them...sometimes.

There was a guy on the ZEO forum who added 6 six lines and they put a dent in the numbers but never got rid of all of them and he still had to QT I think. From all the reading I have done on RC, they spread and you might need to take all acros out

[Ephraim]

i'd like to add a six line to also keep spaghetti worms in check too but i have a magenta dottyback in there that keeps killing them. Gotta catch him out first. Off the get go i am going to try a dipping approach and try to get the dottyback out and into one of my other tanks so i can get a sixline. Basically make it as hard as possible for these damn things to live in the tank. If i see more spreading then i will have to go the QT route.

I would like to avoid tossing the affected peices, a tri color nana(super sweet), a dark purple valida that grows like a beast, and a nice deepwater white and purple. They are all some of my favorites, i'd like to save them if at all possible.

I have not seen the worms themselves, from what i understand it is next to impossible to see them unless they are off the coral in a white bowl. But the white spots i am seeing on the coral definately matches pictures i have seen of other people's issues.

What dips can people reccomend that will be both effective but not stress the acros too much.

[GreenSpottedPuffer]

Originally Posted by Ephraim

i'd like to add a six line to also keep spaghetti worms in check too but i have a magenta dottyback in there that keeps killing them. Gotta catch him out first. Off the get go i am going to try a dipping approach and try to get the dottyback out and into one of my other tanks so i can get a sixline. Basically make it as hard as possible for these damn things to live in the tank. If i see more spreading then i will have to go the QT route.

I would like to avoid tossing the affected peices, a tri color nana(super sweet), a dark purple valida that grows like a beast, and a nice deepwater white and purple. They are all some of my favorites, i'd like to save them if at all possible.

I have not seen the worms themselves, from what i understand it is next to impossible to see them unless they are off the coral in a white bowl. But the white spots i am seeing on the coral definately matches pictures i have seen of other people's issues.

What dips can people reccomend that will be both effective but not stress the acros too much.

Revive is the best IMO, never stresses the corals at all.

FWIW when the guy was using six lines to help with AEFW, he had to blow them off the corals with a turkey baster so they would float around the tank and the six lines would eat them. Otherwise he said they wouldn`t go near them on the actual corals.

[Ephraim]

hmmm interesting, maybe i will hold off on the six line then. I dont like the idea of blasting them off the corals at this point as it seems pretty localized. Blasting them off would prob worsen the problem from this point.

[Ephraim]

i will post a ton pics on sunday night of the damage, people need to know exactly what this looks like so they can catch it early. Bites are very small, less that a mm long, slightly oval in shape, appearing in clusters around base areas and armpits of branches.

Acro crabs - I use a plastic chop stick to chase them out of acros, also works well for stabbing and skooshing the bad crabs.

[my2rotties]

Would this be a contributing factor to STN? I do dip all corals in Revive, but maybe hubby takes them out too soon. I always see critters in the solution, but they always look like little pods and such...

Originally Posted by Ephraim

i will post a ton pics on sunday night of the damage, people need to know exactly what this looks like so they can catch it early. Bites are very small, less that a mm long, slightly oval in shape, appearing in clusters around base areas and armpits of branches.

Acro crabs - I use a plastic chop stick to chase them out of acros, also works well for stabbing and skooshing the bad crabs.