Honest opinion needed re. frags & AEFW's

[Borderjumper]

Originally Posted by fishmaster

Seriously man, for the love of God, get a quarantine tank! Learn from my bad experience! This pest exists in Victoria! People have it and don't know it.

Im not a man I know in a perfect world I should have a Q tank... but I just plain and simple dont have the room for one!. There is no way new pieces would go in my reef tanks.. they do spend some "quality" time in my frag tank. Sorry to hear about your AEFW. I noticed you and Sarah are both in Campbell River, did you have the same source for the aefw?

[marie]

I would buy

And for those that say no they wouldn't buy, does that mean you won't by frags privately? Hes not saying that you are buying flatworm infested frags just that he had flatworms once in his system.


Quarantining is the only way to avoid problems and a coral quarantine is even easier to set up then one for fish

[fishmaster]

Originally Posted by Borderjumper

Im not a man I know in a perfect world I should have a Q tank... but I just plain and simple dont have the room for one!. There is no way new pieces would go in my reef tanks.. they do spend some "quality" time in my frag tank. Sorry to hear about your AEFW. I noticed you and Sarah are both in Campbell River, did you have the same source for the aefw?

Sorry for calling you a man!
Well, as far as the source goes. I don't want to turn this into a finger pointing session. After all, we should have caught it ourselves before the corals went into our tanks. Let's use it as a lesson to everyone who doesn't already practice strict quarantine methods. Again, KNOW WHAT TO LOOK FOR!!! We did quarantine, but didn't looks for AEFW's. Also, people who havn't strictly quarantined in the past & looked for AEFW's should be checking for them already in their tanks. They don't eat your tank overnight! They can go unnoticed for a long time. You might think you are slowly loosing corals to STN.

[andresont]

How about keepeing these hungry shrimps in the sump to help with AEFW and eggs ?
IF this method works SPS can be placed in the sump for an hour or so.

http://www.korallen-zucht.de/index.p..._id=52&clang=1

http://www.canreef.com/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=37579

[fishmaster]

RE: Andresont's Camel shrimp post.

Yes, Sarah(chaloupa) will be trying that method. I'm just thinking of getting out for a while. I'd feel much more comfortable fragging everything to be sure there's no AEFW's before attemting to pass them on to others. I might use them as part of my quarentine before moving corals to my frag tank.

[michika]

I would buy, dip and QT for sure. Although I would definitely appreciate the heads up, just so I make sure I look that extra bit closer.

[Chaloupa]

It's a tough call....I would most likely purchase corals that had been treated for AEFW and were clean...but I would Q tank them, dip and see how they fared and then put into my display tank after 6-8 weeks. I totally get where you're coming from of course having them myself. Throwing them away is really really hard

[fishmaster]

Thanks for the feedback! More would be very much appreciated