It CAN Happen to you

Zoaelite · #1 05-15-2009, 04:26 PM

That really sucks Mark, good luck with them as you said they are hell. Any ideas on how you are going to combat them, chemically or naturally?
Levi

GreenSpottedPuffer · #2 05-15-2009, 04:28 PM

I have found them two of the past three times I have bought and dipped corals from LFS.

xtreme · #3 05-15-2009, 04:30 PM

Seems to be a lot of these going around lately. I'm on the look out thats for sure.

Drock169 · #4 05-15-2009, 04:41 PM

best thing to do is just toss those infected colonies, usually they are very localized.

GreenSpottedPuffer · #5 05-15-2009, 05:06 PM

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Originally Posted by Drock169

best thing to do is just toss those infected colonies, usually they are very localized.

This is what I did with the last one. Hard to toss away $60 but didnt want to risk my tank full of acros and I have no QT.

Delphinus · #6 05-15-2009, 05:22 PM

Any pictures of the damage? Have you seen any flatworms yourself? Just wondering what they look like, because I had a couple frags do well for about 2 months then all of a sudden bam, splotchy and patchy damage (and fairly severe although the impacted corals are not yet total losses - although they may be in time, I don't know). But I don't see flatworms. And I did dip new arrivals so not really sure what to make of things at the moment.

GreenSpottedPuffer · #7 05-15-2009, 05:31 PM

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Originally Posted by Delphinus

Any pictures of the damage? Have you seen any flatworms yourself? Just wondering what they look like, because I had a couple frags do well for about 2 months then all of a sudden bam, splotchy and patchy damage (and fairly severe although the impacted corals are not yet total losses - although they may be in time, I don't know). But I don't see flatworms. And I did dip new arrivals so not really sure what to make of things at the moment.

I don`t have pictures and the ones I found were too small to really see without a magnifying glass. I could see one of them without but most were tiny. They come off right away when you dip in Revive.

They are kind of a clear flat worm that takes on the color of the coral which makes them hard to see. I guess they have a slight tint to them but I dont know how to describe it.

my2rotties · #8 05-15-2009, 05:37 PM

Can you take a couple of pictures of the affected corals by any chance? I don't know what kind of bites to be looking for? I always dips all my corals, but it is always good to know what to look for.

Do they look like fish bites? Are they in the same area, and are being eaten in that area, or is it all over the place?

Delphinus · #9 05-19-2009, 09:19 PM

What's betadine, where do you get it? Sounds like something you get a pharmacy? If so what's the concentration you want to use?

Ephraim · #10 05-15-2009, 04:46 PM

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?