ETR's Acro Tank

Not you too buddy :(

imo coralRx isnt that affective against AEFW .. get bayer and keep coralrx for later use.. upto you though ..


EricTheRed said:
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EricTheRed said:
I'm using Coral RX because I have a new bottle and didn't know until recently how much cheaper the Bayer is compared to it. I dipped them all, scraped off any visible eggs and covered some eggs with glue. Will dip 1x week for 5 weeks. Worms need to be 3 weeks old before they are mature enough to lay new eggs so that will break the cycle. No acros left in the dt so any stragglers or new hatch-ling worms will die in 3-5 days without food.
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tinman said:
Not you too buddy :(

imo coralRx isnt that affective against AEFW .. get bayer and keep coralrx for later use.. upto you though ..
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Where do you buy Bayer at? Which one?

I also use CoralRX and Revive and have success with both so far.
 
EricTheRed said:
I'm using Coral RX because I have a new bottle and didn't know until recently how much cheaper the Bayer is compared to it. I dipped them all, scraped off any visible eggs and covered some eggs with glue. Will dip 1x week for 5 weeks. Worms need to be 3 weeks old before they are mature enough to lay new eggs so that will break the cycle. No acros left in the dt so any stragglers or new hatch-ling worms will die in 3-5 days without food.
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I don't know that 3-5 days is accurate. I've read up a ton on aefw, and it doesn't appear that people know how long the life cycle is. I've read more like 21-30 days, but the jury is still out. You'll be fine regardless, since you'll have your QT set up for weeks.

I went for 2.5 months with no acros just to be safe. However, my acros were deeply encrusted and I kept finding tiny specs of acros growing. A little kalk paste wiped them out.
 
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Back when i had em few yrs ago id turkey baster them off and some would stick to the wall of the turkey baster and would live for few days without very much moister so id say 3-5 days with out food is not accurate id say month or so
 
Sawdonkey said:
I don't know that 3-5 days is accurate. I've read up a ton on aefw, and it doesn't appear that people know how long the life cycle is. I've read more like 21-30 days, but the jury is still out. You'll be fine regardless, since you'll have your QT set up for weeks.

I went for 2.5 months with no acros just to be safe. However, my acros were deeply encrusted and I kept finding tiny specs of acros growing. A little kalk paste wiped them out.
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Good to know about the time to go fallow. Regardless, the dt will be fallow of acros for 5 weeks. As far as Coral RX, I am certain it works becasue i like to watch the worms die under a magnifying glass...brings me pleasure watching them shrivel up in agony, peel off and die :lol:
 
Note on the Coral RX, I dipped for 9 minutes and noticed that they don't die until 6+ minutes into the dip...so someone doing a quick or shorter dip might not kill them. In hindsight, this may have been part of my problem...
 
Wow that sucks Eric. This seems to be going around lately. Do you know where it came from?
 
Perhaps if I had found it sooner I might have been able to isolate the source but by the time I found them they had infected coral that I had rcvd from several sources.
 
ColaAddict said:
Ever think about trying that Potassium treatment?


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I looked into it. The potassium tx is an in-tank tx for instances when colonies are so large that it makes sense. In my case, I already had a stable tank to QT them in and they were either mini-colonies or frags that could be easily removed, although it certainly took a while because there were so many. The potassium tx kills fish & inverts and can cause a mini-cycle from the die-off w/ ammonia spike and algae explosion. IMO, None of which is worth dealing with unless your acros are so big that it is not possible to safely QT them. If it would have happened 2 or 3 years from now, then I'd have done it.
 
Oh no not you too. What is going on with all AEFWs everywhere now? Good luck and by the way love that Giesmann fixture looks good and I miss it.
 
So...figured I'd update on the treatment. I only lost one during tx and it was my Hawkins. It rtn'd in a 48 hours after the 1st dip and being moved to the new tank. Otherwise everything made the qt process. Unfortunately, after being dipped so many times and also (I think) was a low alk issue in qt, most of the survivors bleached. They all look bad....little pe and pale. I figured that the move back to the dt would be fatal for some...and I was right. I lost my Lime In The Sky, my CR Ignitor and Madjoe's baby-blue. There is also an echinata and carolina with a creepy case of stn that will likely puke in the next day or so.

No need to post pic's now but will once things color back up.
 
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