SDguy's AEFW adventure

[SDguy]

Awesome! But, no, you keep it...grow it...I'll take a frag when it's bigger

[SDguy]

People have been asking, so I finally shot some pics this morning....sorry for the quality. They are top downs with a slight ripple on the water surface. As soon as I clean the glass, I'll take some better ones through it, but you get the idea. Also, colors may be a bit off since I'm not used to photographing under these 12K ATI T5's.
Anywho, here are the survivors!.
I managed to save all of my big blue tip stag, just not all in one piece. Oh well....
Before:

Now:

In this pic, we've got the OT just barely in the pic on the left, some Nathan's green mille (actually saved the whole colony), ORA turquoise stag, ORA echinata, some other randon corals, and the most miraculous recovery, just upper right of center, ORA blue polyped green acro.

Some before shots of those corals:

[SDguy]

Biggest colonies that I saved, both unknowns:
Green stag:

No clue on ID:

Some before shots of those:


Another unknown that I have two large pieces of, turning all sorts of blue

[SDguy]

Also saved ORA purple tip stag, blue gomezi, unknown false PM (A. maryae?), green and purple tort, and ORA tort:

before shots:
ORA tort:

ORA purple tip stag:

Gomezi:

green and purple tort:


false PM:

[SDguy]

And finally, I managed to save several good sized chunks of my green and blue tenuis(?), just no good pics from the QT yet:

[jrlafrance]

Wow Peter, some very nice looking corals there! Cool that you were able to save what you could!

[MFR]

I have frags to trade you of what you need to replace when the time comes...

Best,

M

[SDguy]

Thanks James. Thanks Mike, very nice of you

[MFR]

I feel your pain.....M

[SDguy]

For people following this thread, some more info....

Saw new bite marks on a couple of their "favorite" corals, so everyone got dipped yesterday. 150mg per gallon of levimasol for 2 hours did nothing I took one coral with definite bitemarks and dipped it in 2X TMPCC. Sure enough, AEFW fell off. OK, so then I added another 150mg per gallon levimasol (final dose being 300mg per gallon). That got them.....they began to fall off. So this round I got about a dozen worms total. Not bad seeing as my first round I got 10X that from one coral I double checked by dipping several newly "bitten" corals in TMPCC after the levimasol....no more fell off.

[SDguy]

OK, this weekend should be the last weekend of treatments. I have already put several unaffected, from day 1, frags back on a rack in the main display. I lost a few more in QT (letting my alk drop to 6dKH didn't help I'm sure ) QT'ing acros isn't as easy as I thought. It's basically like having another whole system.

[SDguy]

This has been tough going. Even with a relatievly complete system setup on the QT, it has been difficult to keep the acros happy. pH , alk, and ca have all been problems. FWIW, I'd recomemnd anyone doing this use as SMALL a QT as possible and just change water constantly. A 60g QT made that difficult and pricey. Temp swings were also difficult to manage on hot days. This would have been easier during the winter.

Anyways, I've put my most prized remaining small pieces back in the main display on a rach high up in the middle of the front glass panel. My OT looked like it was about to go south on me, so I just moved it and a few others. So far, so good. They will stay there for a few weeks to confirm no worms

[acronautical]

Peter, if you had to give a longshot guess, which colony or frag do you think these creatures hitchhiked in on?

[SDguy]

A lokani frag.

[acronautical]

Wild or other-collected?