No Way to know Mark. Sounds like he's traded things with others since last fall, and I think it's entirely possible that many others are trading these than know they have them. So people like Casey and this guy that alerted me to his infestation certainly could have gotten them from me, or maybe they got it from another trade.Reef55 said:A couple of points IMO / IME...
1) Nate, the person who says they got AEFW's from you... are you positive they have not added anything to their system before or after what they got from you? They might have already had them in their in a low population before they got your frags.
I'm not really arguing about whether people got them from me because I don't think it changes anything. People who know they have them need to treat their tanks. People who traded with me and others in the last year should also treat their corals, imo. Way more people have these than know, so I don't think folks should have a false sense of security from the fact that they don't have corals from me or Chuck. I really think these things are all over the place, and people who find them will tend to think they got it somehow from the small handful of people who have made it public that the worms are in their tanks (and maybe they did), but there are positively many more sources of this pest.
Derek, you asked if you're doomed because you traded with me - I don't think so, but I still think you should either tell everyone you trade with to treat your frags, or you treat your outgoing frags. Better yet, QT your corals for a couple weeks and treat them with Levamisole. I don't think you should necessarily do this because you traded with me - I think any active traders should treat their corals now, if we're to get beyond this pest. Otherwise it's just going to keep going around for a couple years. (of course this is easy for me to recommend because I don't have corals to QT - I understand how difficult this could be for some).
Nate