It's been a rough six months. I found AEFW while basting some sand off my acros. I was in self denial and let the tank go. Not until I slowly lost my colonies that I decided to do something about it. I lost the big staghorn, yellow tort, and some other colonies. After doing a lot of reading, I decided to give Bayer a try. It's either I do something or all my acros will slowly get eating. When I went back to look at some of the macro shots, I can actually see the bite marks from the AEFW.
I had to pull all the colonies encrusted on the rock and removed it from the rock. The acro went in the Bayer solution with 1gallon of tank water and 1 cup of Bayer for 30-45minutes. I scraped and chiseled out the remaining encrusting on the rock and rinse out the rock with RODI and put it back into the tank. The colonies that were greatly affected by AEFW and had egg on it, I threw out. It wasn't as hard of a process as I thought and I should've done it the moment I found AEFW. I would've saved a lot of my acros. But lesson learned. I now dipped everything with Bayer before entering the tank. Quarantine is not an option as I don't have any room for the set up. I find Bayer works really well and I've yet to lose any sps with this dip. After 3 week of the initial Bayer dip, I took everything out and dip again. I now can see the acros are taking off and color up again. It's now roughly 2 weeks after the last dip and I don't see any bite marks or FW flying off when I bast the colonies.
How the tank looks now. The clams has been moved to the middle of the tank under the MH allowing the acanthrophyllia more room.
I had to pull all the colonies encrusted on the rock and removed it from the rock. The acro went in the Bayer solution with 1gallon of tank water and 1 cup of Bayer for 30-45minutes. I scraped and chiseled out the remaining encrusting on the rock and rinse out the rock with RODI and put it back into the tank. The colonies that were greatly affected by AEFW and had egg on it, I threw out. It wasn't as hard of a process as I thought and I should've done it the moment I found AEFW. I would've saved a lot of my acros. But lesson learned. I now dipped everything with Bayer before entering the tank. Quarantine is not an option as I don't have any room for the set up. I find Bayer works really well and I've yet to lose any sps with this dip. After 3 week of the initial Bayer dip, I took everything out and dip again. I now can see the acros are taking off and color up again. It's now roughly 2 weeks after the last dip and I don't see any bite marks or FW flying off when I bast the colonies.
How the tank looks now. The clams has been moved to the middle of the tank under the MH allowing the acanthrophyllia more room.