Olivier my friend-thanks for the offer, but these guys will not be hurt by the Flat worm exit.
Darren-That is encouraging to hear that at least these are a fairly easy pest, by reef pest standards.
Thanks for all the help guys. I started prepping for the treatment tonight, which includes stashing some pod filled chaeto in my makeshift aquaclear refugium on my newly running NPS tank. (oh did I mention I just set up a NPS tank? pictures of that will be forth coming). I am also moving all the crabs I can catch to that same tank. So far Jonathan got the harlequinns, I got a bunch of hermits (including my giant blue one, which got moved back to the main sump due to homicidal tendancies). And 2 of 3 (that I can see) emerald crabs. Also a porcelain crab. (still got one clever porcelain in the main that will prove to be difficult to catch. Still to catch and oust are my last emerald (giant guy too) A cleaner shrimp, a porcelain crab, and 2 pistol shrimp. I've kinda resigned my self that the pistols might not make it, they'd be impossible to catch. :-(.
Bax, my plan is to start treatment asap. I was going to hit the tank every week, for 3 or four weeks. That's not a good schedule according to what you posted? I should be doing the treatment every 3 weeks? Also I want to dip the target colonies, but most are stuck on quite well. And in the future, everything will definitely be quarantined from now on (lesson learned-dip isn't enough)
Phil-I don't think I got these from a fellow NJ reefer. Considering these have a pretty short life cycle, and I just noticed them, I think it was something more recent. I just picked up some frags from a couple LFS, so my bet is it is due to one of them. I am meticulous about dipping. I use double strength dip, and dip for double the time, and visually inspect before I put coral in a tank. Every coral, everytime. As we see now though, and bax has been telling us for a long time-dip is not enough, they must be quarantined too.
Darren-That is encouraging to hear that at least these are a fairly easy pest, by reef pest standards.
Thanks for all the help guys. I started prepping for the treatment tonight, which includes stashing some pod filled chaeto in my makeshift aquaclear refugium on my newly running NPS tank. (oh did I mention I just set up a NPS tank? pictures of that will be forth coming). I am also moving all the crabs I can catch to that same tank. So far Jonathan got the harlequinns, I got a bunch of hermits (including my giant blue one, which got moved back to the main sump due to homicidal tendancies). And 2 of 3 (that I can see) emerald crabs. Also a porcelain crab. (still got one clever porcelain in the main that will prove to be difficult to catch. Still to catch and oust are my last emerald (giant guy too) A cleaner shrimp, a porcelain crab, and 2 pistol shrimp. I've kinda resigned my self that the pistols might not make it, they'd be impossible to catch. :-(.
Bax, my plan is to start treatment asap. I was going to hit the tank every week, for 3 or four weeks. That's not a good schedule according to what you posted? I should be doing the treatment every 3 weeks? Also I want to dip the target colonies, but most are stuck on quite well. And in the future, everything will definitely be quarantined from now on (lesson learned-dip isn't enough)
Phil-I don't think I got these from a fellow NJ reefer. Considering these have a pretty short life cycle, and I just noticed them, I think it was something more recent. I just picked up some frags from a couple LFS, so my bet is it is due to one of them. I am meticulous about dipping. I use double strength dip, and dip for double the time, and visually inspect before I put coral in a tank. Every coral, everytime. As we see now though, and bax has been telling us for a long time-dip is not enough, they must be quarantined too.
