acro flatworms

on previous threads ive tried to get answers on what was going on with my acroporas and over the the last 3 days of googling and coming across a video on marinedepot for revive the last coral they show had the same bite mark that i saw on my one acro i was stunned on how a worm can bypass me seeing it yet leave a mark that big,this was the only coral to show any marks other than the green acro if you ran by the thread that had red spots with some bleaching i think i got hit by red bugs also but nothings drasticly changed

anyway nothing has shown any bite marks whatsoever in 3+ days could the flatworms have just died off? or be in the process of dying all smooth skin acros are gone just a staghorn,millie,monti's and a birdsnest

 

Aefw don't usually infect the types you have left... But thats not to say that they won't infect them. Just be careful and keep a verrry close eye on them

 

what i was thinking also was that the markings were from the store it shipped from they dip everything before it leaves i know its debatable but majority of the time cant you see acro worms moving among your corals?

 

oh the only drastic change was a mass increase of spiriod worms those little cool lookin things.. i never saw one before the last week now i have atleast 200 my refugium walls are covered top to bottom

 

its very hard to spot the flatworms and it is much easier to see their bite marks. if you have bite marks then you have flatworms.

also normal dipping will not kill them. you have to manually remove or treat with levamisole HCL. a strong dip in ReVive will sometimes knock them off.

 

i think they use coralrx or lugols i just stumbled apon the markings from a promotional youtube video fro revive because i thought about using that from now on because the way coralrx made it sound was like i had to change the dip water after every frag