Anyone know anything about black bugs?

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I have heard a little bit about a new acro pest people have been calling "œblack bugs". My acros are not looking very happy and I'm wondering if I have them. I've had red bugs before but these look different. They look and behave kind of like red bugs but they are a little bigger, black, and rounder. They look kind of like little poppy seeds running around on my acros. I am setting up a quarantine tank and planning to dip and move all the acros out of the infested tank and use the "œstarve them out" technique. If the dip doesn't work I'm planning to hit the quarantine tank with the normal three doses of interceptor. I'm planning to let the display tank be acro free for about a month. Does anyone know anything about black bugs, or whatever I may have, and if interceptor and the "œstarve them out" approach will work with them?

Thanks!

 

[Denadai]

I had black bugs two years ago , I just diped with ascaridil and solved the problem

Best Regards

 

[StrategicReef]

they are probably all over the rocks just that you can see it easier on the SPS.
seems like they are just a kind of pods, until someone have a picture of them swarming an acropora like red bugs do, I would not believe they are pests.

 

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they are probably all over the rocks just that you can see it easier on the SPS.
seems like they are just a kind of pods, until someone have a picture of them swarming an acropora like red bugs do, I would not believe they are pests.

That's exactly what I'm wondering. I see them all over my acros and I have never seen them in the past. I've only recently heard about "black bugs" and am wondering if it's them. They are quite a lot of them on my acros, not as many as like you would get with red bugs but they are larger.

Denadai: Could you elaborate a little bit? Did your black bugs look like what I describe? I'm not sure what ascaridil is. Is it iodine? I coulden't get much on Google about it.

I would like to get a few more first hand accounts from anyone who has actually seen and/or had to deal with "black bugs".

I will try and post a picture, but I'm pretty would just look like a black dot. I don't have a microscope to get a good close-up.

Thanks for the help...

 

[Ricunger]

Interesting... This is the first i am hearing of them.

 

[Denadai]

they are probably all over the rocks just that you can see it easier on the SPS.
seems like they are just a kind of pods, until someone have a picture of them swarming an acropora like red bugs do, I would not believe they are pests.

Believe because those bugs was eating my corals

 

[StrategicReef]

I have seen one or two very occasionally but no problem. That's not to say we are looking at two completely different creatures.

 

[Ephraim]

i have read of black bugs that irritate monties but not acros. Interceptor will kill 'em.

 

[Denadai]