are these red bugs on my acro
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Piper27
I love bengals
The coral looks irritated and is probably why the white spots are there, messerenrial filiments probably.
The pod looking things could be just Pods. I have seen that kind before and they don't really do any damage, they are not.all only on corals that are irritated from something. Maybe just dip it and see if the Pods go back to that acro. They seem to only like acros that are in lower light areas and that are close to rockwork from what I have seen. Interceptor may kill them I agree.
I don't see any aefw.
Also I am pretty positive that Redbugs are live bearers and don't lay eggs. Lots of people have rid their tank with one interceptor treatment. It's available again by prescription at a vet. Bring in all the info and images you can find online, teaching the vet about them is the key to getting a prescription. As well as finding exotic pet vets, and not going to a large well known multilocation vet.
I had good luck and went to get some since I was collecting again activley and the vet didn't charge me a visit fee and sold me as many as I wanted. I got a number of boxes
he was happy I came in and showed him about Redbugs. He learned a lot I would guess.
The pod looking things could be just Pods. I have seen that kind before and they don't really do any damage, they are not.all only on corals that are irritated from something. Maybe just dip it and see if the Pods go back to that acro. They seem to only like acros that are in lower light areas and that are close to rockwork from what I have seen. Interceptor may kill them I agree.
I don't see any aefw.
Also I am pretty positive that Redbugs are live bearers and don't lay eggs. Lots of people have rid their tank with one interceptor treatment. It's available again by prescription at a vet. Bring in all the info and images you can find online, teaching the vet about them is the key to getting a prescription. As well as finding exotic pet vets, and not going to a large well known multilocation vet.
I had good luck and went to get some since I was collecting again activley and the vet didn't charge me a visit fee and sold me as many as I wanted. I got a number of boxes
he was happy I came in and showed him about Redbugs. He learned a lot I would guess.
reefmutt
Active member
Certainly looks like bugs.. One color or another..
I'd dip it..
My experience with red bugs and dips is that they are very resistant because the bugs take cover inside the corralite, tucked in with the coral polyp.
THis dramatically delays the dip's affecting the bugs..
Using Bayer at 10ml per 250 ml tank water, standard 10 minute dip was not effective.
I did a 30 minute dip and it was successful.
The coral was healthy and not too stressed and the dip did not affect the coral at all..
I'd dip it..
My experience with red bugs and dips is that they are very resistant because the bugs take cover inside the corralite, tucked in with the coral polyp.
THis dramatically delays the dip's affecting the bugs..
Using Bayer at 10ml per 250 ml tank water, standard 10 minute dip was not effective.
I did a 30 minute dip and it was successful.
The coral was healthy and not too stressed and the dip did not affect the coral at all..
killinit123
New member
interceptor is a risky treatment in my opinion especially if you have lots of shrimp and snails and other inverts.. it will likely wipe them all out and also will decimate your pod population. interceptor is a product which kills all arthopods so I would just research it before you go ahead and do it if you haven't already.
I too have red bugs and I have done two treatments with bayer and they keep coming back.. I'm going to try it a third time and dip for 30 min and hopefully this will fix the problem
I too have red bugs and I have done two treatments with bayer and they keep coming back.. I'm going to try it a third time and dip for 30 min and hopefully this will fix the problem
MrSandman
Team RC
IMO, Interceptor is highly effective if done right. You should treat 3 times in a row (1x per week for 3 consecutive weeks) with 20% water changes in between while running carbon.
I had white bugs before, treated 1x with Interceptor and they slowly came back on this purple bonsai colony only.
I got the red bugs from some trades and at that point I just decided to treat the entire tank correctly (3x). They have not come back and its been many months since.
I had a cleaner shrimp, 2 peppermints and a pistol shrimp. No hermits. I also have a bunch of snails and an anemone. I ended up losing the cleaner shrimp and the 2 peppermints. The pistol, snails and the anemone all survived. I haven't even bothered to see whether i have any pods left. To me it didn't matter. The 3 shrimp were a very small price to pay for having healthy sps. Growth/coloration on my SPS have been amazing and polyps are showing crazy extension. The corals did not suffer through it one bit.
Dipping is only a temporary band-aid solution and there is no guarantee that you will kill everything by doing so. I dipped everything prior to introducing to my tank. I even have a large jewelers magnifying glass that I use to inspect all corals before introduction. It didn’t work. If these buggers are in your tank, then you will need to treat the whole tank. In fact, Interceptor is so easy to use I might consider using it as a preventative measure every 6 months or so if I continue to keep adding new corals to my tank. Of all the pests that we could have in our tanks (e.g. aiptasia, valonia, AEFW's, vermitid snails, hydroids, majanos, red slime, you name it...) red bugs are EASILY the easiest to eradicate with a whole tank treatment.
Again, this is just my opinion, but i've been doing this reefing thing for a while so take it for what it's worth.
I had white bugs before, treated 1x with Interceptor and they slowly came back on this purple bonsai colony only.
I got the red bugs from some trades and at that point I just decided to treat the entire tank correctly (3x). They have not come back and its been many months since.
I had a cleaner shrimp, 2 peppermints and a pistol shrimp. No hermits. I also have a bunch of snails and an anemone. I ended up losing the cleaner shrimp and the 2 peppermints. The pistol, snails and the anemone all survived. I haven't even bothered to see whether i have any pods left. To me it didn't matter. The 3 shrimp were a very small price to pay for having healthy sps. Growth/coloration on my SPS have been amazing and polyps are showing crazy extension. The corals did not suffer through it one bit.
Dipping is only a temporary band-aid solution and there is no guarantee that you will kill everything by doing so. I dipped everything prior to introducing to my tank. I even have a large jewelers magnifying glass that I use to inspect all corals before introduction. It didn’t work. If these buggers are in your tank, then you will need to treat the whole tank. In fact, Interceptor is so easy to use I might consider using it as a preventative measure every 6 months or so if I continue to keep adding new corals to my tank. Of all the pests that we could have in our tanks (e.g. aiptasia, valonia, AEFW's, vermitid snails, hydroids, majanos, red slime, you name it...) red bugs are EASILY the easiest to eradicate with a whole tank treatment.
Again, this is just my opinion, but i've been doing this reefing thing for a while so take it for what it's worth.
killinit123
New member
I completely agree that it is the only way to rid the tank of these bugs for sure. although everyones tank is different in term of the inhabitants that are in them. for instance i have a lot of snails hermits and various shrimp. I also have a mandarin and a pipe fish that rely on my pod population for good health and survival. so for me this treatment is risky and could have an indirect effect on my fish that rely on pods to survive. that being said I still believe it is worth the risk because like you mentioned the overall health of my sps is what i am in this hobby for. I don't enjoy risking killing any living creature with a treatment but you have to consider risk versus reward on the topic of sps eating bugs. I have also tried various dips problem is most of my colonies are encrusted and like also said it is just a band aid. I am now going to try interceptor because my red bugs have come back and seem to be taking off fairly rapidly so I really have no other choice unless i want to lose 1,000s of dollars in coral. thats the only reason i said it is risky and should be researched before proceeding with this treatment.
i only have 1 fire shimp and a few hermits which they will be taken out of the tank before treatment. my only concern is the 6 pink anemone that i have which i cant and dont want to remove. Most posts i read on the interceptor treatment has no affects on corals so im not worry about that.
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