Are these Red Bugs? They sure do seem like it.

[jsousa]

What is the best treatment to date? I've heard Interceptor. What are the dosage instructions? Any ill effects to corals, inverts, anemones? Do you need to remove once treatment is over with anything but fresh carbon?

 

[sedor]

Yes they look like red bugs...

http://www.melevsreef.com/redbugs.html - This will explain everything you need to do in order to get rid of them.

 

[wingman1234]

yes try to take out any inverts , shrimps, crabs, snails ects they will die when u use intercepter

 

[jsousa]

Thanks. I was planning on 1 dose a week for 3.

Should I take the inverts out for the entire 3 weeks or can they be put back in after say 24 hours after dose?

 

[GatorWPB]

anyone have a link to the in depth online magazine article on red bugs? If i could remember the name, I could find it on google.
TIA!

 

[Bax]

Yup, you got em

Interceptor!

 

[jsousa]

Dosed last night - 1/2 a tablet of Interceptor into my 180 gallon reef. After 12 hours, I did about a 15% water change, replaced my reactor with fresh carbon, turned my GFO and Ozone back on and added back the crabs and snails that I had removed.

Not seeing any red bugs tonight which is very cool. I'm really hoping it worked. Still wondering if I should do it again next week. I'm really not sure that I got em all and I really don't think it can hurt to use the other half. What do you guys think?

 

[AJDuran]

i would dose again to be sure i had them not too long ago. I did 1 single treatment they were back in like a week. so i did 2 consecutive treatments a week apart the next time they haven't been back since.