Dosing for interceptor
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I used 1/4 of a pill (large dog variety, 51-100lbs) to treat a 54.4 gallon system. Two treatments wiped the red bugs out, I read that overdosing a bit causes no harmful effects so I thats why I decided to to dose so heavily. The only ill effects that I experienced were that I lost some hermits and my cleaner shrimp, but those were kind of expected.
I know it's an old thread but I actually have a question maybe you guys can answer for me. Rather than dose the whole tank I'd like to set up a gallon of water with interceptor and dip my corals rather than treat the whole tank. I'm hoping this will aleviate the problem but if it does not I will go ahead with the in tank treatment to treat any of the stragglers.
Allmost
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Reefer74, I have tried that, and they will just come back ... seems like they live off acros at some life stage ...
I was worried to do an in tank treatment for years, and finally came around doing it about a month or so ago ( finally had enough of them after about 2 years) ... Absolutely nothing to worry about, even my shrimp is fine, acro crabs hung on for about 8 hours, but didn't make it .... Make sure to do a large water change after and put new GFO back inline.
I was worried to do an in tank treatment for years, and finally came around doing it about a month or so ago ( finally had enough of them after about 2 years) ... Absolutely nothing to worry about, even my shrimp is fine, acro crabs hung on for about 8 hours, but didn't make it .... Make sure to do a large water change after and put new GFO back inline.
Well after seeing a couple here and there on other acros I decided to go ahead and nuke it....I'm just kind of upset at loosing such a large quantity of copepods as my mandarin is so fat and happy. Soooooo how long after the treatment should I perform the water change? and I take it my skimmer should be cut off during that time as well.
Reefer1225
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I did 3 treatments, 1 each week. Let in run in my system for 6-12 hours. Skimmer off. Did water change after each treatment. Reloaded new carbon after each treatment. Pep. Shrimp, hermit/emerald crab/pods all casualties. Mandarin got skinny, but did learn how to eat mysis & brine 
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MammothReefer
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