Have you got some frags from me???

[gflat65]

I believe the current belief is a single dose kills them all (no eggs on red bugs), but I'd still do the three just to make sure you got them all. Those sound particularly devestating. Mine just munched on my Paletta blue acro (and many others, I'm sure-juts spotted them on it after the meeting at John's house where his Paletta was beautiful...made me start to wonder). They had the tissue almost transparent in a few spots, but weren't actively killing it. I hope this gets them for you. You don't need to worry about the snails-leave them in there. If you are going to multiple treatments, just let the crabs chill somewhere else during the treatments.

 

[gflat65]

BTW, I wish I was only dealing with red bugs. You'll find that of the nasties out there, they are one of the easier ones, though you might see something unwanted pop up in the tank. When I treated (and this may have been compoletely coincidence, but...), I got a bryopsis outbreak that never really went away following the RB treatment. The only thing that makes sense to me is that the Interceptor killed something good that was eating my algae or something. It didn't kill all of my pods, though. My mandarin stayed fat and happy through the entire process.

 

[Angela Short]

Well, I dumped it in about 5 tonight and bugs were activly dieing not to long after. I tried for about a hour to catch the shrimp with a frozen food laced net with no luck. My cleaners are very scary and hardley ever out in the open unlike others I have had. So I guess I will be needing some new shrimp and emeralds soon. I just doesed 1 whole pill so its not much over the recomended dose. I will give a report in the morning but so far everything looks fine and I know my few remeining SPS are breathing easier not to mention my very stressed frogspawn!

 

[phudeb]

Angela, I don't know if it's coincident or not but in the last fews days the frogspawn I got from you shriveled up. I was looking tonight and saw alots of bugs crawling around. They are white and fast. I was thinking they are pods but don't know. Is this what you have?

 

[crumbletop]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=9769261#post9769261 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by rsteagall
Sounds like interceptor should be one of those things that the club should invest in for cases like this where we need it now... but can't get it without jumping through some hoops.

Crumbletop... what do you think about this? Possible some of those club funds can be spent on a small stock pile of this and maybe some other medicine? Just an idea for the future.

Sorry, I hadn't been reading the thread since I don't have any corals from Angela. I think there could be some issues with the club getting this because it is a controlled substance.

 

[Angela Short]

I can pick up as much as anyone wants to keep on hand for dipps when I go home next month. My box expires in 4/09 so its good for 2 years. Everyone should dip before putting anything in there tank even if you "think" the person don't have anything because I "thought" I didn't .

Phu, Like we talked in PMs, I would go ahead and dose the tank because I feel its the same bug as a red bug just white looking on frogspawn. It looks exactly like the red ones and moves just like them so if they are on the frog, I bet they are on other things. My frogspawn looks 100% better today and my SPS actually have polyps today. The frogspawn is about 80% to its full fluffyness from looking all shriveled up like it was almost dead last night before the treatment. Funny how fast it is rebounding. I netted my shrimp out no problem at about the 5th hour in the treatment. They were very lethargic but seem just fine today after I put them in the 55 QT. Time will tell on them but they seem totally fine. The fish had a feeding frenzy last night about the 6th hour when all the pods were giving up the gost. A big fat pod would let go and just start floating in the current and the fish gobbled them up right away. Hated to kill off all my pods but they are easily replaced from reed mariculture for the benifite of being bug free. I also left the meds in a full 13 hours and did my water change and turned on the skimmer and carbon this morning at 6AM. Spagetti worms, snails I left, cukes and everything else looks great so it doesn't seem to be a bad treatment at all on the reef. Besides its been used for 7 years now and been tested a lot.

Anyways LMK if anyone needs some pills.