Znut Reefer
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Also just curious how is everyones lps recovering??
Help Chalices are Melting Away.
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JOSE CASAS
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Can we get a update fellows?
Znut Reefer
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Great! thats good news Ktar. 
How many times did you treat with Interceptor?
How many times did you treat with Interceptor?
JOSE CASAS
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awesome!!!!! Give us the details!! Has anyone else have had the same results?
but i'm still looking very closely
The_Browns
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We are havig the same problem. We almost lost a Rainbow Acan Colony, Ended up giving it to a friend to care for and its starting to bounce back. Also just got a Stellar Chalice and Fruit Punch Lords and its happening again, Just melting away. I will post pic of what the corals looked like when I got them and what they look like now tonight. I will be doing and inceptor treatment tonight also.
JUICE!
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OK.....this may or may not be the answer to the big question. My bowerbanki colony started melting away about the same time I came across this thread. I also took an acan that was infected in the browns tank that was doing bad.
I iodine dipped his rainbow acan, but it was so beat up that I didn't want to put it through the stress of QT (it was a REALLY nice acan)
since then, his piece is doing much better, and my bowerbanki started dying off. It seemed to be stemming from a millipora sting, but entire polyps starting dying.
I took it out a few minutes ago, and did a interceptor and tank water bath in my extra coral QT tank, and while observing it....little black specks started coming out of the ribs in thhe fresh white skeleton.
in the pictures you can see the black specs which were not visible before and definitely moving around on their own! there is one long skinny one that can be seen better in the pictures, but I don't know if it's the same as the color isn't as dark.
whatever they are.....they started running when I added the interceptor, and the black speck definately came out of the freshly exposed skeleton.
My tank params are perfect and everything in the tank is doing great except for this coral.
this coral was right next to the piece that I got from the Browns.
like I said....I'm not sure if the larger browner one is the same thing, or just a random pod that was on the colony.....but the little black specks are the little guys!
Hopefully the interceptor bath will kill them and the rest of the coral will not be affected!
Did the interceptor treatment work for everyone else's tanks that were affected? anyone else see little black specks?
I iodine dipped his rainbow acan, but it was so beat up that I didn't want to put it through the stress of QT (it was a REALLY nice acan)
since then, his piece is doing much better, and my bowerbanki started dying off. It seemed to be stemming from a millipora sting, but entire polyps starting dying.
I took it out a few minutes ago, and did a interceptor and tank water bath in my extra coral QT tank, and while observing it....little black specks started coming out of the ribs in thhe fresh white skeleton.
in the pictures you can see the black specs which were not visible before and definitely moving around on their own! there is one long skinny one that can be seen better in the pictures, but I don't know if it's the same as the color isn't as dark.
whatever they are.....they started running when I added the interceptor, and the black speck definately came out of the freshly exposed skeleton.
My tank params are perfect and everything in the tank is doing great except for this coral.
this coral was right next to the piece that I got from the Browns.
like I said....I'm not sure if the larger browner one is the same thing, or just a random pod that was on the colony.....but the little black specks are the little guys!
Hopefully the interceptor bath will kill them and the rest of the coral will not be affected!
Did the interceptor treatment work for everyone else's tanks that were affected? anyone else see little black specks?
ReefMonger
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Those are great pics Juice and great observation on the black specks. I never did a dip to really see it
Well Im glad I tried the interceptor treatment to hopefully save all of you alot of heartache
Well Im glad I tried the interceptor treatment to hopefully save all of you alot of heartache
JUICE!
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I'm pretty sure they came from the acan frag I got from the browns. I haven't added anything new to the tank for a good while.
It looked pretty much like a SPS RTNing, only in slow motion! Initially I had a piece of millipora sting the center of a polyp and the mouth died........then all of the sudden surrounding polyps starting dying...you can see a little of that white crap in the pictures. i THINK THE MILLIE BURN WAS COINCIDENTAL
it was pretty slow.......the center of the polyp died first and eventually the skin would seperate from the skeleton. It would seem that these bugs were eating them from the inside out.
Hopefully the interceptor bath works. I have more at the ready in case other corals seem to be affected, but so far it seems confined to the one coral.
I'm glad you tried it too! it would seem that you've saved some folks a bunch of money!
I wish I had a microscope at home! I'd like to see what the little bastards look like up close!
It looked pretty much like a SPS RTNing, only in slow motion! Initially I had a piece of millipora sting the center of a polyp and the mouth died........then all of the sudden surrounding polyps starting dying...you can see a little of that white crap in the pictures. i THINK THE MILLIE BURN WAS COINCIDENTAL
it was pretty slow.......the center of the polyp died first and eventually the skin would seperate from the skeleton. It would seem that these bugs were eating them from the inside out.
Hopefully the interceptor bath works. I have more at the ready in case other corals seem to be affected, but so far it seems confined to the one coral.
I'm glad you tried it too! it would seem that you've saved some folks a bunch of money!
I wish I had a microscope at home! I'd like to see what the little bastards look like up close!
Underwaterparadise
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Hmmm very interesting thread. I have a colony that is receeding as well and I think I have some Interceptor as well. How much Interceptor is everyone using for a dip??
The_Browns
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Some pics of when I first put the corals in my time to today.
When I first put them in the tank:
Fruit Punch Lords
Stellar Chalice
Today:
Fruit Punch Lords
Stellar Chalice
I am about to treat the tank with Interceptor so I will keep everyone posted.
When I first put them in the tank:
Fruit Punch Lords
Stellar Chalice
Today:
Fruit Punch Lords
Stellar Chalice
I am about to treat the tank with Interceptor so I will keep everyone posted.
The_Browns
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Double POst
roktsintst
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juice how much interceptor did you use. i just looked closly at my chalices that arn[t doing well and i could see very small black bugs running around. they are only on the chalices that arn't doing good and i want to see if the interceptor will kill them and if indeed they are the problem so i want to do a separate treatment!
The_Browns
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80-81 always, No temp swings
The_Browns
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They are under 250W MH x 2 14k
JUICE!
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To treat a full tank I use the 23mg tab(large dog flavor tab) for 300 gal of system volume. I've read that the large dog pill is good for 380G.
I bathed a lot of the LPS that wasn't hammered down, last night, hoping that I won't have to treat the whole tank......we'll see. For the bath, I used 1/2 a large dog tab in my 5 gallon QT, and two of the 11mg tabs in my 10 gallon QT, and bathed them for approximately 6 hours. they are shallow acrylic QT tanks that my friend makes locally. they are perfect for dipping and QTing corals!
anyhow......after the interceptor bath, I dipped with tropic marin for 30-45 minutes
I hope there aren't a million eggs laying around that will hatch in a few weeks.
When I got home from work yesterday I saw the white fuzzy crap going through a couple polyps of a micromussa frag........if I see it affect anything else, I'll treat the whole tank.......but there's no way I'll be able to catch the shrimp! I don't want to kill them unless I have to!
I bathed a lot of the LPS that wasn't hammered down, last night, hoping that I won't have to treat the whole tank......we'll see. For the bath, I used 1/2 a large dog tab in my 5 gallon QT, and two of the 11mg tabs in my 10 gallon QT, and bathed them for approximately 6 hours. they are shallow acrylic QT tanks that my friend makes locally. they are perfect for dipping and QTing corals!
anyhow......after the interceptor bath, I dipped with tropic marin for 30-45 minutes
I hope there aren't a million eggs laying around that will hatch in a few weeks.
When I got home from work yesterday I saw the white fuzzy crap going through a couple polyps of a micromussa frag........if I see it affect anything else, I'll treat the whole tank.......but there's no way I'll be able to catch the shrimp! I don't want to kill them unless I have to!
