I have redbugs

[McCrary]

I should be cured of my red bugs, I used 4 tabs of interceptor within 6 hours. Bad news- my cleaner shrimp did not survive. Good news- I can't see any red bugs and there were copepods and mysis floating in my water, so hopefully I will never have to deal with this plague again. Oh, no SPS or fish were affected, all hermits are dead.

 

[McCrary]

I also began running rowacarbon this morning and I am going to do a 25 gallon water change in a couple days to make sure everything is nice and clean.

 

[coraldaddy]

Are you going to due weekly treatments? I would do 1 a week till the cycle passes.

 

[rigleautomotive]

matt,that is good news.i am surprised the normal dosage was not enough for your system.i have heard of using double the dosage as being safe but not required.also from what i have been reading on the treatment,going with 12 hours instead of 6 also helps.anyway i am glad to hear they are gone.your corals will look better than ever in a couple weeks.

 

[McCrary]

Well, I did the normal dosage and it didn't seem to help much, there were still lots of red bugs on the heavily infected stag. Today there is nothing, absolutely not a single sign of a red bug. I did the very heavy dosage because the doses previously didn't seem to affect anything other than copepods and hermits and such. Such I figured a "Shock and Awe" type of tactic might work well on the SOB's. I did a 25 gallon water change yesterday before the treatment to ensure optimum water quality and I am going to do another one, most likely on Sunday so I can see the colors start to bounce back. I am already seeing better polyp extension on the stag. Another reason that I decided to go so aggressive was that small areas of the stag colony were starting to bleach and its normally good growth had stopped completely. I will continue to update this thread in the next couple weeks.

 

[McCrary]

I did another water change on Sunday, it was around 15 gallons and I don't think it needed to be done, but I did it just the same. The fish and coral don't seem to be affected from the massive dose of Interceptor, so thats good. I can't see any red bugs, which is good news and the stag has repaired the small bleached portion for the most part, also good news. Color and polyp extension seem a little better, but that might be from the 40 gallons of water change in the last week (or maybe I'm just trying to see it). Anyway, looks like I might be out of the woods. YAY!!!