Levamisole In-Tank Treatment for AEFW
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Bax
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I have not had a tank crash doing this actually had a invert explosion after
I'd second this.
I've had great rebound of the invert populations. there was a lot of die off. So I think target siphoning is a must.
I do (did) not have any sand bed in my system at the time of the Levi treatment but I have tons of LR.
100 g DT, 75 g frag, 90 g fuge, 100 g sump at time of treatment.
Atomikk
SPS OG
Ok, tonight my QT is getting the Levi treatment. Its really the test run before I treat my huge 320 gallon display. Currently, I have two fish, lots of soft corals, and some SPS (which are still half alive).
pH probe calibrated, just in case there is oxygen depletion. Skimmer and GAC offline. Keeping flow at a maximum rate.
Adding roughly 3.617g of Levi to my 220 gallons of water. Going to have a 5 hour window in allowing it to work on the pests.
Here we go....
pH probe calibrated, just in case there is oxygen depletion. Skimmer and GAC offline. Keeping flow at a maximum rate.
Adding roughly 3.617g of Levi to my 220 gallons of water. Going to have a 5 hour window in allowing it to work on the pests.
Here we go....
clowndude
New member
I just dosed my tank at which I have it figured go be around 135 gallons of total water. I opened the valve to the skimmer all the way so it wouldn't over flow and shut down my cac reactor. Within minutes I started seeing floating flatworms. Sps started pulling in their polyps within 30 minutes or so. Clam started putting out some really nasty stuff. After 5 hours I havent seen any flatworms and it even seems to have killed those little fork tailed flatworms that I couldn't ever get rid of also. I will post a follow-up tomorrow of how the corals look, but so far so good.
clowndude
New member
When I do my weekly water changes I siphon the substrate to keep it clean. One thing I hated about my old tank was that it had that fine sand and I couldn't ever get it clean. When I setup this tank I opt'd for the thinking flooring so I could vacuum the substrate. I believe it helps keeps the tank cleaner by being able to vacuum it also. I plan on doing a water change tomorrow as I'm sure there are quite a bit of dead things for last nights treatment
. I really hope the aefw's days are numbered.
Atomikk
SPS OG
I do not have a sandbed in my quarantine tank.
Now to the results!
I had originally three types of pests in this tank, monti eating flatworms, planaria flatworms, and acro eating flatworms. Out of the three, I could only verify the extermination of the two types through a simple visual examination. These would be the planaria flatworms, and monti eating flatworms.
Now to see if three would be casualties on the AEFW front, I looked for polyps extension in the remaining sps corals. To my happy surprise, they were extremely extended. Which told me that the coral was very happy, and wasn't being bothered by anything that could be on them.
Two of my fish were perfectly fine, while my snails and other corals didn't miss a beat. The pH in the QT dropped only by a little (from 7.8 to 7.6), as due to the respiration of corals/fish.
After starting up the carbon, and attaching the air hose to the skimmer, the Levi was being taken out of the solution.
I can conclude after the first trial that this stuff really works. Bax was correct in being adamant that you are to digitally measure the amount of Levi per your treatment.
Next up, my display tank!
Now to the results!
I had originally three types of pests in this tank, monti eating flatworms, planaria flatworms, and acro eating flatworms. Out of the three, I could only verify the extermination of the two types through a simple visual examination. These would be the planaria flatworms, and monti eating flatworms.
Now to see if three would be casualties on the AEFW front, I looked for polyps extension in the remaining sps corals. To my happy surprise, they were extremely extended. Which told me that the coral was very happy, and wasn't being bothered by anything that could be on them.
Two of my fish were perfectly fine, while my snails and other corals didn't miss a beat. The pH in the QT dropped only by a little (from 7.8 to 7.6), as due to the respiration of corals/fish.
After starting up the carbon, and attaching the air hose to the skimmer, the Levi was being taken out of the solution.
I can conclude after the first trial that this stuff really works. Bax was correct in being adamant that you are to digitally measure the amount of Levi per your treatment.
Next up, my display tank!
Atomikk
SPS OG
Of course. My trials are with the QT first. I am noticing only good things. My polyp extension on the remaining SPS corals is incredible. Polyps are really stretching in the flow. A super sign of nothing bothering the coral.
My display has a 2" floor, that is with a refugium. I am not worried about the consequent death of pods/life as it is documented. Don't forget that when dosing a similar product such as the Interceptor, you do kill most of your pod population (and other micro organisms) within the sandbed. So this product already does what we have been using before.
I was more worried of it paralyzing corals, and having them die.
I am moving onto my display tomorrow. This is super news.
tozzi
New member
Here is the best info on this treatment you can find. I used lev 2 different times on my system and not 1 casualty. Just follow the dosage recommendations and youll b fine.
http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&sour...sg=AFQjCNHWIuweOzCxT6R7eWKxP1DQVTehBw&cad=rja
Here is a good source for it, and a great guy if u have any ?'s
http://www.inkmkr.com/Fish/ItemsForSale.html
http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&sour...sg=AFQjCNHWIuweOzCxT6R7eWKxP1DQVTehBw&cad=rja
Here is a good source for it, and a great guy if u have any ?'s
http://www.inkmkr.com/Fish/ItemsForSale.html
James404
I <3 Acros
I did come across that site as a source while looking but I later read some people went weeks waiting for a response from him. Perhaps it was other issues on their side. Have you ordered from him personally?
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