Red bug Opinoins

[NVfishman]

I have a 700 gallon system water volume

400 gallon main
120 frag
100 frag
150 sumps
50 gallon refugium

I have 50 or more acro crabs
100 or more small to med large acro colonies

OPTION A

Bomb the entire system Kill everything

Option B

Pull all acros put in 120 gallon 8ft tank dip or use interceptor
keep no acros in the main system for 2 weeks

Option C

Pull acros from main tank dip each then put back in the main tank repeat for 3 weeks

thanks ahead of time

 

[drw94]

Nuking the entire system is the only way to kill them. I am dosing interceptor now, and my mind set is 1000's of dollars for corals or 50 to 100 dollars to get new crabs.

 

[NVfishman]

Before I moved a few years back I bombed the tank killed the red bugs and tons of other life in the tank with intercepter.
I have bought 100s of wild and maricultured acros colonies and kept them in qt for a month dipping every week and still red bugs got in. Its to hard to inspect and go through more then a handful of corals at a time.

Really hate to kill acro crabs copepod's and all life in the tank already tried dragonface pipe fish 35 of them pretty much did nothing except slowly died off.

guess I will kick idea around another week hoping for some more imput thanks drw94