Red Bug treatment Questions

[Crackem]

After almost 2 weeks of trying to catch my other cleaner shrimp with no success I give up. He's to smart for me! Now I need to decide.

Since I already caught one shrimp that is in a small bucket with an air stone and no heater. Do I just temp acclimate him and put him back in and go on as usual? The salinity is exact but the temp is way off. Do I drip acclimate using tank water or just put him in a bag and float it?

Or

Do I follow thru with 3 separate weekly treatments for red bugs with my sentinel.

I've read that some people just leave the red bugs alone. So far I've seen them on most of my smooth skin acros and I think on my green slimer. I'm getting growth, a lot more on some than others and at night I get pretty decent PE. During the day I hardly see any PE.

Thanks for any advice.

 

[scottwhitson]

You are right a lot of people do live with them but I always say what if? What if you didn't Have red bugs? How much better would your growth be, how much better would the color be, polyp extension etc. Nobody has definite answers to these questions so the ultimate decision is up to you to live with them or not.