Red Bug treatment
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Tomoko Schum
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Good luck, Harry. I am sure that it will be successful.
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Tomoko Schum
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Hey, I like your hat!
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H@rry
In Memoriam
Update
Update
1 hr. - Just as many bugs as before but I didn't see any moving.
2 1/2 hr. - Over half of the bugs are gone. A few of the remaining are suspended from the coral by a "thread" or "web"
3 1/2 hr. - Can still see a few bugs left, maybe 5%
4 1/2 hr. - Cannot find any bugs.
7 hrs. - 50 gallon water change and bag of carbon in the sump.
Thoughout the whole process none of the livestock (corals, fish, starfish, and snails) displayed any abnormal behavior. I did the water change by using a siphon hose and replaced the water by pouring the buckets in the sump with the return pump running. Some of the corals were exposed to air for < 10 minutes. The return pump kicked up a lot of bubbles until the water level came up and those bubbles stuck to the slime that must have been produced by the coral being out of the water so they had slime strings coming off of them. I was concerned that my replacement water might cool the tank off too much as it was only about 65* - 69*. The tank temp was 81.7* before the water change and 78.8* after so I was happy about that.
To sum up, I am pleased with the results so far. I plan to do the identical procedure in one week. As Mary Ruth said, it wasn't nearly as bad as worrying about doing it to start with.
Now, in the morning I will start making water to do the same thing to the 225 on Wednesday.
Update
1 hr. - Just as many bugs as before but I didn't see any moving.
2 1/2 hr. - Over half of the bugs are gone. A few of the remaining are suspended from the coral by a "thread" or "web"
3 1/2 hr. - Can still see a few bugs left, maybe 5%
4 1/2 hr. - Cannot find any bugs.
7 hrs. - 50 gallon water change and bag of carbon in the sump.
Thoughout the whole process none of the livestock (corals, fish, starfish, and snails) displayed any abnormal behavior. I did the water change by using a siphon hose and replaced the water by pouring the buckets in the sump with the return pump running. Some of the corals were exposed to air for < 10 minutes. The return pump kicked up a lot of bubbles until the water level came up and those bubbles stuck to the slime that must have been produced by the coral being out of the water so they had slime strings coming off of them. I was concerned that my replacement water might cool the tank off too much as it was only about 65* - 69*. The tank temp was 81.7* before the water change and 78.8* after so I was happy about that.
To sum up, I am pleased with the results so far. I plan to do the identical procedure in one week. As Mary Ruth said, it wasn't nearly as bad as worrying about doing it to start with.
Now, in the morning I will start making water to do the same thing to the 225 on Wednesday.
Good luck!
H@rry
In Memoriam
Hey, it's not that bad. In your case, get 10 gallons of water ready, dump the drug in your sump, and change the water and drop in a bag of charcoal 7 hours later.
What adverse effects have you noticed in a year?
I didn't know I had them until Tomoko called my attention to it a month ago. I don't know where they came from so I don't know how long I've had them. Unless they could have come with the water that fish were bagged in, I have had them either 6 or 18 months. The only problem I can think of is that I don't think some of the coral have the polyp extension that they should. We'll see now.
What adverse effects have you noticed in a year?
I didn't know I had them until Tomoko called my attention to it a month ago. I don't know where they came from so I don't know how long I've had them. Unless they could have come with the water that fish were bagged in, I have had them either 6 or 18 months. The only problem I can think of is that I don't think some of the coral have the polyp extension that they should. We'll see now.
Mariner
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I first noticed mine after the Nashville frag swap last year, if memory serves. I haven't shared any frags out of this tank since. I did try using Reef Dip on all the acros in the 40, moving them to my 75g for 2 weeks, and then dipping and going back to the 40 again. The RB's were back in two weeks
(I should add that my 75 has no acros in it on a regular basis -- so RB's aren't proliferating there).My 40g has had so many problems over the last year, I don't know what to attribute to the RB's. I had a gooey bacterial bloom for months that I finally traced to the vinegar I was mixing with my Kalkwasser. I also let Magnesium get too low, and Calcium and Alkalinity followed. But with all of that, I haven't actually lost any acros. Their color isn't good, they look pale and there is little growth or polyp extension, but they're still kicking. As an example, the acro-milli stag I got from you last year has lost it's blue tips and is a lighter color brown. Again, I don't know how much of that is caused by the RB's
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