red bugs...

[emtiee]

ok guys i really need your help on this one. I recently noticed that a few of my corals have red bugs on them. I've never used interceptor before. I was wondering how i could get some and how i would use it on my tank. I have a lot of snails, crabs, and a pistol shrimp that im worried about. Can i just move all the sps corals to a seperate tank and use the interceptor or are the red bugs in the rocks n stuff too? anyone out there can get me interceptor? I'd appreciate any help. Thanks guys.

Matthew

 

[GTR]

Matthew
Treating the corals outside the display will only kill those on the corals and their bases. It will help as a temporary measure but they will return. When you treat your display you can pretty much kiss all your crabs and most shrimp goodbye.
I've seen some crabs dead in <5 mins while others die the next day.

SteveU

 

[emtiee]

thanks for the info steve....does anyone have interceptor i can buy off them? How do you guys dose it? Thanks.

Matthew

 

[mnguyen878]

Frank at Tropoasis matt, he has a storefront in LA somewhere i think

 

[ichthyojason]

Probably a stupid question, as I'm pretty sure I know the answer is no, but will ask anyways to be sure. The "red bugs" are not red planaria right? Are they some type of isopod?

 

[fish_who?]

I have a few interceptor pills, but live in Corona.
I have treated my tank a few times and never lost my pistol shrimp. All my hermits were dead the next day, but the pistol hung on.

PM me if you want some.

Jim

 

[bennyinca]

Matthew, check out this link, from Eric Borneman.
http://www.ericborneman.com/Tegastes-content/Treatment.html

Awhile back, I did the treatment as he suggested, except that I let it go for 8 days. During that time the SPS treatment tank had a 150MH light on it. And since this was an isolated tank, I used a much stonger dosage of the interceptor.

So far so good, there is no reoccurence of the red bugs.