Red Bugs!!!

[mflamb]

We had a great discussion about this at the TBRC meeting. I felt like some of the folks thought that I must be nuts to go to the extremes to keep the tank healthy.

 

[Kubi]

lets not forget what is lurking around out there locally!!

 

[ReefArtist]

Hawk'ster - I'm thinking some of us get it and some of us don't !

 

[screamincamaro]

What do you suggest to use for coral dips?

 

[mflamb]

Tropic Marin Pro Coral Cure

 

[Ah64av8tor]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=10639680#post10639680 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by ReefArtist
Hawk'ster - I'm thinking some of us get it and some of us don't ! [/QUOTE

I really don't want to get it.

 

[DaddyJax]

I am quite shocked at the results so far for this poll!!

 

[Ah64av8tor]

Yea .....%50 thats so risky, it makes you not want to trade!

 

[WarDaddy]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=10650230#post10650230 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by DaddyJax
I am quite shocked at the results so far for this poll!!

Look at the question...

"How many treat new SPS for parasites?"

Most people do not have SPS in their tanks, so the majority will answer that they do not treat. People may have one or two frags, SPS bugs are not a big worry in their softie tanks. So the answer is I do not treat sps. That was how I answered. I have 1 SPS frag, got it from what I expect to be a clean tank, so it went it only after acclimation.

I also think that the art of treatment of new additions to tanks is not well communicated or taught to people in the hobby. In fact, most aspects of the hobby are pourly communicated and taught.

Maybe if the questions was asked like this:

Poll: For those of you with SPS dominate systems, what is your treatment routine for new additions to your tank?

include an option for I do not have sps or an sps dominate tank, so those who feel obligated to answer the poll, but do not fit the ture target demographic have an answer.

I think the art of polling is the formation of the question.

 

[Ah64av8tor]

You, know its still %50 that answered "I do not treat or QT at all"

QT is very important for everything you introduce into your system. You can trade for a Softie Not treat or QT because it never been around stonies. and in two weeks loose all your fish to the Ich that came in on the rock it was mounted on.

It just doesn't make sence no matter how you rationalize it.

 

[triggerfish1976]

I don't know Wardaddy. You would be surprised how many people do not treat their corals before they put them in their tanks. If you do a search on RC for Monti eating nudi's or red bugs you will find countless threads where people are asking for help on how to get rid of them. If you compare it to the amount of people who still do not medicate their fish when they first get them then I think it is not unrealistic to assume that the results of the poll thus far are accurate and are actually much more optimistic than I would have guessed.

 

[WarDaddy]

That is what I was trying to say...

I answered I do not treat or QT at all... Because I really do not collect SPS. The question was about SPS, I have it.

Now I do treat all my zoos, sofites, shrooms... maybe I should not have answered, since it really did not apply to me.

The second part is, we need to educate better.

 

[WarDaddy]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=10650778#post10650778 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by triggerfish1976
I don't know Wardaddy. You would be surprised how many people do not treat their corals before they put them in their tanks. If you do a search on RC for Monti eating nudi's or red bugs you will find countless threads where people are asking for help on how to get rid of them. If you compare it to the amount of people who still do not medicate their fish when they first get them then I think it is not unrealistic to assume that the results of the poll thus far are accurate and are actually much more optimistic than I would have guessed.

I think it is more about ignorance and lack of education. People just do not know about all the problems they can get when adding a coral to a tank.

 

[triggerfish1976]

Partly, but I also think it has more to do with impatience and laziness. This hobby has a lot of people in it who are looking for instant gratification and do not want to wait while their new corals sit in QT for a few weeks or they might be just down right lazy and not feel like treating them. I continue to use fish as an example because we have known about their pathogens for years but I would guess that maybe 10% of hobbyists treat their fish properly for these pathogens before placing them into their tanks.

 

[WarDaddy]

I agree...

QT is a tough thing to teach.

It is a whole new system to maintain, find a place to keep, fund....

And then if you are at a point where you can not maintain bio-filters, you are looking at daily water changes. It is not easy to teach people how to QT.

I am as big an offender as the next guy, QT is pain in the butt.

hummmm This may be a nice little thing for the club, I have an idea, probably will not work, but it is an idea.

 

[MikeBrke]

So when you QT SPS frags in a separate tank for 6-8 weeks, do you need to have intense lighting or will minimal lighting get the coral by until the big tank?

Do you guys have halides over your QT tanks?

 

[WarDaddy]

the hard core among us do have Halides for their QT.

 

[mflamb]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=10652108#post10652108 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by MikeBrke
So when you QT SPS frags in a separate tank for 6-8 weeks, do you need to have intense lighting or will minimal lighting get the coral by until the big tank?

Do you guys have halides over your QT tanks?

I'm probably the extreme QT freak. I QT fish for 8 weeks, with a treatment protocol. I QT corals for 4 weeks with a treatment protocol. I have a 75 watt, 6500 k, spiral flourescant flood for fish, and a 250 MH for corals.

 

[Kubi]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=10650677#post10650677 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by WarDaddy
Look at the question...

"How many treat new SPS for parasites?"

Most people do not have SPS in their tanks, so the majority will answer that they do not treat. People may have one or two frags, SPS bugs are not a big worry in their softie tanks. So the answer is I do not treat sps. That was how I answered. I have 1 SPS frag, got it from what I expect to be a clean tank, so it went it only after acclimation.

I also think that the art of treatment of new additions to tanks is not well communicated or taught to people in the hobby. In fact, most aspects of the hobby are pourly communicated and taught.

Maybe if the questions was asked like this:

Poll: For those of you with SPS dominate systems, what is your treatment routine for new additions to your tank?

include an option for I do not have sps or an sps dominate tank, so those who feel obligated to answer the poll, but do not fit the ture target demographic have an answer.

I think the art of polling is the formation of the question.

Either you QT, treat or you don't. It does not get any simpler then that.

 

[WarDaddy]

Nothing simple about QT/Treatments