SPS PREADATORS Red bugs, AEFW's ,Monti nudis and Sea spiders. Pictures Inside

[REEFRHEAD]

they r one a real nice dark teal acro and purple tips a smooth skinned acro of course. well i hope ill be ok thye r little small white bugs but i hope they arnt bugs so i guess if they were bugs its too late for my tank a sof now ill deal with it later

 

[scolymia]

Here's more Monti's nudi pics:

http://www.e-coralia.com/panel/showthread.php?t=1205

 

[Chelsey]

 

[cjc_cali]

Anyone ever see or hear about monti nudibranchs feeding on acros?
I got rid of all the montis in my tank, not happy, in the hope that I could starve the frilly lil demons to death. But a week later and all the remains of montis bleached and dead, they are starting to go at the base of my tri-color acro.
I thought these guys were coral specific predators...

 

[speckled trout]

Chelsey,

Couldn't you get a little closer pic of the nudis?































I hate those terds! Six-line wrasses love 'em, though.

By the way, good pic, just messin with ya'-Mike

 

[hawk66]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=9161025#post9161025 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by mako56
Hope I am in the right place I found these in one of my acros.

And I have a problem with another the skin is coming off do you cut away the affected parts and hope it stops?

Did you ever find out what the green coil thing is? I just found one on a acro after a lugols inspection dip.

 

[imnata]

Here are pictures of black bugs? on my Montiporas.
Black bugs were mentioned a couple of times in this thread, but I think that nobody has posted a picture of them.
Does anybody know how to get rid of them.

Pics:

 

[melev]

You might try treating the one coral in a small amount of tank water (2g in a clean container) using one fifth of a pulverized tablet of Interceptor, a small powerhead for circulation and see if they die after a 2 hour dip. Once the time has elapsed, pour out the medicated water and refill the container with 2g of tank water and let that coral revive in circulated water for another hour. Study the coral closely, turkey baste it off to blow off the bugs if they seem to be clinging to it. They'll blow off easily if dead. Check to see if any survived.

And let us know.

 

[imnata]

I allready tried a freshwater dip (few minutes) on all of my montiporas (except one or two that cannot be removed from the tank) and it kind of worked.... well at least until new bugs that are in the tank (I suppose) came crawling back on them.
Maybe I should do a periodical FW dip?

Since I'm from Europe, does anybody know under which name is Interceptor known/sold here?

 

[melev]

Scroll up to see the picture. The active ingredient is readily visible in the picture.

 

[highquality]

imnata: If you only dip the monti almost certainly they will be bacik in no time. Especially if you left one monti in there. I have had multiple reports of people using intercptor to kill the blackbugs and having good success. In fact I started a thread in the SPS forum. Anyway I will start treatment tomrrow night and let you no how it goes.

 

[highquality]

maybe you could look into purchasing inteceptor through an canadian online store. do a search. if I can remember Ill get you the name of one. canadian pharmacy.com or canadian meds.com... something like that but not sure.
even though your in europe, your vet should be able to help I would think. good luck

 

[SoundsFishy2me2]

Here's a link that might be of some help.

http://www.petmedstore.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?page=petmedstore/CTGY/INTCEP

The 51-100lb 6pk. for about $35 is what I've seen (1/4 tab crushed per 90-100g, 1/2 tab per 180, 1 tab=300 ) but you might want to ask others what amounts others used and how best to apply for your situation.

"They DO require a prescription; however, they will call you to discuss shortly after making your online order. Therefore, make sure you provide a working phone number to them and one that you will be around throughout the day. Just explain what it is for,
May be on a per-person-you-talk-to-basis though".

Good luck!

Here's what it looks like:

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[imnata]

On the last pic I see that it's from Novartis, they took-over or merged with one of our pharmaceutical companies so I guess I should be able to find it here as well.
Anyway thaks for the help, the link might still turn out to be usefull.

 

[highquality]

I just did a test treatment . i filled a 30 breeder up halfway and put a monti capricornis that had a good amount of blackbugs on it in. I crushed up a pill and devided it by eye. I used a razor blade and used 1/24 of a pillfor 16 or so gallons. Then to simulate adding more than I wanted I added another half of a 1/24 . I went to bed and 7 or 8 hours later I cannot find any blackbugs on the monti. I found some attached to slime stuck to eggcrate but none on coral. All appeared to be dead.

 

[highquality]

Has any one noticed loss of color or loss of growth from one tre4atment of interceptor in your corals?

 

[melev]

No, but after treating the coral, I swapped out the medicated water with tank water and let it circulate for another hour or more.

Perhaps the temperature in your test bucket dropped during those seven hours?

 

[highquality]

every thing went ok in the test, but I didnt treat my really colorfull corals. just a couple bland ones. Im now thinking of treating the whole reef tank, but Im curious about as a whole did anyone notice any colorloss while treating your whole reef, live rock and all?

 

[highquality]

I have blackbugs on montis so Im not certain of how long they can go with out a host or if montiporas are the only host or just the preferred host. Im worried if I take out montis and treat. Then keep them out of tank for 5 days, will that even work since we dont know as much about them.
I figure I should treat whole tank.

 

[bayislandsreef]

so is your grammar: " skills is?"

so is your grammar: " skills is?"

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=7911799#post7911799 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by danielboun
I would post my pictures of the bugs, but my camera skills is too embarassing to post.