The battle has begun

[stlouisguy]

First dosage in for the red bugs, 2 tablets which should treat 760 gallons. Will monitor for the next week and next weekend will up to 3 tables, then right before swap will do another three tablets.

Results will be posted.

 

[chadfarmer]

i throw a whole pill in my 58 you should be fine

 

[stlouisguy]

I would have dosed more, but thats all I had in the house. Stopping by the vets tomorrow

 

[breutus]

on melvreef it say 1 tablet doses 400 gallons, but i guess if it doesn't hurt to does high

 

[stlouisguy]

Total system volumn is about 850-900 gallons, so two tablets is the minimum. Three would be better which will be next week

 

[latazyo]

sock it to em

 

[DrBDC]

When Trottman found some in my tank I did as much reading as I could and it seemed the most complete treatment was 10X the original dose suggested by Dorton which is 1 pill per 38 gallons and for 12 hours.

http://www.ericborneman.com/Tegastes-content/Treatment.html

 

[stlouisguy]

First round going well, Not doing water changes or running carbon at all for 3 days letting it sit. Next saturday will do much higher dosage

Infected coral polyp extension already is improved. Sally lightfoots are gone but the two coral banded still hanging in there wish I could have got them out but no way possible

 

[sirreal63]

I did mine last April...I wanted to preserve the life in the tank so I treated them in batches...into the solution for 12 hours and into the 58 for QT for 9 days. The solution tank was only a 20 so it took a while. It was hard letting the tank sit acro free for a week.

I know it is a little late but I would never treat the whole tank as the life in it is your key to stability. :-(

 

[stlouisguy]

I would agree Jack, but there is no way I can treat just the coral. Some of my acros are covered onto 50 lb pieces or rock, and even if I could get the colony off, there would be no way to get all the encrusting off of all the rock.

 

[sirreal63]

I feel your pain...it took me a long time to do the dip and I had several that I had to dip the whole rock. I can only imagine what it is like with much larger pcs of rock. I plan on always keeping an Interceptor bath at the ready when I get new corals, everything gets a 12 hour treatment and QT for a week at least before it goes in the display. I had to learn the hard way.

You can re-establish the biological base though so there is always a bright side.

 

[Im Lon 2]

What all does the treatment kill?

 

[stlouisguy]

Red bugs, pods, red bugs, crabs, red bugs, shrimp, and little bug that are red

 

[Im Lon 2]

What about Star fish, and Clams

How easy is it to regenerate the Pod life?

 

[stlouisguy]

Star fish and Clams are fine. I figure to get some new cheato at the frag swap and reestablish my pod population