This is good info, after my dip tonight I have started to get really fed up with these buggers. From most of my research it seems that most people did treatment in a seperate tank, this really isnt an option for me. I may just be giving this a try. The site you listed is out of stock but I think I have found another source.
James
Yes I found the same thing to be true in most of my research. I did find a few reefers who more recently attempted systemic treatment, just like we do with Interceptor for RBs. This got me thinking ...
I had already fragged my colonies to nubs, and placed all SPS in one 75 g frag tank with in my system that I had the ability to isolate. And that was my initial plan for the use of the Levamisole.
However, my research also told me that the eggs could be anywhere with in the Live Rock throughout my system. Even if I isolated the SPS frags in the 75, the remaing 400 plus pounds of LR in my system would be suspect. Why? Beacause there are little patches of acro all over the place! I had a valida table growing off the glass in my fuge at one point!. These f'n bastages grow from less than 1/2mm to 1/2" in a week or two and start breeding! How many SPS meals do they need? My concern was that they don't need much food at all.
I have had enough experience with RBs to know that defeating the motile adult population is bearly half the battle. I know that many reefers have seen success by dipping or using turkey basters and adding certain wrasses. But personally, I do not have any wrasses and do not feel that dipping has worked for me. And the turkey basting thing, the next time I work for years to build a stock of SPS corals worth thousands of dollars ... Well I'm not doing that. Systemic treatment, throughout the egg cycle, has been the only thing to work for me. There are disadvantages and I've pointed out those I am aware of in the above post I copied over to here.
RBs and AEFWs have become an epidemic in our hobby. We need to eradicate them in our systems and be vigilant in dipping, QTing and inspecting all incomming corlas. If we don't, this won't end and other pests will be identified.
If you can't tell, I am fed up with getting dosed with these buggers! I dip like crazy and have for years, and still I've recieved RBs and AEFWs! And from "trusted" sources. Becuase, dipping does absolutely nothing to address eggs on incomming corals. If you dip, clip off the bases, and inspect, you might be OK. Me for expamle, have still been infected after the dip, clip & inspect routine. But if you dip, QT, and dip and inspect, in QT, for 24 days, you will have the greatest chance to be OK.
Point is, you have to take care of your system to avoid these pests in the first place. No one else will!:fish2:
