Weird things on SPS Frag
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coraladdict111
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Red bugs
magnoliarichj
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ugh!
HumbleLobster
Should be Quarantined
It affects all your smooth skin acros. Melev has a nice write up here: http://www.melevsreef.com/redbugs.html
Nice Pic of Red Bugs. Those little things are typically hard to see and even harder to get clear pictures of!
Don't worry too much. They are easily killed off with intercepter. And you CAN treat the whole tank at once. You might lose your hermit crabs, but everything else should be fine.
Don't worry too much. They are easily killed off with intercepter. And you CAN treat the whole tank at once. You might lose your hermit crabs, but everything else should be fine.
mhosts
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Read it! Great article.
Question though: If it affects only smooth skin acros (I only have 2 1" frags) can I just treat them like Melev did in a bucket and then put them back in the tank?
I guess my question is: Can the red bugs come back somehow? Do they live in the sand or anywhere off the coral at anytime?
mhosts
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The affect more that just "smooth skinned" acros
And the quest begins for "Interceptor"...
thedoctor06
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One of my friends is a vet, and she told me if the necessity were explained to her properly, and provided with supporting documentation for it's use, she'd happily write a perscription for it. She likes killing red bugs as much as she likes killing heartworms :beer:
Paramecium
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I believe the life cycle is five days so if you took out all your acros for a week and treated them theoretically you could get rid of them that way. Easier to treat the whole tank and be certain though.
mhosts
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Thanks! I will try it.
Thing is, I don't know any vets at all! An initial conversation to try to get drugs without even having a Dog will be difficult to pull off!
If only Canada had online retailers like the US...
mhosts
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Ok, that being said... They only affect Acro's right? Don't need to worry about softies or leathers?
Will the "interceptor" have any effect on my RBTA?
mhosts
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Just to give an idea of how small these things actually are.
Here's a full shot of the coral. I have yet to be able to see them with the naked eye. It's kind of scary to think about really... Imagine how many other tanks that can have them without the reefkeeper knowing about it.
The box is where the picture in my last post was taken
Here's a full shot of the coral. I have yet to be able to see them with the naked eye. It's kind of scary to think about really... Imagine how many other tanks that can have them without the reefkeeper knowing about it.
The box is where the picture in my last post was taken
Paramecium
One man wolf pack
There is a good chance any shrimp and hermit crabs will be killed. Some people don't lose the shrimp but it is best to take them out if possible. I lost my cleaner but not my peppermint. Snails don't seem to be affected. They are very hard to see as well, I only noticed them in my tank because they were on a Pearlberry and I saw them on the whiter areas.
