what inverts will intercepter kill?

jarrett shark

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i am about to dose and i read that some people lose alot of diffrent inverts
I am more worried about my clams and shrimp. the shrimp are impossible to get out unless of a tank breakdown.

So tell me your good and bad story's

also is treating 2 times enough to kill them
 
i have heard that your clams and shrimp could be in danger . i have used it a couple of times and never had a problem or loss .i have hermits ,nassarius snails .coral banded shrimp ,cleaner shrimps and a few others and have never lost anything . also i have triple dosed in this tank as i was instructed it wouldn't hurt any livestock and i didn't lose a thing . three times is my rule that i have learned to use to eradicate critters .
 
wow lost nothing and you overdosed.. I have 220 with about another 60gal frag tank and fuge and thinking of a little less then 1 tablet. what did you do after you dosed it in your tank? doi i shut off skimmer? do i do water change 6 hrs later?
 
jarett,

I've treated several times in my tank. Shut down gfo/carbon reactor if you run one.
Leave the skimmer on.

24 hours later turn gfo/carbon reactor back on.

repeat a week after. I never went for 3rd treatment.

First time I did two 20% water changes after each treatment.

Second time I did no water changes after both treatments.
No difference.

I didn't have any shrimp in my tank. My Hawkfish developed a taste for them so I stopped putting them in the tank.
I tried to remove all hermits prior to treatment. Missed a few and surprisingly I found several alive.

BTW, your clam survived both treatments with no issues.
 
I just completed a 12H treatment (300mg in right around 85 total gallons..that's about 100mg more than recommended). I pulled out my snails, crabs and clam for no reason.

There were a few inverts I missed and I was not able to net my cleaner shrimp, they all lived and seem to be doing fine.

Ray
 
They may survive the first treatment. Good luck on the second and third. Do not place the crab back in the tank until you're done. Clams and snails are not susceptible.
 
Interceptor kills arthropods (crabs and shrimp) and nematodes (roundworms, probably none that you notice in your tank). It doesn't harm anything else if dosed correctly.
 
Interceptor kills arthropods (crabs and shrimp) and nematodes (roundworms, probably none that you notice in your tank). It doesn't harm anything else if dosed correctly.

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I have a large clam that was fine with an overdose along with snails and stars.
 
I too overdosed and the only thing to perish were my hermit crabs, which I hated anyways for killing off my snails. But yea I didn't lose any snails, shrimps or clams.
 
My fire shrimp was walking around like he was completely drunk when I treated with interceptor... thats how I caught him. I would def remove and crabs and shrimp that you want to keep. Crabs and Shrimp might make it threw treatment but its just cruel. If you dont kill any crabs and shrimp during treatment what makes you think the red bugs died? You dont have to overdose persay but if your shrimp and crabs made it through treatment you probably underdosed the treatment.
 
It doesn't take nearly as large of a dose to kill red bugs as it would a shrimp, but agreed that you should try and remove them if possible. Likely it won't be possible and you'll have to just cross your fingers that they all make it through. Personally I would just dose the tank and hope for the best, there is no way I could catch my shrimp without taking everything out of the tank.
 
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I just dosed my tank an hour ago. I have a few hermits, an emerald crab and 2 cleaner shrimp. No way i was going to be able to catch them. The 2 shrimp have survived my previous round of dosing, whereas the redbugs did not, that was over a year ago.
 
I doubled the dose and did a 20% water change after 12 hours. Added my critters about 1 hours after the water change. All my hermits died as did a blood shrimp who i could not catch.
 
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