Who else noticed this with interceptor?

[kevensquint]

I heard that along with the Red-bugs Interceptor also kills crabs, pods and shrimp. I way over dosed in my tank and all of the scarlet hermits lived...and all of the blue- legged hermits died. In a friends tank, he dosed the proper amount and all of his shrimps lived (cleaner and fire) his blue-legged hermits also died. In both cases the Red-bugs are gone..at least for now. Just wondering what was affected besides the red-bugs themselves in your tank?

 

[DocReefer]

wow i hope you're never my pharmacist.

 

[jsweir]

pods, shrimp, crabs - they all were toast...

 

[tangwang]

Same here. All crabs, shrimp, pods-- except for a large Electric Blue Hermit....



Matt

 

[thrlride]

I was able to get my shrimp and crabs out except for one. He died. Pods died too.

 

[GreshamH]

cleaner shrimp lived, but is "stuck on stupid" now All pods died.

 

[Ludwigia73]

Cleaner shrimp died the 3rd time I had to treat. I did alot of trading and got them 3 times. 1st time I treated 3 doses 2 weeks apart, 2nd time was a month later so I hit it hard, double dose once, and 3rd time was 2 doses 2 weeks apart regular. Haven't had them since (stopped trading pretty much).
1st time I lost a few blue legs on each dose and one of my emerald crabs, and all mysid and some pods. Cleaner, blood shrimp, and other emerald all made it fine. No effects on clams or oysters.
2nd time I lost the other emerald and cleaner.
3rd time I lost mostly pods.
I don't want to have to treat again. I'm actually selling alot of smaller colonies to make room for growth. I'm getting out of the tons of corals phase, going for the 6-10 gorgeous colonies look.

 

[icu2]

I QT'd the acros and treated them w/ interceptor and waited 5 day for the life cycle to run out for any un-attached bugs. Lost all crustaceans in QT tank (a few pods that followed rock/corals). Put corals back in tank- no bugs and still have all other crustaceans.
Corals are doing better than ever!
Worked well for me.

 

[TA]

Pods are toast...few survive.

Cleaner shrimps (2) survived a total of 5 treatments (recommended dose).

Peppermints: 1 died after 1st treatment, another after the 2nd, and a third survived though 5 treatments.

Sallylightfoot- toast after 1st

Hitch-hiking mastis (tick-tick) - never seen him, but the tick lives on. :mad2:

 

[Sullivmw]

After 3 treatments,

Died :
Pods (Most)
Blue leg hermits (all)
Red bugs (all)

Lived:
Emerald crabs (all 3)
Pepermint shrimps (all 5)
Scarlet hermit
Manits
Pistol shrimp

 

[pk1]

I dosed in QT, the stuff stunned my bristleworms out of the LR that the Acro's where attached too, that surprised me. When I transferred my acro's back to the main tank, whatever small amout of interceptor that made it to the display was enough to stun ALL my hermits for a full day, some a few days, they just sat motionless on the sand. Powerfull stuff I tell ya!

PK

 

[kevensquint]

Interesting to see taht all experiences are similar but not identicle. In the end it would seem that the more the crustaceans are exposed to it, the higher the chance that they will die. If I have to treat again, I won't chance it, I'll again remove all the shrimps and hermits that i can catch.

 

[kevensquint]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=7202521#post7202521 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by DocReefer
wow i hope you're never my pharmacist.

I don't sell drugs, I make 'em. And I usually make them 10x stronger than I'm supossed to.

 

[iCam]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=7206492#post7206492 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by TA
Hitch-hiking mastis (tick-tick) - never seen him, but the tick lives on. :mad2:

:lol:

 

[SVXH6]

will interceptor harm anemones??

 

[pk1]

will interceptor harm anemones??

Nope

PK

 

[undertai]

the first treatment everything lived sally lightfoot and blue legs. Second treatment sally died thats it.

 

[shelburn61]

Interceptor works because it interferes with the red bugs' ability to produce chitin (the hard stuff in shrimp, crab, cockroaches, etc. shells). anything with chitin has a problem. I did notice the tiny snails in my sandbed have declined though?