Dipping Dilemma

[Anonymous]

So I'm currently 5 hours into the treatment
I'm all set to crank on the skimmer, do a water change,and run the carbon in an hour. Is 6 hours still the magic number? Is there anything to be gained by waiting longer?

 

[Anonymous]

Six is the magic number.

 

[Anonymous]

OK
By looking into my tank I can't tell that anything is different. I don't know what I expected, but I can't tell I poured dog heartworm medicine into my tank earlier today. Thats good I guess.

 

[Anonymous]

Well, I just saw the lone cleaner shrimp that I was unable to catch.
He looks great and doesn't even seem to be bothered.

On the one hand, I think this is great as I was really, irrationally, upset about having to treat the tank with him in there... I've been pretty down all day.
But on the other hand, I feel like maybe I didn't do it right.

I hope he can hang on for another 40 minutes... and I hope that all the red bugs are dead

 

[Anonymous]

With the small infestation it will be hard to tell.

 

[Anonymous]

You should be able to tell. At about 4 hours in to the treatment I saw the red bugs letting go. I had one coral that had it bad.

 

[Anonymous]

I had hardly any bugs to begin with. The most I had ever seen in one day was 3 on my tort, and I never saw any on any other coral. I'll do a closer inspection today when my lights come on.

 

[Anonymous]

Lucky you. I have noticed a marked improvement in the colors of my corals since the first treatment several weeks ago. The one that was significatly infested was all brown, now the polyps are back to green and the tips are purple. The coral was all purple with green polyps when I first got it. My slimer was really pale and now it is back to bright green.

 

[Anonymous]

That was what got me to start looking seriously into treatment. I had seen very few bugs, but my tort had been looking drab and washed out. About a week ago I noticed a little spot of tissue loss under one of the branches and that really concerned me.
My tort is right next to my slimer and I never saw any on the slimer. I think my wrasse was eating them when he could see them.

Waz, what coral do you have that is purple with green polyps? A local reefer gave me a frag of a wild A. subulata that was a drab army green when I got it, but the new growth is a dark purple with tiny neon-green polyps. I hope it holds this color.

 

[Anonymous]

Don't know the name. It grows table like. Here is is when I first got it.

 

[Anonymous]

Nice! Definitely an A. something-or-other