redbugs at swap

[cali_reef]

Spykes,

Who else did you get corals from? I know I am red bugs free.. Just done two treatments a month ago.

 

[ctxmonitor]

Tom, do me and everyone a big favor, use your macro lens and shoot each sps frag that you got from the swap. the bugs will show up under that magnification easily, it's the best way to check for bugs.

Are you telling me to go to everyone place and take pic of their frag from fragswap.. lol.. I would need a badge from MR to be a MR full time physician. hahah..

Or... :sgrin: :sgrin: You guys/gals could bring me all the frags you got and I take picture of them for you..

But if you mean my frags, that is much easier... I post up some shots of the sps I got..

 

[pecan2phat]

Tom,
Even though people tell me that they are or that they think they are RB free, I quarantine the corals in a 10g tank with interceptor overnight for about 12 hours. Not that I don't trust people but sometimes they don't know it themselves plus the treatment is a PIA with all the water changes. Hence, you saw in my shot of the ORA clams that the two frags and the clams were being treated.

 

[cali_reef]

Tom,
Even though people tell me that they are or that they think they are RB free, I quarantine the corals in a 10g tank with interceptor overnight for about 12 hours. Not that I don't trust people but sometimes they don't know it themselves plus the treatment is a PIA with all the water changes. Hence, you saw in my shot of the ORA clams that the two frags and the clams were being treated.

Except when you get frags from me:lol:. Always use protection....

 

[pecan2phat]

Lol cali,
Your the one who showed me how to quarantine and you are also my interceptor drug pusher!

 

[spykes]

peirce your stuff is super clean.

 

[ctxmonitor]

Super clean...lol

peirce, are you giving your sps a bath month..

 

[cali_reef]

Super clean...lol

peirce, are you giving your sps a bath month..

Almost..

I have been doing people favors by holding their live stock, my bad for thinking they don't have red bugs or a 6 hour QT is good enough..

Not going to happen again.. 20% water change is 120 gallons for me, 1.5 pills each treatment and few water changes after the treatment gets pretty expensive.

 

[spykes]

Almost..

I have been doing people favors by holding their live stock, my bad for thinking they don't have red bugs or a 6 hour QT is good enough..

Not going to happen again.. 20% water change is 120 gallons for me, 1.5 pills each treatment and few water changes after the treatment gets pretty expensive.

somehow i feel kinda lucky my tank is only a 20 gallon. pierce your corals are doing awsome, biggest polyp i've ever seen ever. that tenius and purple stags are fuzzy lol.

 

[cali_reef]

All those for $5-$15 each and I couldn't sell them all .

 

[nanoreefer22]

All those for $5-$15 each and I couldn't sell them all .

If I had more cash I would have raided that tank alot more .

 

[cali_reef]

If I had more cash I would have raided that tank alot more .

Thanks. I will let you know when my JB NY pink mili with blue tips, pink mili, and highliter green milis are ready for frag.

 

[nanoreefer22]

Thanks. I will let you know when my JB NY pink mili with blue tips, pink mili, and highliter green milis are ready for frag.

Thanks Pierce. Can't wait:thanks: again.
-Kris

 

[jhale]

Are you telling me to go to everyone place and take pic of their frag from fragswap.. lol.. I would need a badge from MR to be a MR full time physician. hahah..

Or... :sgrin: :sgrin: You guys/gals could bring me all the frags you got and I take picture of them for you..

But if you mean my frags, that is much easier... I post up some shots of the sps I got..

I mean just the coral you got. but you can come over to my place if you want

 

[NYPDFrogman]

I checked my frags, they all got an inceptor bath for 20 mins than an iodine bath for 15min. since I read this thread I've been checking every nite and havent seen anything. can they been seen with the naked eye? bugs or the eggs?

I got 2 frags from members and one from grab bag
one frag I got from a memebre was alreading in an interceptor bath.

 

[jhale]

you can see the adult bugs, they look like tiny yellow, or red specks.
if you have not seen them before they are way smaller than you think,
they are barley visible to the eye. the best way to spot them is when they are moving, they jump around like fleas. you'll see little yellow spots moving quickly on the sps branches.

 

[NYPDFrogman]

OK corals looked good last nite when I checked.
I'm planning on buying eileen another lens for her digital rebel any recomemdations for a macro lens?

 

[pecan2phat]

It's very difficult to see them with the naked eye. Cali-reef thought me to place a coral that the RBs show up very well on. In my case this would be an A. nana.
The coral is placed or mounted closer to either the front glass panel or side glass panel via your aquascaping and rockwork.
With this, you will be able to place a magnifying glass up against the glass panel and view the coral for RBs. A 99 cents store magnifying glass does well.

 

[ShaunW]

All those for $5-$15 each and I couldn't sell them all .

I wish that I had know, . I didn't even get to meet you.

 

[jhale]

OK corals looked good last nite when I checked.
I'm planning on buying eileen another lens for her digital rebel any recomemdations for a macro lens?

my favorite is the tamron sp 90mm f 2.8, it's around $480.
there are lens that cost less, and more, but this is a great macro lens that can be used for great portraits as well. the 1.4 digital magnification will bump the lens mm up a bit but that's not a bad thing.