Red Bug Help!!!

[Jdubbs]

One of my SPS frags lost all its color and I just noticed a bunch of red dots on it.. assuming as much there is some on another frag I just noticed.. How do I treat it? I have seen the word interceptor tossed around.. I have no fish since they all died of ich.. so I have been running fallow for 5 weeks. 4 shrimp, and some blue hermits and an emerald crab.. acans, lps, clams, ect..

What can I do?! Between the ich, the green bubble algae, and now this i swear I think I'm cursed.. :irked:

 

[prattreef]

Relax. It is a simple and benign treatment protocol, but your shrimps won't be happy and your hermits are likely toast.

http://www.melevsreef.com/redbugs.html

 

[finksmart]

Just take out the piece that's infected and treat it outside the DT like Melev. Make sure to rinse before putting it back though.

 

[prattreef]

If there is more than one acro, you need to treat all of them.

 

[NYreefNoob]

taking it out and treating just it isnt going to solve the problem you need to treat the whole tank, other then being a pita it isnt hard to do

 

[nanoreefer22]

Yea treat the whole tank

 

[Jdubbs]

ok talked to my client thats a vet, got interceptor tomorrow. Does the medication hurt clams, acans or anything else besides crabs and shrimp? if I cant physically get them out are they done for indefinetly?

 

[nanoreefer22]

Sometimes they survive. My hermits crapped out, but for some reason my peppermints ALWAYS survive treatment.

 

[prattreef]

shrimp usually survive, hermits almost never. Corals, and other non-arthropd inverts are unaffected.

 

[oceanrealm]

Make sure you follow up on all the treatments. Even if you dont see them treat.

 

[Jdubbs]

thanks guys. so I have a 75 gallon tank about 15g in my 30 sump, 4-5 in my skimmer (will turn the octopus pump off).. you think 100 gallons, about 1/4 of a pill is about right? or should it be 1/3?

 

[Jdubbs]

i guess that means my rose bubble tip anenome is ok too phew

 

[daaznmofo]

treat the whole tank. quick and easy.

 

[NYreefNoob]

i usd a 1\2 pill on 60g total, ive done a little diff dosing reg though and has worked for me

 

[Jdubbs]

so the dosing doesn't have to be exact? I read it was .025g per 10 gallons. This suggest to measure it by the .001 of a gram.. is this nothing to worry about? also are water changes a good idea 6 hours after dosing.. the other link says 12hours add carbon but no water change..

http://www.reefs.org/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=439155#439155

 

[Jdubbs]

also, will nudibranches be affected? I forgot I dropped $125 for 6 of berghia nudibranches to get rid of my aptasia that are still hibernating..

 

[NYreefNoob]

me personally i would pull all the crabs and shrimp, 1 of my cleaners survived last time but barely as well as a rock cleaner shrimp, i thought they was goners, you will have to take any reactors off line as well as turn the skimmer off, makes a good time to give it a bath. not sure on the nudis

 

[Jdubbs]

What different dosing regiment did you use nynoob? I don't know how to get all my shrimp and craps out! I guess I'll have to sacrifice some for the greater good and see what happens..

 

[Jdubbs]

so 12 hours or 6 hours as Dustin suggests... ??

 

[prattreef]

Dustin's suggested protocol is very conservative and rightly so as he was just going public with this info for the 1st time. Since then it has been learned from experience--- mine included --that the dosage and exposure time is not that critical and corals etc. can easily tolerate longer and higher dose exposure.

Dose your tank, leave it over night, do a WC the next day and change the carbon. Make sure you do the follow-up treatments though.