Interceptor

[allan]

I can't believe the turn around in my sps. Their polyps are extended and even the color has started showing.

Todd had come over to the house and told me that I had red bugs. I said "nah, that's just cyano" while muttering under my breath "noon!"

Then he pointed out these tiny little dots... That moved!

So I took two interceptor tabs, on two separate occasions, and dosed the tank. I lost a peppermint shrimp, as far as I can tell. But now my sps seem to be rebounding. I'm happy again.

... Now to the flatworms.

[txg8gxp]

Good deal... I had 3 shrimp die in less then 6 hours after my first treatment.

[Gseclipse02]

lol ... so you never had cyano lol ??? just bugs ?/?

[CoryDude]

Yes, one of the easiest pests to get rid of. Too bad they can't all be that easy.

Speaking of PITA, what kind of flatworms are we talking about here; red planaria or the AEFW kind?

[allan]

Well they don't look red... Definitely flat though. They like to caress my lps and mushrooms.

Doesn't appear to impact them although I do think that when there are enough of them the mushrooms seem to not expand to it's fullest.

I don't seem to have them anymore in my DT (six line) but every once in a while I can see them in my frag tank.

Sometimes I pull out the coral and rinse them off with tank water.

[CoryDude]

I had some whitish/brown ones on some mushrooms. A 3 minute freshwater dip did the trick.

[allan]

I do the dip everytime I get tired of looking at them. I'd put a wrass in my frag tank but the last one I had did a swan dive out the back of the tank. It was a crispy critter by the time I found it.

[CoryDude]

They look like weird potato chips when they get crispy like that.

[allan]

My first train trip to waegon I bought a boxed lunch. When I opened the box there was a pile of tiny little guppies that were dried all crispy like that. And all of them were looking at me!!!

I couldn't bring myself to eat more than a dozen of them or so. A spoonful.