Warning!!!

[allan]

If you've received ANY frags from me recently, particularly SPS, be aware that I have just been notified that one of my frags contained copapod sized bugs. These may be pods or they may be red bugs. More than likely the latter is true.

I'm in the process of searching for intercept to treat the entire system, if you've suffered for it, let me know and I will do right by you.


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[Bill S]

Allan, go to your vet. Ours (Acres North) was great about it - I printed out a document for him. He thought it was pretty funny.

[aquasport24]

yeah, people there were looking at me funny for getting interceptor for my fish tank. The vet i went to charged me $25 extras for consultant (even though i did all the research my self...lol)

[Southern Flame]

What do red bugs do?

[grouch]

They eat your SPS. http://www.liveaquaria.com/general/general.cfm?general_pagesid=351

[footballdude2k3]

yeah, people there were looking at me funny for getting interceptor for my fish tank. The vet i went to charged me $25 extras for consultant (even though i did all the research my self...lol)
Out of principle I would have walked out.

[allan]

I'm going to examine the tank when I get home.

I've got a line on some intercept, so I may be able to start treating soon.

I had RB a few years ago, treating is pretty easy and relatively painless although I may lose my pod population. That's not much of a worry since they bounce back quickly.


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[ramsey]

Make sure you actually have them man! Like I said, they may have hitch hikes from another source, or it's possible they were something else (doubtful though). I'd hate for you to treat your whole tank and you don't have them. What I saw last night was two or three pretty bright orange specks about 1/4 or 1/2 the size of a full grown copepod. They were only on the tissue and they seemed to be running from polyp to polyp. They'd scurry across the tissue to another polyp. Anyway, I dipped the frag in Bayer and I'm just going to keep an eye on it and dip again in 7 days. Like I said, I only saw two or three, so it's not like it was an infestation.

[malofish]

I didn't have bayer and used high concentration mix of coral revive on a massively infested piece of red planet and rid myself of the bugs...

[allan]

Yeah, the intercept seems like a no go. Going to stop by HD and pick up some Bayer just in case.


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