Treating with INTERCEPTOR today

[adamRS80]

I started treatment at 11:45 this morning. Everything is fine except that interesting worm that I posted a picture of last week is now curled up in a ball floating around in my tank. I re-attached a photo of my now deceased yellow worm. I was able to trap and remove all of my hermits before treatment. My one acro crab is fine but it's only been an hour. The polyps on one of my acros are way extended but I guess could mean that it's either extremely stressed or doing well, but I would assume that it's stressed. A few of my acros look like their polyps have thrown up and have little stringy things waving. Nothing like putting dog medicine in your tank. We'll see how it goes. If anybody knows that they have these and have not treated for them please let people know that you have them. I have no idea how I got them but please do your best to keep them from spreading.

[adamRS80]

That is a picture of the worm before treatment. Now it the size of a BB all curled up. Bummer.

[adamRS80]

My acro crab is now venturing away from the center of the coral and moving out so I think the treatment is getting to him. It's been almost 3 hours. Everything else seems to be fine

[Instar]

Don't toss the worm out. They expand and contract so they can recover. Worms are not really succeptable to much, but,
on the other hand this is a "worm" med. Just keep it in a little QT with some fresh salt water and see if it comes back around
in a couple of days.

[Instar]

The corals are reacting to the small particles of the tablet as they would to any other small particles that suddenly started to
blow around in the water. Find ground flake food might have the same effect. As for polyp extension, there is a beef flavoring
in the tablets to stimulate a feeding response. Other polyp extension is due to the fact that the bugs are not irritating the
coral so much and they are loving it.
I hope the acro crab makes it, but, if at any point you can capture it and
get it into fresh water, do it. They don't survive all 3 treatments even if they make it through the first one.

[adamRS80]

Well the acropora crab didn't make it. It was on a coral that I couldn't remove so I really wasn't able to remove it. Everything else is looking good. I did a 30% water change and I'm running carbon. I can't see any mites so I'd call it a success. Untill next week...

[Ram_Puppy]

Adam, didn't know if you were looking for an ID on that worm, it's a medusa worm, great little scavenger, related to the 'spaghettie' and 'mamma mia' worms from places like Indo-Pacific Sea farms.

[Instar]

After doing the treatment and realizing such a very tiny piece of dust you put in there, now I am sure you can appreciate why
you don't mess with the tank unless your hands are freshly rinsed off with tap water so there is absolutely no contaminating
soap or lotion or oil on your hands. Dry you hands with a clean white paper towel, no a towel from the laundry as this also
has soap and softener residue. Over time, it gets in the reef from you hands. You probably alreay do this, but, others reading
this may be less careful. Doens't take much to affect the reef, does it?