Be Advised

Please be advised if you bought or traded any frags with me recently you may have red bugs. Yep that's right spotted them crawling on my icefire the other night. Could only see a couple but after treating the tank with interceptor there where quite a few on most acros. Two more treatments and they will be gone. But like I said if you got frags from me and didn't dip and qt you are at risk!

 

Thank you for being up front with everyone. Sorry for your problem. Looks like your in the right direction.

 

Kill those little bastards!

 

I think the first treatment killed most if not all but will do the next two to make absolutely sure. @jeremy I believe this is why the fox flame never colored up yet.

 

Yup. I bet you are correct. They attack the smooth skin acros. But red bugs are easy to kill. Just a pain in the butt.

 

Lol the lady at the vet front desk though I was a nut when I explained the situation to her. Luckily the vet herself had herd of it and sold me the interceptor no problem.

 

Lol. I tried the same thing about 3 years ago. They really did think I was crazy. So I had to get it a different way.

 

Joes pet meds.com is were I got mine.
Came outa Canada & no ? Asked
Works great but kiss ur pods/and most inverts goodby.
Some how those lil starfish made it threw 2 treatments tho

 

Yeah I have a 18x18 bale of cheato in my sump and the first treatment nuked a million or so pods. Oh well they will come back. So far my shrimp and emerald crabs are fine but lost a few blue legs.

 

will an eel and a puffer or anenomes make it through the treatment?

 

Yep they will be fine. Only kills shrimp, crabs, and pods. And sometimes the crabs and shrimp survive to. It won't kill all the pods just some.

 

where can i get the meds and dosage instructions?

 

You can get Interceptor from a vet. But that can get complicated because you need a prescription and the medication is made for dogs. Most vets look at you like your crazy when you tell them why you want it. There is a few websites, one is mentioned in an earlier post, that are out of US that don't require a script.
I always get the large dog pill. 1 pill good for 380 gallons of water. There is no set amount. For an estimated 150 gallons I had at the time. I dissolved half a pill in a gallon or so of salt water. Then dumped in tank. I did this at night. I also pulled all crabs snails and shrimp I could catch before dosing. Then I shut down carbon reactor and skimmer until next day.
Then I did 3 10% water changes first couple days.
The bugs that were left after first treatment were not moving and I blew them off with a turkey baster. Do 1 dose every 7 days. 3 doses and you will be good. This will kill most if not all your shrimp, crabs, pods. So keep up with water changes and run carbon next day after dosing, remember to remove carbon before dosing each time.
Any more questions let me know. You can also search on Reef Central or Reef2Reef. Just search Red Bugs or Interceptor.
I used the Interceptor Spectrum. Large Dog Chewies. It has 23 grams of the active ingredient.

 

Skimmer may go crazy so I turn pinwheel pump off and only let recirculating pump run while treating.

 

I think @FishBrain should give out free acro frags to everyone so we can all learn from this experience.

 

Well pretty sure the bugs are all dead now lol but if I ever get them again I'll be sure to send a few frags your way!

 

do they primarily like SPSs? All the pics I see of them are on SPS. I only have 1 so it may be tough to see if I have them.

 

That's what they attack is Sps. Mainly smooth skin acropora. Like tri color, purple bonsai, purple Nana, Hawkins, deep waters like red dragon, pac man, stuff like that.

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Usually see them on the base or under side of branches.

 

DFW Marine Aquarium Society • View topic - Quintessential RED bugs treatment & Interceptor info thr
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A few links. Good info on reef central too.

 

Update: they have been found in four more local tanks. Moral of the story is that we all need to take dipping and qt a little more seriously!

Bill