downhill_biker Posted March 27, 2009 Author Share Posted March 27, 2009 Good to hear' date=' did what we talked about work?[/quote'] No, I tried taking the printout of treatment to the vet, and nobody would sell me the interceptor. I got it from one of the LFS up in Portland. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
downhill_biker Posted March 27, 2009 Author Share Posted March 27, 2009 I dont know if the redbugs were the culprit of my coral RTN. I checked water yesterday and noticed that my nitrates creeped up to about 10. I did a large water change, and am using some seachem de-nitrate. do you guys think that 10ppm nitrate is high enough to kill SPS? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
impur Posted March 28, 2009 Share Posted March 28, 2009 FWIW way back when i had redbugs i had them for probably 6 months before i knew they were there. Corals dulled in color, but i never lost any from the redbugs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThePremiumAquarium Posted March 28, 2009 Share Posted March 28, 2009 Die redbugs die! I would also recommend, if possible, and if you like them, dragonface pipefish. They are pretty awesome critters and do really well in reef tanks in my experience. I have had friends that had redbugs and introduced a couple of these guys and within weeks they had no redbugs and never had an issue again. I also used to keep one in one of my tanks just because I thought they looked badass and were fun to watch. They will compete slightly with your mandarine, but typically eat slightly smaller microfauna(unlike the six-lines IMO). Garrett Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
downhill_biker Posted March 28, 2009 Author Share Posted March 28, 2009 Thanks miles and garrett. Miles, I didn't know how much the redbugs were "killing" the coral, as much as they were irritating the coral. That is good info to know, just what i was thinking. Garrett, I already have the mandarin and six line, do you think my system could support another fish? Especially another pod eater? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThePremiumAquarium Posted March 29, 2009 Share Posted March 29, 2009 Personally I am not sure that I would try it unless I was feeding microfauna to my system from another source. It would kind of be fun to see if that did help, but at the same time I would hate to see a sustainable pod population decrease and cause problems with the mandarine and six-line. Remember dragon face pipes will usually go for the really small critters like redbugs whereas the mandarine and six-line tend to go with the bigger critters. Not to say that they won't go for the smaller ones on occasion too. Garrett Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr S Posted March 30, 2009 Share Posted March 30, 2009 Sorry for the hijack. What eats flatworms besides a velvet nudibranch? Will the pipefish or 6 line? ps. Is there such a thing as a cigar fish? I know, lame joke! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael7979 Posted March 30, 2009 Share Posted March 30, 2009 I have heard of mandrains eating flatworms. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
impur Posted March 30, 2009 Share Posted March 30, 2009 My coris wrasse eats em. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jason7504 Posted April 1, 2009 Share Posted April 1, 2009 will 6-lines eat red bugs since they can eat parasites? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
downhill_biker Posted April 1, 2009 Author Share Posted April 1, 2009 I came home from work today and took all my rocks out and caught all the shrimp. I have been catching crabs for the last week. I smashed up my interceptor pill and did my first treatment. Everything looks great and dont know if I still have red bugs, but they "should" be dead by now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coralreefaquarist Posted April 1, 2009 Share Posted April 1, 2009 picked up a interceptor pill today need to call curtis to get exact instructions but plan to dose tomarow(plotting) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
impur Posted April 1, 2009 Share Posted April 1, 2009 A sixline won't get rid of all the redbugs, if it eats them at all. Glad to hear it went well Curtis. 1 dose down 2 to go!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coralreefaquarist Posted April 6, 2009 Share Posted April 6, 2009 so i dosed the interceptor 3-4 days ago. everything went well. i couldnt get the acro crabs out. sucks i really love them and its not like you can order acro crabs(sad). but when it comes down to 1 gizilion dollars in sps or a few freebie crabs. living and adorable personalitys or not. i chose the sps. everything has gone smooth. my mandarins have kinda been spazing out not being able to find pods. but i have them both on like and frozen brine multiple times a day. and its working well. havent seen any red bugs. all corals look great(rock2) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
albertareef Posted April 6, 2009 Share Posted April 6, 2009 Good to hear it's going well Shawn. Sorry about the acro crabs though... definitely a bummer but, as you say, not much to be done. Hopefully you and Curtis will have the red bugs whipped her pretty soon. (enforcer) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coralreefaquarist Posted April 6, 2009 Share Posted April 6, 2009 yeah i figure to be safe no trades out for a month and a half. but im sure 3 doses will destroy everything.i plan to add at least a few different bottles of live pods to seed it for the mandarins. i figure 8,000 love pods should be able to start a new population. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
downhill_biker Posted April 6, 2009 Author Share Posted April 6, 2009 yeah i figure to be safe no trades out for a month and a half. but im sure 3 doses will destroy everything.i plan to add at least a few different bottles of live pods to seed it for the mandarins. i figure 8' date='000 love pods should be able to start a new population.[/quote'] If that is what you want to do that is fine. "Being Safe" would be 3 weeks. The red bugs are killed after the first treatment and after that it is just precautionary in order to kill any that somehow missed it, like eggs. Both Borneman and Melev say that 3 treatments is "for sure" death to the red bugs and all of their offspring. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coralreefaquarist Posted April 6, 2009 Share Posted April 6, 2009 good to know.ill prob still wait. i would hate to do a bunch of trades and have someone get 1 somehow. plus if i myself would feel a little weary buying from someone who just had red bugs. i dunno i figure it will give me an whoever a little piece of mind. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
impur Posted April 6, 2009 Share Posted April 6, 2009 I did 1 dose when i had them and they were back in 2 weeks FWIW. Multiple doses are definately needed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
downhill_biker Posted April 6, 2009 Author Share Posted April 6, 2009 I agree with both of those comments. I just dont want anyone to feel afraid when I trade corals before I move. I am doing the 3 week treatment and it is proven to be enough to guarantee the death of redbugs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
downhill_biker Posted April 9, 2009 Author Share Posted April 9, 2009 Treatment #2 done. All corals are looking great and haven't seen a single red bug. Only one more week to go!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
albertareef Posted April 9, 2009 Share Posted April 9, 2009 Good to hear Curtis! Hope you will be permanently bug free soon (rock2) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
downhill_biker Posted April 10, 2009 Author Share Posted April 10, 2009 One of my clams isn't looking so hot. It isn't dead, so hopefully it comes back. I know that when they truly die, they do it very fast. Let's keep our fingers crossed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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