Red bug treatment

[northbay-reefer]

Ok, next weekend will be my first redbug treatment .... who ever want to give me frags please do it now :D :D

[jkreefer]

I think you have everything in my tank. I need a bigger tank so i can fit more corals

[northbay-reefer]

I was just kidding about the frags :D .... once the treatment is done .... I am going to have to use my quarranteen tank more

[sulcata1619]

with the status of your system you should definitely use quarantine. even if its for a few days so you can get a good look at your new corals.

[northbay-reefer]

yeah, but you know its hard to wait :D :D I'll have to set up my lights on the 10gal tank to do just that

[crispyreef]

I need to come by this week to drop off the purple rim. What would be a good day, Tue or Wed?

[northbay-reefer]

Chris, tuesday or Wed is great, let me know. I'll be home after 5:30pm

[crispyreef]

Tom, today sounds good. Does 6:00 work for you?

[northbay-reefer]

Chris, the sounds fine I'll see you there

[northbay-reefer]

Redbug treatment update:

2-27-07 after trapping my last shrimp and putting him into a separate tank. I mixed up a whole pill (for 360 gal) and dump it into my tank in the morning before work. shut the air off on the skimmer intake and let it run that way for a while for the medication to work its way through all of the system, took out all the carbon and phosphate media and turning off the ozone generator.

Came home after work and everything looks normal, nothing was stressed so I turn back on my skimmer and it went to work right away skimming wetter then normal, later I did a 40 gal water change, put the carbon and phophate remover back into the system.

This morning I notice the pollups extension on some corals were much better so the red bugs have been killed and is no where to be found. I will do another treatment next week (double the dose of the first treatment) to get rid of any bugs that might hatch from eggs or bugs that survived the first treatment.

This whole process is very simple and no stress at all to anything except crustations.

[corndogg]

I just did a water change from my 2nd treament yesterday. Recent studies show that RB's are live bearers not egg layers so one super strong dose is enough to eradicate them. I just wanted to be sure so I did two treatments a week apart.

[corndogg]

http://www.ericborneman.com/Tegastes-content/Treatment.html

[northbay-reefer]

Interesting, in that case I'll do another one in two weeks when the next water change is due