are these red bugs?

[glxtrix]

the orange lil dots on my staghorn. If so I've heard that interceptor takes care of them, where can I find that? Thanks.

[mr_alberta]

Yes, those are red bugs. Interceptor is a heart worm medication for dogs so you could try your local vet. I have to warn you though, its pretty expensive and not all vets will sell it to you either as it requires a prescription.

[Leviathan]

Best thing to do when contacting a vet for the interceptor, is go in face to face. Also in my situation it was a great help to have some sort of documentaion that you were not making it up. I simply printed out the original treatment and my vet glady gave me the dosage I needed. Might or might not work in your situation though.

Here is the link I am refering too:

http://reefs.org/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=45859

[minimalist]

*shudder*

[glxtrix]

hmm, I think I'm going to do the less harsh alternatives first. I did some more research on it, you can buy dips or buy a dragonface pipe fish. Think i might do the dip first. Thanks for the info on the vets stuff.

[Leviathan]

No problem,

Good luck with them!

[glxtrix]

has anyone used the reef dip from seachem or other types like them?

[mr_alberta]

A yellow coris wrasse is also suppose to help if the outbreak isn't too bad.

Good luck!

[minimalist]

Here's the problem with dips; the red bugs that remain in your tank will reproduce full force in a few weeks time.

[glxtrix]

this might be a stupid question, but can you ad the dip to your tank? I ahve a small disp that the red bugs are in, only a 10g with a fuge.

[minimalist]

Use interceptor. Remove any hermits and shrimp beforehand.

[poknsnok]

how fast do these little boogers move around?? are the stationary or do the boogie around pretty quick??

[glxtrix]

will interceptor kill pods?

[glxtrix]

generally they are still, but they do move

[minimalist]

Yes, yes it will kill pods. But your pod pupulation will recovery from the treatments. The red bugs will not. It has an incredible success rate. There's no sense in messing around with anything else.

[glxtrix]

i guess my only concern now is getting a scale to measure as accurate as possible.

[minimalist]

If you get the pill meant for really small dogs, you can just use ~1/2 of it. I recently treated my 10g SPS the same way. Worked WONDERS.

[poknsnok]

I saw some orange specs on my tricolor acro yesterday but it was right when I had fed a ton of cyclopeze to the tank. it seemed to be cyclopeze but redbugs immediately came to mind. Except that the current seemed to be moving these spec around quite a bit. I took my turkey basyer to them and all the specs blew right off. im not sure if they were the bugs or just the food. Im going to have to look at things again tonight

[bigal20874]

I have silimar red bugs in my tank but I just ignor them, what harm can they do?

[minimalist]

They inhibit health, color, and growth. You'll never know how bad they are until you've gotten rid of them.

[svb57]

bigal,

Might be flat worms that you have and they are not the same. THe flat worms I have I too thought were red bugs at first but was told after having people come over and look that they were actually flat worms.

The flat worms I have are never on any coral and have not harmed anything.

[poknsnok]

i dont think flatworms look anything like red bugs

[minimalist]

Agreed.

[mhurley]

Originally posted by glxtrix
i guess my only concern now is getting a scale to measure as accurate as possible.

Not really needed. Over time and experimentation, people have found double, triple, quadruple (you get the idea) dosing still does not harm the corals or fish. It simply kills the bugs faster. I didn't even use a scale when I treated, just cut the pill into rough quarters and went from there. Whether you dose exactly to the milligram or quintuple dose, your bugs and crabs are toast so it really doesn't matter.

IME, YMMV...etc..etc...

Oh and I agree...those are red bugs..not flatworms.

[poknsnok]

hey Mike

are these things very mobile? I saw some orange specs that were kind of swirling over a tricolor acro . it was while I fed cyclopeze so Im not convinced they were bugs.