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01/12/2007, 09:35 PM
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Red bugs vs Aquarium Keeper
The one time I traded with a person I didn't know I caught a bug, a red one actually, and not just one. It is a lesson of having to treat corals as well as quarentining. I can't even hold it against the other hobbyist since I didn't treat or quarentine.
A few weeks back I was looking at some new corals I had bought a month earlier. I had been wondering what could be causing the lack of polyp extension in one of the new corals, and then I saw something I had never seen before. I thought I could see movement, tiny orange/red dots moving around. I took a picture with the intend of magnifying it on the PC. (The following picture is a later one from about two weeks after finding a very few red bugs).  And a bit closer.  Never having experienced this before a bit of panic sets in. How do I treat this? Is there a "reefsafe" treatment? Do I need to invest in a quarentine system because of this? (Not thinking for the future yet). After some questions to a number of locals from my area I found that redbugs are not a disaster, they are however unpleasant and the opinion was they needed to be dealt with. So I got a hold of interceptor, mixed a batch of saltwater for a water change, got carbon ready and then I dumped the crushed pill in the tank, knowing the effect on crabs and shrimp being at worst the same as the effect on red bugs, hoping for the best. After a few hours everyone is happy, the snails are acting funny though. Twisting around, of course then I find out that the snails are doing what they do best, scavenge. They are actually feeding on recently dead hermit crab.  Another hour or so and I begin seeing hermit crabs hanging out, or so I hope.    
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01/12/2007, 09:36 PM
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But right now, I am hitting seven hours of treatment, and with a few unfortunate casualties, this is the result.
  And this is another result  at this point it is still twitching after the snails have feasted on it. So people, new reefers and old reefers alike  treat incomming livestock, don't help spreading this "Oceans STD".
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04/14/2007, 08:00 PM
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A whole pill? Isn't like 1/10 pill by 100g or something like it?
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#6
04/14/2007, 08:02 PM
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Actually it was five scoops of a Salifert spoon
 The post was not meant to be a walkthrough, there are far better ones out there than I can create. More of a warning 
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04/14/2007, 08:30 PM
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The initial results I show a picture of is after seven hours of the first treatment. The treatment is really efficient.
I did three treatments total five days apart from each other.
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04/14/2007, 08:31 PM
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The refugium has a good pod population once again and in a couple of months when I feel confident they are completely gone I will get some replacement shrimp....
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04/14/2007, 09:27 PM
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Happy to hear you did all three treatments. I have yet to figure out why people only do one. Number three for me happens tomorrow am.
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04/14/2007, 10:41 PM
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I read alot about having success with just one. I just figured, if I am going to kill my hermits, shrimp and pods I might as well do all three.
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04/14/2007, 10:44 PM
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Quote:
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04/14/2007, 10:47 PM
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I tried to capture the shrimp....... I lack the skills
I hate having to kill my pets like that, but I wasn't about to tear down the rock because of it. Will be a nasty lesson learned about frag trading.
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