Black bugs on sps

[reef80]

Holly Acro Molly...I won't be able to sleep after seeing pictures of those little boogers...but I did over come them...a user by the name of Laser had them and you can do a search for his thred with some insight also. this is what work for me...they are any acro freaks worst nitemare...but as of today...no signs of them...

 

[Brad Vaughn]

I dipped in iodine, interceptor and Bayer. Bayer triple strength for 30 minutes killed them. I don't their life cycle but I did end starting mt tank over after losing more than 50 acro frags. One of the coral vendors I talked to in Ca. said that nobody knows much about them but they think they come out of Aus. I did see the bugs on other corals as well but they weren't affected. Only my acros were chomped on and they did seem to start at the base and work their way up. pipefish seem to eat them.

 

[Brad Vaughn]

Holly Acro Molly...I won't be able to sleep after seeing pictures of those little boogers...but I did over come them...a user by the name of Laser had them and you can do a search for his thred with some insight also. this is what work for me...they are any acro freaks worst nitemare...but as of today...no signs of them...

my experience too - was totally devastating and I almost gave up the hobby.

 

[erk]

This is interesting. I've had some small, ~1mm black bugs running around on my acros for about two weeks now. Acros are still growing and polyps out. No deaths, not even receding. Bought a Halichoeres melanurus to hopefully eat them. Also have a geometric pygmy hawkfish in the tank that comes out in the evening. I guess they are eating the bugs as there aren't as many as there were 2 weeks ago. Considered nuking the tank or pulling the corals and dipping, but decided to hold out and observe before doing anything drastic.

 

[DereksReef77]

Just curious if any of you guys have wrasses in your tanks? If so do the wrasses eat them or not?

 

[Brad Vaughn]

Just curious if any of you guys have wrasses in your tanks? If so do the wrasses eat them or not?

yes I have wrasses and they eat them. Coris, Melanarus and Leopard. Also my pipefish eats them.

 

[thirst]

Does it look like this?

 

[Brad Vaughn]

Does it look like this?

The ones I had did not look like that but I talked with somebody who had those exact ones

 

[thirst]

What did they say about the devils in the video?

 

[Brad Vaughn]

Does it look like this?

Do you have any pictures of them on the coral?

 

[Brad Vaughn]

The same as what you've read here. Very hard to deal with. I believe he was having success with iodine dips

 

[McMullen]

Great info guys! Thanks for sharing! Another reason to quarantine!!!

 

[TNT32D]

Crazy!

 

[Rick.45cal]

Does it look like this?

 

[Sabellafella]

Scary stuff there

 

[Vaughn17]

Those things made my skin crawl.

 

[Littleb]

Hi all. Anyone closer to finding a cure for these. I'm suffering with black pod like bugs on my acros and stuck with what way to turn now

 

[Brad Vaughn]

Hi all. Anyone closer to finding a cure for these. I'm suffering with black pod like bugs on my acros and stuck with what way to turn now

Can you post a pic? You may be able to QT and do Iodine dips until you see them gone. I don't know how long it would take for the DT tank to clear or if the only eat acros. Seems like they can survive a while without them.

 

[Littleb]

Trying to upload a vid from last nite but cant seem to

 

[Littleb]

Sorry. Pic is from a vid that won't up load. Those tiny black dots r only a couple of the bugs. There quite quick and u can c the state of the frag which has now been binned