leicaguy
Community Member
In 5o years of aquarium keeping I have had very few pest outbreaks, working with the triton method I bought some new macro algae, Saturday my tank was swarming with red and orange "bugs" I had noticed my skimmer producing a huge amount of skim mate in the pervious week, and Thursday/Friday I had lost large colonies of acropora corals, but it was not until Saturday I found out why. I saw thousands of the little pests, I think came in with the Macro Algae, in the sump in the display on the rock crawling on the corals, I quickly dosed with Flatworm X from Salifert, to my amazement I literally saw millions of the "buggers" floating in the water column, I quickly used carbon , about 2 pounds in a canister, removed the scant crushed coral floor and even more appeared, I had the skimmer full blast and the skim mate was nasty brown yellow, I had siphoned out many of the critters but even more appeared, the fish were all OK but the remainder bright fluorescent acros are now brown black sticks! Today a massive water change, fish including some expensive tangs and designer clowns are OK My corals are black! and not the rare black coral! So my question where to go from now? What should I do Strip the whole tank start again ? I have never seen anything like this it was unreal Any advise on my next steps please let me know
And how do you quarantine macro algae, free water dip? Never seen anything like this, thousands in corals lost! all the inverts died also What a disaster
And how do you quarantine macro algae, free water dip? Never seen anything like this, thousands in corals lost! all the inverts died also What a disaster
Here's a link that may help a bit. 
