Gray bug?

[aaron23]

Anyone encounter these? All acros looking fine none have died on me and good PE. They are fast moving and no bigger than a pencil point probably the size of a red bug. Will interceptor work?

 

[aaron23]

Anyone have ideas? Thanks in advance

 

[aaron23]

No one has seen these before?

 

[deerhunter06]

turn the blues down and maybe someone can see what you are talking about

 

[Tahoe61]

Interceptor targets Arthropods, invertebrates with an exoskeleton, therefore if it looks like a mite the right does interceptor will indeed work.

 

[aaron23]

They look exactly like this in the first photo on the paletta green tip acro from this guys thread

http://www.reefdup.com/2013/01/25/black-bugs-gray-bugs-invisible-killers/

 

[deerhunter06]

They look exactly like this in the first photo on the paletta green tip acro from this guys thread

http://www.reefdup.com/2013/01/25/black-bugs-gray-bugs-invisible-killers/

These seem to be showing up more and more do a search on the forums I think someone just dealt with them successfully. I'll look too I thnk it might have been @twilliard

 

[Coralville]

Are your sps producing a lot of slime and is there recession at the tips?

 

[Sabellafella]

Welcome to the club

 

[Sabellafella]

Dip does jack, tryed pickin them off , bayer coral rx reveive, even spot treated the area with a syringe and peroxide. I had my wrasse pick at that frag for over 2 weeks and then stopped so hopefully there gone

 

[aaron23]

No stn no rtn at all - just bugs about or smaller than red bugs crawling about

@Sabellafella what concentration Bayer did you use? I'm planning on dipping all of my corals

 

[Sabellafella]

No stn no rtn at all - just bugs about or smaller than red bugs crawling about

@Sabellafella what concentration Bayer did you use? I'm planning on dipping all of my corals

I was sketched out at first because i inspect frags down to underneight the glue. Caught these 2 bugs. This frag i used every dip i had for 2 days straight. Like a moron i put this frag in my display tank for a night before i transfered them to my frag tank. So ive ben eyeing down all my corals and havnt seen anything yet (cross fingers)

 

[Sabellafella]

Not sure, i fill this little urine cup up and pour it into a gallon of water, so w.e that is lol

 

[aaron23]

Don't want to be the bearer of bad news but these bugs are nocturnal. So look at night

 

[Sabellafella]

Don't want to be the bearer of bad news but these bugs are nocturnal. So look at night

You can just barely see them, ontop of that, if you do see them, as soon as they start to move they disappear. Thats the first article ive ever seen about them, im surprized the person acually found them in a bayer dip because they are clear. I have a frag rack as an eye sore on my front pane, and anytime i get new corals i leave them against the glass + watch them untill im comphy to start mounting

 

[Sabellafella]

From what ive seen, they just stay on the coral host, and will litterally not move at all. Hopefully theyres a way to eradicate them safely

 

[Roboson]

I noticed earlier today that there is a tiny grey thing on one of my zoa polyps and the zoa will only open halfway. I'm interested to know if this is possibly the same thing. It's absolutely tiny.

 

[Coralville]

I had white (or gray) bugs. The pest I had moved fast and was just barely visible. The worst affected corals were the tricolor valida and blue tort - no pe, sliming tips and tissue recession, again mostly on tips. Green slimer seemingly not affected at all and the Hawkins only a little. I treated the tank with sentinel spectrum and that took care of the problem. Almost sounds like we're describing different pests though....