I just nuked my tank!

Skynyrd Fish · Jan 10, 2020

With Interceptor! I have bugs, they look like tiny specs of pepper. I don’t know if they are red or black or both. I smashed up one large dog pill and dissolved it in a cup of tank water. My total water volume is approximately 120on the high side. Should I add more? I was not able to really find a good guide. Best I read was that size pill should treat 400 gal. I’m going to do 3 follow up treatments. Let me know what you think and if you’ve actually used interceptor also. Thanx.

tankstudy · Jan 10, 2020

Skynyrd Fish said:
With Interceptor! I have bugs, they look like tiny specs of pepper. I don’t know if they are red or black or both. I smashed up one large dog pill and dissolved it in a cup of tank water. My total water volume is approximately 120on the high side. Should I add more? I was not able to really find a good guide. Best I read was that size pill should treat 400 gal. I’m going to do 3 follow up treatments. Let me know what you think and if you’ve actually used interceptor also. Thanx.

I've used it as a QT treatment many times. On soft coral, anemones, LPS and sps. Very effective.

lpsouth1978 · Jan 10, 2020

I used intercptor several years ago for a red bug outbreak and it cleared them out in a hurry. I hope you removed snails and other inverts. ALL of the snails we didn't get out died as well as most of the crabs.

Graffiti Spot · Jan 10, 2020

Interceptor doesn’t affect snails. I have never had issues with using it. Pod populations rebound a number of weeks later and no affects on the tank. A tank that’s not stable maybe might have a nutrient bump from the die off but really it’s not much.

Phildago · Jan 10, 2020

Only crab and pods will be effected. Even then, large crabs can sometimes pull through, but I wouldn't risk it

Skynyrd Fish · Jan 10, 2020

I pulled all the crabs. It was cool to see these bugs flip out once I put the interceptor in the tank. I’m not sure if I have red, black or a combo of both bugs. Also 9 hours later I’m not sure if I still see one or two hanging on still. It was crazy to see the mass exodus of red or black bugs when this stuff hit the water. A few of them were moving pretty quick. I had never noticed them moving before. I also saw a bunch on the rock by some of the acros a couple hours later. I saw a few on corals that were doing fine also. So I did make an observation. I have high flow, some parts of corals get blasted, some parts don’t. I have a couple with nice pe and color on the parts that are getting blasted while the parts getting not so blasted had visible bugs on them and no to little pe. These bugs don’t like getting blasted by my mp60. I’m thinking Im Going to do 2 follow up treatments.

Any thoughts if I also have black bugs?

Skynyrd Fish · Jan 10, 2020

So tonight I still see what I feel is a couple red bugs hanging on to one of my worst infected coral. I tried basting them off. I did start carbon and my skimmer at about 20 hours into the treatment. Is it normal for dead bugs to not fall off? I will be treating again next Thursday.