Is this black bug??

[Deej1534]

I found this today after doing a coral dip in Red Sea dipx. I saw a few come off and am not too sure what it is. I heard black bugs like acros but I didn’t get an acro and the distributor said they believed it to be some sort of copepod. It’s hard to tell. Any help would be great. I dipped the corals twice and did a freshwater dip with power head in both dips. I have moved the corals to my display tank but am considering removing them and putting them all in qt in a big bin I have with a light set up on it. Any help would be great

 

[vetteguy53081]

I found this today after doing a coral dip in Red Sea dipx. I saw a few come off and am not too sure what it is. I heard black bugs like acros but I didn’t get an acro and the distributor said they believed it to be some sort of copepod. It’s hard to tell. Any help would be great. I dipped the corals twice and did a freshwater dip with power head in both dips. I have moved the corals to my display tank but am considering removing them and putting them all in qt in a big bin I have with a light set up on it. Any help would be great

Hard to tell on a fingernail but could possibly be
If so, this is an unwanted battle and is treated and defeated with use of either Dr Gs on eBay or interceptor pill from a veterinarian

 

[Deej1534]

Hard to tell on a fingernail but could possibly be
If so, this is an unwanted battle and is treated and defeated with use of either Dr Gs on eBay or interceptor pill from a veterinarian

I haven’t been able to find any good photos on what they look like. I dipped them in dipx and did a freshwater (ro/di) dip. I wonder if that would have killed the eggs? I put them in my display tank yesterday. If there were eggs I wonder what their cycle is. I’ll do more research. I may have to pull all the corals out of my display and move to a qt tank :/

 

[vetteguy53081]

I haven’t been able to find any good photos on what they look like. I dipped them in dipx and did a freshwater (ro/di) dip. I wonder if that would have killed the eggs? I put them in my display tank yesterday. If there were eggs I wonder what their cycle is. I’ll do more research. I may have to pull all the corals out of my display and move to a qt tank :/

Dip won’t phase them much and no effect on eggs
Eggs have to be scraped off

 

[Deej1534]

Dip won’t phase them much and no effect on eggs
Eggs have to be scraped off

Is this what they look like??

 

[vetteguy53081]

Can’t open video on my phone but best description is like a little flea

 

[Deej1534]

Can’t open video on my phone but best description is like a little flea

Did the picture not show? The bugs i saw were a bit different then what your describing

 

[Deej1534]

Did the picture not show? The bugs i saw were a bit different then what your describing

Sadly my cyphastrea aren’t looking great after being dipped. I hope they come back

 

[vetteguy53081]

Unfortunately these

Did the picture not show? The bugs i saw were a bit different then what your describing

Unfortunately these are

 

[Deej1534]

Unfortunately these

Unfortunately these are

Crap I’ll have to remove the frag then and move it to qt. What ever was there is dead. How often do the eggs hatch? I don’t want it to spread

 

[vetteguy53081]

Crap I’ll have to remove the frag then and move it to qt. What ever was there is dead. How often do the eggs hatch? I don’t want it to spread

I believe their cycle life is 8 days to hatching point from eggs

 

[Deej1534]

I believe their cycle life is 8 days to hatching point from eggs

I sadly only have a little one gallon tank with white LED I am not sure if the coral will survive long in this :/ I may need to set something else up. Do you know if the qt tank has to be filtered for coral? This will be my first coral I have had to qt

 

[vetteguy53081]

I sadly only have a little one gallon tank with white LED I am not sure if the coral will survive long in this :/ I may need to set something else up. Do you know if the qt tank has to be filtered for coral? This will be my first coral I have had to qt

Any light and water movement you can provide is already a good start

 

[Deej1534]

Any light and water movement you can provide is already a good start

I keep getting different responses on this. A lot of responses say that the bugs are too large to be black bugs. I am still going to qt but what else could it be. This is the size below

 

[vetteguy53081]

I keep getting different responses on this. A lot of responses say that the bugs are too large to be black bugs. I am still going to qt but what else could it be. This is the size below

Glad you posted that pic again. Now that I have access to my large screen at home, this looks like what is known as ostracod and their bodies are flattened from side to side and protected by a bivalve like calcareous valve or shell. The hinge of the two valves is in the upper dorsal region of the body. They are classified as harmless.


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[Deej1534]

Glad you posted that pic again. Now that I have access to my large screen at home, this looks like what is known as ostracod and their bodies are flattened from side to side and protected by a bivalve like calcareous valve or shell. The hinge of the two valves is in the upper dorsal region of the body. They are classified as harmless.


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Should I be safe and still qt you think or let it stay where it is?

 

[vetteguy53081]

Should I be safe and still qt you think or let it stay where it is?

Yes

 

[Deej1534]

Yes

My worry is this thing is pretty shocked from the treatment don’t wanna move it and hurt it more

 

[vetteguy53081]

My worry is this thing is pretty shocked from the treatment don’t wanna move it and hurt it more

No need to further quarantine.