Maybe Red Bugs?!?

[watdachuck]

Hoping for some help id'ing, and also access to Interceptor if Red Bugs are the case. My Fire Acro is still growing as you can see, but it definitely looks irritated with minimal PE. PE is somewhat better at night...

First photo you can see the litter buggers, and the second is a 4 week spread where new growth is apparent, but much more obvious on a single branch versus the others.

This is one of the few smooth skin acros that I have. The others are not effected at all.

The non-smooth-skinned acros looking healthy...

 

[HotRocks]

@KJ can probably help.

#reefsquad

 

[Crabs McJones]

Looks attached to a rock, but are you able to dip it in some coral dip and see what falls off?

 

[watdachuck]

Looks attached to a rock, but are you able to dip it in some coral dip and see what falls off?

It is definitely grown over and attached to two very large rocks. Unfortunately it did exactly what I wanted it to do to reinforce my rock work naturally.

 

[Diesel]

Hard to indentify if these are RBs
If they are they are easy to get rid off.
Another posibility is black spiders, these love the SPS as well but is a pain to battle them.
Need a close up picture to have a positive ID on this.

Marc is always a master in the RBs
And he calls the black acro spiders the black bugs or BBs
http://www.melevsreef.com/articles/red-bugs-no-more

 

[watdachuck]

Here's some from the Bonsai frag....I blasted them off with a Rio 800 trying to bring some relief. Here's the Fire post blasting.

 

[watdachuck]

5 days of blasting bugs off my smooth skinned acros and I'm not seeing signs of their return yet.