Red bug help

[nater]

So here i am again with red bugs. i have gone through the 3 week treatment and thought i had rid them. they where all over my joe the coral frag. since then , i had not seen any on the joe the coral. so i got two more frags yesterday. one of which is the borealis. looked today and found red bugs. I didn't treat prior to putting in the system, could be my fault. but i didn't see any on the frag when i was at the store. should i just treat the frag , or go through the treatment again at higher dosage?

 

[jaytizzle]

Treat again... what was your dosage in your initial three treatments?

 

[nater]

i have a 90 gallon display , with a 30 gallon sump. i dosed 1/4 tab plus some. i would say i used the most the final treatment. what would you recommend? also , do i really need to run carbon? i did a 15 to 20 gallon water change and ran carbon in my filter sock for 6 hours after each treatment as well.

 

[jaytizzle]

Which size tab? They come in 4 different sizes. Normal treatment is 0.06 mg/gal. You probably have 90 gallons of water volume at the most so 5.4 mg would be your treatment dose.

The carbon will remove the meds from the water column (IIRC) so yes you do need to run it. I wouldn't start it 6 hours after though. Leave the meds in for 24 hours then start the carbon. That may have been your problem if you started the carbon too early.

 

[Acrokeeper3729]

Close the airflow to the skimmer and take out any carbon then dose the interceptor and leave it in for 1 to 4 days, you will not harm anything but pods and some fauna that will all bounce back. Then do a 20 to 30% water change and add the carbon and the skimmer and your good. Do it 2 more times and your all set.

 

[lowbudget]

yep thats right

 

[nater]

i am using the largest dose. 51-100 pounds , 23mg. if i should run the treatment 24 hours , then your right. pretty much went 12 hours of treatment. then 6 hours of carbon afterward. after a 24 hour treatment, how long should i run the carbon for? have you seen this cure a tank of red bugs? i want to do this right this time.

 

[nater]

thanks nick. guess i just wasn't letting the meds do enough work. guess i was being to cautious the first time around. i only have an emerald left in the tank so if he goes, whateves... i am going to dose longer this time around.

 

[nater]

nick , i am running a bermuda skimmer. the only way i found to run water through the skimmer body is to run one of my return lines straight into the body witch flow through the output. think it should do the trick.

 

[Acrokeeper3729]

I have seen this work. The stuff is going to kill off the pods anyway and all the corals tolerate it fine so just leave it in for a few days. Two anyway. You will be fine Nate. That way you may take out any eggs that hatched as well. Then run the carbon for a week or so to be safe and turn the air back on in the skimmer and your good. Repeat as normal for the 3 cycles and be done with them.
Then dip from now on!
There are many worse things you can get. Consider yourself lucky!

 

[jaytizzle]

You have all the advice you need... as far as the emerald goes, you won't kill it. Interceptor won't kill inverts with exoskeletons. The crab will be just fine.

 

[Acrokeeper3729]

Not familliar with the bermuda, can you just take off the airline or submerse it in water? If not then just do what you said. Is it a beckett skimmer?

 

[inactive]

Dumb question, can you put too much interceptor into your tank?

 

[Breakin Newz]

Dumb question, can you put too much interceptor into your tank?

Not sure, but i've overdosed heavily and never had a bad reaction with anything...

 

[Acrokeeper3729]

I'm sure you can Kraylen, but you don't need to.......the regular recomended dose is fine. I do know that you can definately dose heavier and still be good but there definately is a max that the livestock can handle safely. Not sure what it is though.

 

[inactive]

Well yeah, I mean.. I'm not gonna dump a Costco jar in my tank..... but it seems a lot of people under dose it.

 

[Acrokeeper3729]

Lol. How big is a Costco jar?
I know what your saying. I'm just kidding. They do underdose it alot. Most people are afraid of what it may do the first time they use it. So they go light and end up still having the red bugs.

 

[inactive]

Totally understandable.... but not my style. haha

 

[nater]

nick the bermuda skimmer is a SCHLETZ INJECTOR. what ever that is. i'll just submerse this mo fo. i'm ready to be done with these frakin things.

 

[Acrokeeper3729]

Yeah man, just as long as you can get some water through it without airflow and you should be good. You will be fine. They are not that hard to get rid of.
Good luck Nate.