Tiny tiny little bugs around my Bazooka frag

MikeD88 · Sep 13, 2009

Today I looked very closely at my Bazooka Joe frag, and I notice tiny little bugs crawling around on the disc that the frag is on. There is no way I could get a pic of them, because I don't have a good camera. Any idea of what they could be? Could they be harmful at all? Also... I was just wondering, when snails and hermits crawl near the frag and their shells rub up against the frag, does this harm it at all? Thank You everyone for any help ahead of time.

Pizzapro83 · Sep 13, 2009

are yur corals ok? Whenever I'm worried I dose intercepter. I learned the hard way

MikeD88 · Sep 13, 2009

Everything looks great! I'm just paranoid about it

mpoletti · Sep 13, 2009

What color are they?

Pizzapro83 · Sep 13, 2009

As long as it looks ok you should be fine. My good buddy ktar taught me that everyday you inspect every coral. If you see anything out of wack or recedding or whatever dose intercepter. One time my flame thrower started to look different and I waited to dose and ended up losing it

MikeD88 · Sep 13, 2009

marko9 said:
What color are they?

They were like clear/brownish color... the look like the could have been crawling mite looking things... the only reason I could see them was because the disc the frag is on is completely clean white. They are TINY though

MikeD88 · Sep 13, 2009

Pizzapro83 said:
As long as it looks ok you should be fine. My good buddy ktar taught me that everyday you inspect every coral. If you see anything out of wack or recedding or whatever dose intercepter. One time my flame thrower started to look different and I waited to dose and ended up losing it

What happened to make you lose it? and what exactly is interceptor?

MikeD88 · Sep 13, 2009

Pizzapro83 said:
As long as it looks ok you should be fine. My good buddy ktar taught me that everyday you inspect every coral. If you see anything out of wack or recedding or whatever dose intercepter. One time my flame thrower started to look different and I waited to dose and ended up losing it

What happened to make you lose it? and what exactly is interceptor?

Ian · Sep 13, 2009

they sound like amphipods and copepods... no worries there...

BlazinNano · Sep 13, 2009

MikeD88 said:
What happened to make you lose it? and what exactly is interceptor?

interceptor is a drug for dog that prevents heartworms and other internal parasites. In tanks it kills all the bad bugs like red bugs and whatever.

wicked demon · Sep 13, 2009

Witout pics its hard to tell, I have never heard of a parasite that targets chalices but that doesn't mean they don't exist. I would tend to agrre with copepods and amphipods. Intercepter is not a cure all but it does kill some parasites, lugols dips and supplementation is also a good approach, as is melafix dips for lps. Bightwell makes a product called restore that I have been using with great success as well.
Bottom line is--- if its not broken....don't fix it.

BlazinNano · Sep 13, 2009

Will melafix work on zoas or just LPS? I never even thought about using melafix.

DaveA · Sep 14, 2009

bigian said:
they sound like amphipods and copepods... no worries there...

??

I only see pods for about 10 seconds after lights on. I see them as they scurry for hiding places. And I never see them in the display tank because the hermit crabs eat them. I only see pods in the refugium.

twinspots_goby · Sep 14, 2009

I see pods in my display tank all the time and I have lots of hermit crabs in my tank.

wicked demon · Sep 14, 2009

I don't think a hermit could catch a copepod?? And no, I would not use melafix on zoas, or SPS, only had success with LPS.

Murfman · Sep 14, 2009

review on melafix;

Melafix and Pimafix - How They Work and Don't Work - Reeflands Forum

Lugols or Tropic Marin Coral Cure works great with Zoas.
Tropic Marin Elimi-Phos Longlife

mpoletti · Sep 14, 2009

I have seen a specific type of pods called sand skater on the bottom of my chalice disks that are on the sand bed. sphaeromatid isopods

DaveA · Sep 14, 2009

wicked demon said:
I don't think a hermit could catch a copepod?? And no, I would not use melafix on zoas, or SPS, only had success with LPS.

And the two of you see the pods with the lights on?

sanddune600 · Sep 14, 2009

it was when I started getting more fish eating pods that mine started to hide when the light turn on

DaveA · Sep 14, 2009

sanddune600 said:
it was when I started getting more fish eating pods that mine started to hide when the light turn on

Hmmm. Mine are in a 55 gallon remote refugium. There are no fish in there, and there never were. The pods are NEVER out when the lights are on. They hide within seconds of the lights coming on.