[mattie]

scott as ya know I just treated my tank for red bugs about 1 week ago
as for the condition's leading up to the event 75% of the acro corals had them now they were not in huge numbers but they were noticebly growing in population at first there were no changes to any of the corals but as the amount of bugs increased first i noticed that several of the polyps would be closed and there would not be full polyps extension at night which there was previously. what had prompted me to go forward with the treatment at the time was a green slimer acro was turning brown/red and all the polyps around the base had closed up and would not open for several days maybe 2 weeks and a tri color coral was not opening up either.

in the past i had contacted seachem about the issue the said dip the corals it didn't work some fell of but stayed alive for hours in container filled with iodine....i was told that a mandarin would eat them NOT true....

since i have 2 dog's i got a pill and asked the manufacturer about the formula to find out if I could use a smaller pill and i discovered that all of the Interceptor pill's carry the same amount of active ingrediant per MG of wieght so I used a smaller pill

I did not follow the direction's exactly... I did guess total water volume and I did attempt to add exactly 25mg of pill per 10G of water...... but for my mandarin I turned off the sump during the treatment and did not turn it on untill after a 40-50% water change becouse it was not worth starving a fish out( he's a picky eater and has grown alot in 8 months)
I was scared to death that I was doing this treatment I have 30-40 different corals plus a few clams. a few hermits and an emerald crab that if he died i would not be said aka. Godzilla
I treated the tank last monday after I went to the movies and hung out at the Lfs and was worried to come home. but when i did about 5 hours later everything looked fine and there were almost no bugs to be seen I got out the turkey baster and tried to blow away the bugs to see if they were dead they normally cling for life and poof they blew away like dust nothing looked ill... I did lose 2 blue leg hermits and a red leg hermit and 2 red leggs survived.... but i have always had bad luck with hermits anyway...the next day the polyps were out all the way on all the corals minus the green acro but 3 days later the polyps that were on the bottom started to come out and just yesterday the tip statred to change color so i feel surprised and confident that everything will be fine..
as for the pods my sump/ fuge is still filled with them and i am waiting to see if the bugs come back I will have a better idea in a few weeks.... what i read about why it works is that interceptor cures mange on dogs mange is from small arthropds which are directly related to these red bugs it is all in detail at RC which i thought was very interesting
hth
Matthew