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Old 01-11-2005, 07:28 AM   #11 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by VINA DEL MAR
Wow David I'm impress how your tank looks now!Red bugs are in fashion now everybody has them.I heard good thing about interceptor but some reefers claim that it also kills other lives including start fishes and acro crabs.I have no idea if it's harmful to beneficial bacteria.
For some reason my yellow acros were affected with red bugs but 3 months later after some acro crabs moved in they (bugs) were gone!
I'm thinking that perhaps these acro crabs helped the clean-up of the red pest?
Have anyone noticed this?
BTW the colors of the corals are nice!And also the water is so clear.

VINA
You shouldn't have any problems with it killing your fish.
I did treatment a while ago, but got the bugs again through some trading. you will loss shrimp and crabs that are in the tank. Take out whatever shrimp and crabs you have, do your treatment, I would recomend tryring to keep those fellas somewhere until you do all three treatments.
My acro crabs did nothing to help the bugs. In fact my granulosa colony rtn'ed from the bugs and there as a crab in it. After the colony was fragged up he moved into my monti digitata, go figure an acro crab living in a monti...
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