Greetings fellow reefers,
with great sadness my first post has to be about something so grim.
I have a nanocube 40l with a mixed reef.
Everything has been going fine for 2 years, I haven't added anything for a year.
A few days back I started to notice STN on my Acro strawberry shortcake, Monti cap. and Psammocora watermelon.
I inspected the corals under a microscope in a search for a pest and on all 3 I found what other describe as black bugs. Small copepod creatures that hide in polyps cavities and eat away at flesh.
I immediately started looking for a cure and it seems like this is one of the worst pests to encounter in a reef tank. A nightmare.
I tried hypersalinity dip, concentrated betadine dip and DipX from redsea and even transfer the rocks into a tank with a pastel green wrasse.
Nothing seems to work and I can not get my hands on the US available Dr. G's dips. I'm also scared that some of the chemicals such as Milbemycin oxine would kill the rest of my lps and softs.
Please if someone has any tips, I would greatly appreciate it.
Thanks.
with great sadness my first post has to be about something so grim.
I have a nanocube 40l with a mixed reef.
Everything has been going fine for 2 years, I haven't added anything for a year.
A few days back I started to notice STN on my Acro strawberry shortcake, Monti cap. and Psammocora watermelon.
I inspected the corals under a microscope in a search for a pest and on all 3 I found what other describe as black bugs. Small copepod creatures that hide in polyps cavities and eat away at flesh.
I immediately started looking for a cure and it seems like this is one of the worst pests to encounter in a reef tank. A nightmare.
I tried hypersalinity dip, concentrated betadine dip and DipX from redsea and even transfer the rocks into a tank with a pastel green wrasse.
Nothing seems to work and I can not get my hands on the US available Dr. G's dips. I'm also scared that some of the chemicals such as Milbemycin oxine would kill the rest of my lps and softs.
Please if someone has any tips, I would greatly appreciate it.
Thanks.