Black Bugs?!

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Hoping these aren’t what I fear they are? I have stylos, pocillpora and montis not looking so good. Stylos and pocollpora have been STN from the base up. Looks like grains of pepper. Dipped in 16 oz water to capful of melafix.

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Good news is that, with the help of @Jettareefer223 I ran the first interceptor treatment without to any issues. One question I have is around the QT of the inverts. My assumption is that I leave them in QT for the duration of the treatments. Black Bugs that were lucky enough to escape warfare may have went into the QT on a snail shell\hermit crab. Do these guys get starved out by the lack of corals to munch on?
 
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So I did three rounds in July and I had a second case in mid Sept. Second case I did 6 rounds 7-10 days apart. I haven’t seen any since. Around the end my of my 4th treatment on round 2, my alkalinity increase went up by 400%. After that haven’t seen or had any further issues. Although literally yesterday I post some critter pictures of some pods I see in my coral QT tank (which I’ve been having fair amount of issues with). I see a smilar black looking bug and a normal look pod. Everyone comment on isopod, but still has me wondering.


 

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