Interceptor Treatment Aftermath.....

[Addicted2Acro]

I have an acro heavy tank that is about 8 months old. The tank was looking really great pre-interceptor. Have about 8 torches, 8 gonis, and maybe 30 acros all doing really well. However, we found one acro to have white bugs and decided to do interceptor treatment because the white bugs were likely not only on that one frag. Did 3 treatments over 3 weeks and now done. its been 5 days since last treatment and dinos have exploded. I have a UV running all the time and I added like 6 gallons of pods back into the tank.

Firstly, I added the pods 2 days ago and I cannot see a single pod in the tank. And I literally added 6 or 7 gallons worth. A F-ton of pods and I see nothing on the glass or in the sump. So I am a little worried I added them too soon and the interceptor killed them all. Secondly, corals look unhappy. Torches polyps are not extended. Gonis look fine actually. A lot of the acros polyp extension looks really good, but their skeleton looks pale on a lot of them. Especially I have noticed that where they are encrusting the plug has begun to look very pale.

I am not sure if it is just the dinos toxicity that is making everyone unhappy or if its the lack of biodiversity caused by the interceptor. Looking for feedback.

 

[Addicted2Acro]

Also....I am running carbon to remove dino toxins.

 

[Minifoot77]

I had something similar when I did a chemiclean treatment. I just ordered 10 lbs of kp aquatics base rock

 

[Sm1nts2escape]

I just beat Ostreopsis Dinos in my tank and one of the first things I noticed when getting dinos is that my pods disappeared.

 

[slingfox]

Sounds like you need to go into Dino treatment protocol. There are many threads on this board on that. Keep monitoring parameters and start the manual removal/UV/silicate dosing/bottled bacteria dosing, etc. and the Dino’s should gradually subside. This can take several weeks or a month or more.

 

[Addicted2Acro]

I just beat Ostreopsis Dinos in my tank and one of the first things I noticed when getting dinos is that my pods disappeared.

how did you beat them?

 

[Acrononomus]

Do u feel like your nitrate and phosphate is low? Or is that where it always is?

 

[Sm1nts2escape]

how did you beat them?

Heavily turkey basting multiple times a day for a month straight or so. Letting the rollermat catch it all. Usage was through the roof almost 300" a day. Turned up skimmer so it was wet skimming more than usual. Had to dump the cup once a day. Dosing Peroxide multiple times a day 2ml per 10g. lights off several times for 2-3 days. keep pumps clean so lots of flow. Hooked up ozone to tank and ran it as much as I could. As soon as the fish start flashing turn it down some. replaced carbon every two days to keep the corals/fish happy.

 

[Chaos reef]

Unfortunately I can relate. I've had similar experiences with interceptor treatment multiple times and it always is a crap shoot when you're done! Personally I had issues with pods and crabs dying for weeks after treatment until I changed over 50 percent water volume. That said I did treat at 11x recommended dosage so I was a bit heavy with the meds... lol dinos and cyano followed and after all of it, acro bugs are still there. So I super wish you luck! I truly hope you have better luck than I did!