Interceptor Treatment Aftermath.....

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

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

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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.
 

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