Interceptor

[Acrononomus]

Hello this will be my first time dosing interceptor and I am nervous. I have about 100 diffrent acro frags currently. This will just be precautionary as I do not have another system for quarantine. I have dipped everything coming in that did not come from a very reputable source.

My question is who has used the soft chew version with praziqul in it. It was the only version I could source online without going to a vet.

I am nervous because I have a ton of bristle worms in my tank. I mean thousands. I am worried the die off may cause some sort of spike in nutrients or ammonia. I plan to dose 1 pill for a roughly 300 gallon water volume.

Please let me know your experience .

 

[slingfox]

One large 23mg pill treats 275g of water volume at 1x dose. Many hardcore SPS folks seems to do 4x or more nowadays. You’ll definitely get some die off of worms and copepods so make sure you have a rollermat or are changing out your filter sock consistently during treatment.

If you want to go with the low 1.0x dose you should consider dissolving in ethyl alcohol. That apparently allows the interceptor to be more effective (I believe I heard this on a podcast Than from Tidal Gardens was on but I may be mixing up the guests).

I also only have access to the milbemycin + Prazi version. My last treatment was 4.4x dose once a week for 5 weeks. I didn’t have any unexpected issues. I had a small case of Dino’s at the end but I got rid of them in 3 days with limited effort.

You should also find a way to grind up the pill effectively. I use a small metal mortar & pestle from Amazon.

Be sure to dose at night since the UV from your lights degrades the active ingredient. My fighting conch start to recover after 16 hours or so at my 4.4x dose. Next time I treat I plan to move my conch to my QT tank.