Red bugs and treating them

[Hunna’s Stunnas]

Uneventful update. Didn’t see a single red bug after the first treatment. Still did 2 more just to be safe. I moved both frags back into my 40b ~10 days ago, where they are loving real lighting from my Hydra 64 HD that’s on that side

I also picked up my replacement TCG Cherry Bomb frag from the original seller that I’ve made friends with

and for a bonus, when I was at his house picking it up I took some shots around his tank of his insane SPS collection. Here are a few of my favorites

 

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Should rename this to… my photo gallery!
Anyways, u want a red bug treatment… but arnt willing to do what it takes.
Inverts are easy to catch.
Trap em on a fat piece of food and drop em in that small tank u got.
Blast that tank 3 times 7 days apart from each dose and call it a day.
It’s that simple.
Photographing the frags every x amount of days etc seems like such a hassle imo.

 

[Hunna’s Stunnas]

Should rename this to… my photo gallery!
Anyways, u want a red bug treatment… but arnt willing to do what it takes.
Inverts are easy to catch.
Trap em on a fat piece of food and drop em in that small tank u got.
Blast that tank 3 times 7 days apart from each dose and call it a day.
It’s that simple.
Photographing the frags every x amount of days etc seems like such a hassle imo.

I swear reading comprehension skills are no longer existent. There are no red bugs in my 40b. They never spread from the 3 original frags that were introduced then pulled within 24 hours. I pulled the infected frags and treated them accordingly. I have weeks of photographs to back this, which wasn’t a hassle whatsoever as I am always taking pictures around my tanks.

Do I need to provide a picture of every coral for people like you to accept how I handled my particular situation was effective? Had they stayed in my 40b longer, they probably would’ve spread more. Had they not been on an isolated frag rack, and next to more acros, they probably would have spread more. That wasn’t the case though. It was 3
frags by themselves, on their own rack until they were put in my QT tank that had/has no other acros.

 

[Hunna’s Stunnas]

Since so many people seem to think they know my tank better than I do, and that there’s no way how I handled my particular situation was correct, and that there’s no way whatsoever that the red bugs didn’t spread from 3 frags on an isolated frag rack and traveled across glass/sand/open water to *maybe* make it to another acropora.

Even disregarding what a quick google says about the situation, you’re trying to tell me an animal that caps out at .5mm in size (most are unable to see them with their bare eyes) traveled the equivalent of miles to us, in hopes of possibly finding another suitable acropora that they HAVE to have to survive. And did so by crossing glass, sand, or free swimming through the water column.

Somehow, all of that is more believable than me catching them before they had a chance to even attempt all of that, isolated them into a tank with no other acropora for them to try to move to, and then treated them accordingly? I have 2 months worth of photos backing up what Google says, but a stranger on the internet somehow knows my tank and situation better than I do?

 

[exnisstech]

Just using that camera and card reader you see behind it. Best camera for the hobby imo.

It’s a great little camera capable of quite a bit all on its own

Camera is just a tool. Its the photographer that gets the results. I can see improvements in your images from a year ago. Not that they were bad then but better now. Well done.

 

[fish_collector]

Since so many people seem to think they know my tank better than I do, and that there’s no way how I handled my particular situation was correct, and that there’s no way whatsoever that the red bugs didn’t spread from 3 frags on an isolated frag rack and traveled across glass/sand/open water to *maybe* make it to another acropora.

Even disregarding what a quick google says about the situation, you’re trying to tell me an animal that caps out at .5mm in size (most are unable to see them with their bare eyes) traveled the equivalent of miles to us, in hopes of possibly finding another suitable acropora that they HAVE to have to survive. And did so by crossing glass, sand, or free swimming through the water column.

Somehow, all of that is more believable than me catching them before they had a chance to even attempt all of that, isolated them into a tank with no other acropora for them to try to move to, and then treated them accordingly? I have 2 months worth of photos backing up what Google says, but a stranger on the internet somehow knows my tank and situation better than I do?

I don’t know your tank, never seen it although you have posted some great photos of your acropora. I think you are confusing the point of my original post, which was to point out that you unknowingly put something in your tank that had pests, and turned it into an insult. I will say you may have dodged a bullet, good for you that’s great, I wish I had that kind of luck with some of the things I’ve had to do to my acropora. Im talking in generalizations about red bugs, I’ve had them, thousands of us have had them. They get transferred from hobbyist to hobbyist on frags exactly like has happened to you, it’s no big deal they don’t cause anything but lack of polyp extension, usually. The cure is a simple one as long as one can obtain the right meds. A dip in KCl or CoralRx would kill them outright before any of this occurred but like me and many before, we will sometimes put things into our tank because we are overly comfortable that the tank they came from was clean. It’s a poor choice but we’ve all done it.

I have no desire to continue the debate with you, perhaps I shouldn’t have mentioned a situation with red bugs in an AEFW thread. It was never my intention to insult anyone or their decisions surrounding what they do with their tank. But as I said in another thread, I do know what I’m talking about. In general, putting anything into one’s tank for even just a moment is reason enough to believe that what’s there is there. I’ll leave with a simple question: would you willingly put an acro frag with red bugs into your tank right now, and take it back out tomorrow?

fish_collector

 

[Hunna’s Stunnas]

I don’t know your tank, never seen it although you have posted some great photos of your acropora. I think you are confusing the point of my original post, which was to point out that you unknowingly put something in your tank that had pests, and turned it into an insult. I will say you may have dodged a bullet, good for you that’s great, I wish I had that kind of luck with some of the things I’ve had to do to my acropora. Im talking in generalizations about red bugs, I’ve had them, thousands of us have had them. They get transferred from hobbyist to hobbyist on frags exactly like has happened to you, it’s no big deal they don’t cause anything but lack of polyp extension, usually. The cure is a simple one as long as one can obtain the right meds. A dip in KCl or CoralRx would kill them outright before any of this occurred but like me and many before, we will sometimes put things into our tank because we are overly comfortable that the tank they came from was clean. It’s a poor choice but we’ve all done it.

I have no desire to continue the debate with you, perhaps I shouldn’t have mentioned a situation with red bugs in an AEFW thread. It was never my intention to insult anyone or their decisions surrounding what they do with their tank. But as I said in another thread, I do know what I’m talking about. In general, putting anything into one’s tank for even just a moment is reason enough to believe that what’s there is there. I’ll leave with a simple question: would you willingly put an acro frag with red bugs into your tank right now, and take it back out tomorrow?

fish_collector

Knowing what I know now, I’d have no problem putting it into a tank on its own frag rack away from any other acropora for 24 hours.

You are absolutely correct in that I should have dipped them and put them into my QT tank first. Lesson learned. It was late when I got home with the 3 frags originally. And if you had seen the tank they came from you would have never expected them to be there in the first place. The polyp extension on all of his acros were great. But that isn’t my issue here.

My issue is unsolicited “advice” from people that was never asked for. All I was doing with this thread was tracking MY situation and how I was handling it. At no point did I ask for opinions on how to proceed. Said “advice” also mentioned them having “free will” and being able to travel on their own. Sure, to an extent. But again, a completely unreasonable expectation from such a tiny creature which requires very specific environmental conditions to survive. Then doubling down against photographic evidence and easily obtained information. Thats what’s wild to me.