Safe Interceptor Dose | Coral Boring Spionid Worms.

[Dburr1014]

I inspected my tank today and looked high and low for spionid worms. They are everywhere. Lps, SPS, and just generally in the rock. Here are a few pictures. They are very small but if you blow up on the pictures you can see there two antennas.
I don't think I can pick and choose which rock to dose. I'm going to have to do the whole shebang. I think I'll grab a couple of colonies that aren't doing well anyway and try to come up with some kind of a dose. I really don't want to wait a month after dosing if it's embedded in the rock. I think my best course of action is three tubs. One for dosing, one for rinsing, and one for the carbon. If the dose takes an hour or two, my rinse might be a lot quicker like 30 minutes, and my carbon would probably be a couple hours also or maybe overnight.

 

[Minifoot77]

I inspected my tank today and looked high and low for spionid worms. They are everywhere. Lps, SPS, and just generally in the rock. Here are a few pictures. They are very small but if you blow up on the pictures you can see there two antennas.
I don't think I can pick and choose which rock to dose. I'm going to have to do the whole shebang. I think I'll grab a couple of colonies that aren't doing well anyway and try to come up with some kind of a dose. I really don't want to wait a month after dosing if it's embedded in the rock. I think my best course of action is three tubs. One for dosing, one for rinsing, and one for the carbon. If the dose takes an hour or two, my rinse might be a lot quicker like 30 minutes, and my carbon would probably be a couple hours also or maybe overnight.

Let us know how it goes im still researching for my dip as well I just bought 1% ivermectin today

 

[Dburr1014]

Of I get some time tonight or tomorrow I'll try to dose a hammer colony that went south. It's been hanging on but only has 2 or 3 heads left. It has the worms but don't know if that caused the decline. If that is successful we'll go on to an sps colony.

I set up a 1.5 gallon tank last night. I will start at one drop. I will ramp up drop by drop every 15 minutes? Maybe 30? I want to see them dying when I stop dosing.

 

[Dburr1014]

As much as I hate to disappoint, I threw the hammer in a 1.5 gallon tank with a heater and a powerhead and dosed Ivermectin first with four drops and at the last 15 minutes I dosed another four drops. The problem I realize is that these are not spionid worms on the hammer. They are vermetid Snails.






So I looked through my entire system and I do have spionid worms but they are on rather large pieces of rock and coral. The problem is I don't have a very big vessel that's clear to take videos and pictures. Now that my tank is coming in approximately 2 weeks I'm just going to have to bite the bullet and do the large pieces without trying to come up with a dose. I think I'm just going to go with two milliliters per gallon.

I dislodged all the vermetid Snails I saw and i put the hammer back in the display and am hour later the bubble bee snails are having a feast.

 

[Sisterlimonpot]

@Dburr1014 did the ivermectin kill the vermited?

 

[Dburr1014]

@Dburr1014 did the ivermectin kill the vermited?

No, they were irritated and squirming but no death. I went to 8 drops total.
I ended up picking all the ones off I could off that particular Coral.

 

[fushi]

What does everyone think about mixing KCL with Ivermectin as a dip? Maybe @Randy Holmes-Farley could give us any thoughts about reactions we should be concerned about when mixing the two.
I was thinking about using these products in particular.
Mectin
KCL



I have also ordered some Imidacloprid to try as a replacement for bayer as it is one of the two active ingredients in bayer (BioAdvance). The other active ingredient is beta cyfluthrin a pyrethroid but I figured I’d try the imidacloprid first. Maybe Imidacloprid with ivermectin could be a good dip option too.

 

[Dburr1014]

Now, the crazy! After seven hours on Saturday, which at the that time was around 7:30pm I dosed my 500 gallon acropora DT with Ivermectin. I dosed the whole 50ml bottle, which comes out to 1ml per 12-14 gallons of system water.


If anyone decides to try this as an in tank treatment, then I would recommend the following:

1. 1ml for every 25 Gallons.
2. Run treatment in the morning and perform water changes via the skimmer after two hours.
2. Remove fish before treatment, if possible.
3. Make sure you have enough aeration during treatment
4. Make sure you have enough make up for water changes
5. DON'T BE LIKE ME AND DOSE THIS THE SAME DAY AS A PESTICIDE!

I will update this thread with pictures later and try to clean up the timeline of events, etc. I will update as the process continues.

@JCOLE
How is your system doing after this treatment. It's been a little while now and I'm hoping for an update. How are your fish, inverts, general biome? Have you noticed any changes in anything?

My new tank is here and all plumbed. I'm leaving for Bogota in a couple days for a week and when I get back it's show time. I gotta say, I'm a little nervous.
I went back through some posts just to refresh my mind what needs to be done but have a couple questions.

Looking at your math, 50ml for your 500 gallons. So that's 5ml per 50 gallons OR 1ml per 10 gallons. You think that was too much and think 1ml per 25 is better to shoot for. Correct?
I'm going to do this in a seperate vessel. Out of the display and into the vessel. I'm pretty sure I'm going to set up two rinsing vessels also with the last one having GAC. 1 hour dip, 1 hour rinse, and ? hours rinse with GAC. Not sure how long to leave it with GAC. Coral will need to go back under the light at least after a couple days. Maybe overnight in the GAC? I can always do a tester snail. IDK.