You wouldn't have to treat the sump then.No I have a new one in the works
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You wouldn't have to treat the sump then.No I have a new one in the works
I figured I'd treat the whole system because its probably gonna get restarted just down the roadYou wouldn't have to treat the sump then.
Oh no, you dosed it in your Reef?Hi all,
I picked up coral boring worms from a vendor here in the UK. The population grew much much faster than any other I have experienced before.
I reached out to a vet here for a prescription of Ivermectin. We had a lengthy discussion and he agreed with the protocol of 1ml per US gallon of 1% Ivermectin (Noromectin in my case).
I started a full tank treatment about 45min ago.
All of my pods, bristle worms, limpets and starfish are dead. The spionid infestation looks dead and they are hanging out of the tubes very limply. Spirorbid worms appear to still be alive.
I have quite a variety of fish in the tank, so far the only one showing distress is an anthia. My wrasse appeared to be in trouble but rebounded after about 15min.
To the person that suspected this may damage flatworms, you deserve a gold star…I didn’t know I had any flatworms. I do, or did.
Ivermectin seems to be incredibly harsh, but I don’t believe this is necessarily a bad thing. Time will tell over the next 24hrs.
Hi all,
I picked up coral boring worms from a vendor here in the UK. The population grew much much faster than any other I have experienced before.
I reached out to a vet here for a prescription of Ivermectin. We had a lengthy discussion and he agreed with the protocol of 1ml per US gallon of 1% Ivermectin (Noromectin in my case).
I started a full tank treatment about 45min ago.
All of my pods, bristle worms, limpets and starfish are dead. The spionid infestation looks dead and they are hanging out of the tubes very limply. Spirorbid worms appear to still be alive.
I have quite a variety of fish in the tank, so far the only one showing distress is an anthia. My wrasse appeared to be in trouble but rebounded after about 15min.
To the person that suspected this may damage flatworms, you deserve a gold star…I didn’t know I had any flatworms. I do, or did.
Ivermectin seems to be incredibly harsh, but I don’t believe this is necessarily a bad thing. Time will tell over the next 24hrs.
Have you seen any more copepods? Or did it wipe everything out? Did you check nitrates or ammonia? Alk consumption?Let’s start with the good, the bad and the ugly. I am not going to sugarcoat it.
Ugly: Fish have continued to die. The concentration I used is not safe for fish. They enter a paralytic state but will eventually die.
Bad: It is difficult to remove from the water column. A hydrophobic scum gets formed in the skimmer and on the water surface, also along the edges of the glass. I cannot guess how much is actually being removed at this point. Still to be noted as this progresses.
Good: It did what it was intended to, it kills boring worms very very well. My tank became worm soup, I had severely underestimated the amount of worms in the tank. I think there was 5x more than what I had assumed. It killed flatworms, I didn’t know I had flatworms and this is a tank I spend around 2hrs per day staring into. Corals are 100% unaffected, they get annoyed but have bounced back entirely .
So I have a few thoughts on this.
Would I do this again? Yes, but I would remove all fish and snails to a separate body of water.
I firmly don’t believe that dipping individual corals is a viable method of removing boring worms. I had far more dead worms than inhabited my corals lending credence to the worms being everywhere in an aquarium.
The flatworms have surprised and concerned me. I have never seen one in this tank until yesterday.
The loss of fish is self inflicted but still disheartening.
Despite that all, I think ivermectin is going to become a favourite tool for all reef keepers for prophylactic treatment of all new corals.
@Sisterlimonpot
Rich, I can’t tell you if the vermetids I have are dead or not, they were very agitated by the treatment and some appear to be hanging from the tubes but that isn’t to say they are dead. Give me a couple of days and I will let you know if this did kill them. Bear in mind I used a ridiculous concentration of 1ml per US gallon.
To everyone I am very much open to feedback and a discussion on this.