White bugs Acropora id

Charlie’s Frags · Dec 24, 2021

madlos123 said:
40 gallon. I got the yellow box or 11 mg. 3 of them. Either i cut one pill and dose 1/3 a pill (regular dose) once a week for 3 weeks or do 1 pill (3x dose) once a week for 3 weeks.

I do 1/2 of the 23mg pill per 50g….so 11.5mg

vetteguy53081 · Dec 24, 2021

Interceptor mainly used for black bags. These do respond to normal dip such as CoralRX

madlos123 · Dec 24, 2021

How about the red sea dip? Ig i can start with a dip. Any experience
I dont have coralrx

Charlie’s Frags · Dec 24, 2021

madlos123 said:
How about the red sea dip? Ig i can start with a dip. Any experience
I dont have coralrx

I bought and tested that dip and used it the 15 minutes per the instructions and it burned the test sps. I didn’t see anything come off bc my tank is pest free but it didn’t perform as advertised (harmless to sps). But just dipping won’t help much bc the bugs will just swarm again when the coral is placed back in the system. You need to treat the entire system

madlos123 · Dec 24, 2021

Yeah i dipped it only for 5 min and yeah the amphipods and bristleworms we're not moving anymore. Definitely very strong. Only dipped 4 test corals for 5 min. Compared to Revive dip i used before and even at 15 min with Revive Amphipods were still moving.
Ill do the treatment tomorrow with interceptor

Charlie’s Frags · Dec 24, 2021

madlos123 said:
Yeah i dipped it only for 5 min and yeah the amphipods and bristleworms we're not moving anymore. Definitely very strong. Only dipped 4 test corals for 5 min. Compared to Revive dip i used before and even at 15 min with Revive Amphipods were still moving.
Ill do the treatment tomorrow with interceptor

Take the cup off your skimmer and remove any mechanical filtration and activated carbon or gfo etc. I turn off my uv sterilizer as well.

madlos123 · Dec 24, 2021

4 test corals of acropora are already having polyp extention so thats a good sign that it didnt burn the corals for 5 min of the dip.

RMS18 · Jan 3, 2022

Sorry to hijack, where is everyone getting interceptor when you don't have a dog? I called a few vets and explained and they are not able to help. I have white bugs now and need to treat the tank.

ScottB · Jan 3, 2022

RMS18 said:
Sorry to hijack, where is everyone getting interceptor when you don't have a dog? I called a few vets and explained and they are not able to help. I have white bugs now and need to treat the tank.

If you strike out as many times as I did, I guess you can reach out to Steve who set me up.

Most vets gave me a fast "Nope" but one finally turned me on to Steve, a licensed aquatic veterinarian. He prescribed enough for 3 X 2X treatments for 450G. Invoiced for just short of $400 consult and prescription. If money is an issue, you may be able to order some from Canada online somehow. Sorry, no details on that.

Stephen Frattini, DVM
Owner/President
Center For Aquatic Animal Research and Management
(CFAARM)
[email protected]
http://cfaarm.org
(646) 844-4104 (P)
(646) 354-3673(C)

RMS18 · Jan 3, 2022

ScottB said:
If you strike out as many times as I did, I guess you can reach out to Steve who set me up.

Most vets gave me a fast "Nope" but one finally turned me on to Steve, a licensed aquatic veterinarian. He prescribed enough for 3 X 2X treatments for 450G. Invoiced for just short of $400 consult and prescription. If money is an issue, you may be able to order some from Canada online somehow. Sorry, no details on that.

Stephen Frattini, DVM
Owner/President
Center For Aquatic Animal Research and Management
(CFAARM)
[email protected]
http://cfaarm.org
(646) 844-4104 (P)
(646) 354-3673(C)

Thanks for the info! Unfortunately I have been on a good amount of Canadian sites and they now state rx only.

LOVEROCK · Jan 3, 2022

is this the right one ?

LOVEROCK · Jan 3, 2022

ScottB said:
If you strike out as many times as I did, I guess you can reach out to Steve who set me up.

Most vets gave me a fast "Nope" but one finally turned me on to Steve, a licensed aquatic veterinarian. He prescribed enough for 3 X 2X treatments for 450G. Invoiced for just short of $400 consult and prescription. If money is an issue, you may be able to order some from Canada online somehow. Sorry, no details on that.

Stephen Frattini, DVM
Owner/President
Center For Aquatic Animal Research and Management
(CFAARM)
[email protected]
http://cfaarm.org
(646) 844-4104 (P)
(646) 354-3673(C)

How many pills did you get ?

ScottB · Jan 4, 2022

LOVEROCK said:
How many pills did you get ?

IIRC, it was 2 X packages of large dog, so a total of 12 pills. He provided very detailed dosing instructions as well.

Pulverize, mix with hot RODI, smells delicious.

trmiv · Mar 10, 2022

So bumping this back up since I appear to have these on some acros and no luck with getting interceptor. Anyone have any luck getting it anywhere else? I found bestvetcare.com which sells MILBEMAX and joes pet meds which sells generic sentinel. Neither ask for a prescription. The generic sentinel though is Milbemycin oxime & Lufenuron and I have no idea what effect Lufenuron would have on a display.

ScottB · Mar 10, 2022

trmiv said:
So bumping this back up since I appear to have these on some acros and no luck with getting interceptor. Anyone have any luck getting it anywhere else? I found bestvetcare.com which sells MILBEMAX and joes pet meds which sells generic sentinel. Neither ask for a prescription. The generic sentinel though is Milbemycin oxime & Lufenuron and I have no idea what effect Lufenuron would have on a display.

I cannot speak to Lufenuron, sorry. Steve was able to hook me up.

ScottB said:
If you strike out as many times as I did, I guess you can reach out to Steve who set me up.

Most vets gave me a fast "Nope" but one finally turned me on to Steve, a licensed aquatic veterinarian. He prescribed enough for 3 X 2X treatments for 450G. Invoiced for just short of $400 consult and prescription. If money is an issue, you may be able to order some from Canada online somehow. Sorry, no details on that.

Stephen Frattini, DVM
Owner/President
Center For Aquatic Animal Research and Management
(CFAARM)
[email protected]
http://cfaarm.org
(646) 844-4104 (P)
(646) 354-3673(C)

ceaver · Mar 22, 2022

welp, I'll go ahead and jump on this recent reawakening of this thread, as I just discovered some white bugs eating some acros. I have ordered Dr. G's dip, with the same active ingredient as interceptor, and begun dosing it to my whole tank. I just did first dose yesterday, 1 ml/gal, removed filter pads and turned off carbon reactor. Replaced pads and turned on reactor today. Will do a 30% water change tomorrow (still trying to get rid of some bad Tropic Marin salt in there too). I'll do this two more times, spaced out one week each time, and think I'll do 2 ml/gal the next times. I'll report back on how it goes...

Graffiti Spot · Mar 24, 2022

Show up in person, do not call, and bring documents and information on acropora bugs and interceptor treatments showing that no harm comes from the treatments, this is what they are scared they will be liable for because they don’t understand. Always ask to talk to the owner or head doctor. Talk to them about what’s going on and explain how other vets are very hard to deal with and your running out of options. Always try the mom and pop vets first because they don’t have the strict guidelines that chain vet clinics have to follow.