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The common thought is that red bugs lay eggs which is why you do the 3 week treatment. Interceptor apparently only kills the adults and not the eggs. I have seen the egg sacs on the corals so I am more inclined to go along with the common thoughts on them. We put our second treatment in last...

Looks like a good plan, just a note on the sexy shrimp they are really really small and might get lost even in an 8g tank. Peppermints might be a good solution as they are bigger but still small enough for an 8g tank.

Furan II is a anti bacterial medication for fresh fish (I think) that was first used for corals treating zoa pox. Right now it is the only cure for zoa pox out there and has been used successfully for treating zoas with bacterial problems. I had used it to dip some zoas succesfully and it had...

A few weeks ago we found out we had redbugs in our 20g tank and we needed to treat them. I figured I would do a quick write up of our experience and keep updating until the tank is clear. Getting the gift that keeps on giving: We lost power for two days during one of the heavy snowstorms which...

Do you have any other fish in the tank? Depending on what else you have in there/or want to put in there will depend if you can keep the helfrichi. It might be ok either alone or with a small goby.

We had a CBS snip a cleaner goby in half and then eat him in front of us. That was a fun one to watch. If the goby is a bigger one I don't think you will have a problem, the cleaner goby was very small.

I know there is only and hour left in the day, but Happy Birthday. Thank you for dropping off the name tags on your birthday.

Ken did talk about this today and essentially he said RTN is a bacterial infection that no one really has a cure for. It can be spread by fish or inverts touching the infected corals and transferring it to others. Fragging is the best solution right now. I had a birdsnest that was starting to...

Thank you to every one who showed up and a welcome to the new members who signed up on the spot to the club. It was a fun and educational event and it was great to see everybody.

Re: Here's my now 375 (was 120) by Bax Well that is good to know, we have some iodine as well that we add occasionally.

Happy birthday Brian!!

Dave did an awesome job down in the DIY forum detalining his project: http://www.njreefers.org/joomla/index.php?option=com_smf&Itemid=26&topic=22421.0

Re: Here's my now 375 (was 120) by Bax If you think the dosing might go on for longer you can substitue BW Elemental for most of what you are dosing. You get calcium, magnesium, stronitum and potassium in one dose. Save you some time and money.

If they are small I like peppermints. You can several of them and it really won't impact anything in your tank. I have never used the nudis so I have no advice there. My peppermints eat some fish food but they also keep the aiptasia down.

Most LFS carry some sort of pods. Tigger pods are the most common, I like DT's pods personally. Reef pods are supposed to be pretty good will be trying them out when my local LFS gets them in to kickstart the tank after an interceptor treatment.

You may lose some of the "life" on the liverock (pods, micro stars or inverts) but it will have no ill effect on the coral or live rock.

It looks like an intestine. Wow never seen one of those before, might be a long night Sid.

The pictures are motivation to get a camera, everything looks great.

I just started a red bug treatment yesterday and asked the same question. If you can't get them out, I was told that it will stun them but probably won't kill them. Another reefer on here dosed with coral banded shrimp in the display and did not kill them. I pulled out our cleaner shrimp but it...

Big thanks to Bob and the rest of the conservation committee for putting this together. Had great weather and had a very fun time. Still trying to figure out how a fire extinguisher got on the beach, but it is there no longer.