Red bugs

[BMW Rider]

Originally Posted by EmilyB

I'm not seeing any acro problems that would indicate treatment at this point so I'll just hold off for now. Ed, did you have any other frags in the QT with mine? Just curious since I don't seem to see any problems at this end.

I did have another frag in the QT, but there were never any bugs on it. I left it in until I treated since I couldn't be sure they hadn't moved over to it. I never did see any on it though. The frag from you did extend its polyps finally after the bugs were gone, the other frag always had its polyps well expanded. I'm just moving both into my tank now as there is no sign of any more bugs. Just so you know, they are extremely tiny and difficult to see without magnification. My coral QT tank is only a 2.5 gallon, so I could get a pretty close up view - only a few inches away. I could just make them out moving around on the coral. From normal viewing distances in a tank, it might be very hard to see them. Under 10x magnification of the coral, I could make out the distinct red spot that is characteristic of these bugs, but they still appeared small. There were actually quite a few of them once you got the close up view.

Here is a picture I got of a branch of the coral with the bugs to give you some idea as to how hard they are to see. The little amber specks are the bugs. They actually were moving around quite a bit, which is really the thing that helped me to spot them. Had they been still, I might have totally missed them.