184g basement 8ft reef - Page 32

kien · #**311** 12-09-2015, 02:31 PM

I've always loved GSP macros.

Roskoreef · #**312** 12-15-2015, 11:08 PM

writing this update is giving me chest pains...

last night did a dose of sentinel for red bugs... most pods in main tank dead, lots of small ones alive in frag tank, one acro crab dead, thats it...cant see any red bugs anymore, clam is fine... sentinel worked well, maybe too well...

So now i could care less about these red bugs that i just paid a shutload for some sentinel pills and they are the least of my acro troubles, it seems the sucking ftupid black/purple bugs are invincible and have also devestated others acro colonies, from r2r it starts halfway down:

http://www.reef2reef.com/threads/an-....184192/page-7

these black bugs are eating all my acros, after the sentinel treatment, they flourished! most likely because of no competition on a food source, but with the exception of some new colonies, all my acros today are toast. all frags had bugs - garbage. in one night they exploded... all other corals and fish are great.

2 GALLONS of frags all infested this morning with rtn and a few colonies..

I have a bunch to frag and maybe recover if i got enough of them out but im pretty sure im dreaming..

What am i supposed to do with a decent size calcium reactor and zeovit and not many corals that like ulns, use it with super slowflow and changes stones half as much, or use half as much stones..

ugh..might just accept that im going to have a LPS dominant reef here soon..

anyways slowed down reactor and flow, might have some gyres for sale soon....

Quote:

Originally Posted by Myka

You know TOTM is a curse right? Everyone who gets it will have a bleaching or RTN event or w.h.y. That's why you've had the recent struggles.

man this TOTM curse got me hard...

Wretch · #**313** 12-16-2015, 12:46 AM

Man that sucks. Sorry to see that happen to your beautiful tank. Any idea what the purple things are?

Myka · #**314** 12-16-2015, 01:19 AM

Ugh that hurts to read.

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kien · #**315** 12-16-2015, 01:58 AM

That looks familiar. Been there. Done that. Got the wet t-shirt. Sorry to hear man :-(

Bugger · #**316** 12-16-2015, 02:05 AM

Oh man I don't even know what I would do. Makes me want to never buy another coral again

WarDog · #**317** 12-16-2015, 02:06 AM

Sorry to hear.

Myka · #**318** 12-16-2015, 03:05 AM

Wow, these black bugs are really scary! I've been reading about them...

Ginu · #**319** 12-16-2015, 08:13 PM

Sorry to hear that. I guess I was the one who pushed you to dip the coral see what bugs you had.

I don't know much about these black bugs, however they seem to be scary. Have you thought moving all the SPS to the FT and doing weekley dips? IT might be more efficient than dosing the DT.

Roskoreef · #**320** 12-16-2015, 09:01 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ginu

Sorry to hear that. I guess I was the one who pushed you to dip the coral see what bugs you had.

I don't know much about these black bugs, however they seem to be scary. Have you thought moving all the SPS to the FT and doing weekley dips? IT might be more efficient than dosing the DT.

Yup, i'm glad you did...otherwise i would have still been wondering... allthough those bugs came off in the dip, they definetly werent dead, and most seemed to burrow inside the skeleton. At the end of that r2r thread the guy finally killed them ( and 95% of the frags aswell) with a 400% bayer dip for 5 mins several times...

My FT is running off my DT atm so thats not gonna help i dont think, plus frag tank had the major infestation, dt is suffering slowly, but without the red bugs some acros may have a chance...