Wondering out loud.

[christyf5]

I've always found it fascinating while doing a red bug treatment that I'm the only one whos nerves are frazzled and is experiencing anything out of the norm. The corals are all tickety boo, polyps expanded more fully now they don't have those pesky red bugs sucking back all their goodness. Fish are fishing around for food, constantly putting on a show as I sit and watch them (why won't she feed us?!). I haven't seen any pod corpses float by, then again my melanurus wrasse keeps the population pretty low I would imagine as he hunts them constantly. The only population I've seen is in my overflow which is fairly awkward to look at as its wedged in next to the wall.

As I loathe doing water changes (and yes I am going to do the 30% as planned, ugh) but what would happen if I didn't? If I just ran carbon and left the tank to do its thing. Does any one know how long interceptor is supposed to last in water?

BTW, I don't have a sandbed so I don't expect the die off that Marie speculated might have attributed to her algae problems after treating with Interceptor.