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Old 10-28-2005, 10:10 PM
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the interceptor has been ordered, i got a voicemail today from the vet, im not sure how much he ordered, ill find out.
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Old 10-28-2005, 10:17 PM
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Would you treat your tank with anything if you saw them on one of your corals? What is this treatment and what is it's potential to damage other life in the tank? (particularly other "bugs")
How closely do you inspect your corals? I look, I like, I buy. I didn't used to think they needed to be inspected that thoroughly. I didn't even notice them until someone posted that they had them, showed pictures and said how small they were. Then I looked really REALLY closely and there they were. Now I do inspect and treat all sps going into my tank.

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the interceptor has been ordered, i got a voicemail today from the vet, im not sure how much he ordered, ill find out.
dude give me a call once you get it or when it gets to your vets.. i'm getting the rest of my stuff this weekend would love to treat them all at the same time 778-881-2245
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Why wouldn't OA be more active in getting rid of them? Certainly, they could offer to dip any coral before they sell it....

Would you treat your tank with anything if you saw them on one of your corals? What is this treatment and what is it's potential to damage other life in the tank? (particularly other "bugs")
If you are looking at getting acro's or have them, start reading!

I think it would be safe to say that if you didn't know about the bugs and you have acros, then you probably have them already. Almost every acro frag I have got on a trade had them.

So get yourself some interceptor!
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But healthy larger pieces need not worry IMO
I disagree. I lost several mature colonies, apparently to the bugs. Upon dipping in iodine, I had thousands come off the colonies. IMO, all acropora are at risk from these bugs.
got something to think about, are you sure you didn't have the flat worms all that time also and the they are what killed your acros instead of the red bugs?

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Why wouldn't OA be more active in getting rid of them? Certainly, they could offer to dip any coral before they sell it....
money, it would cost a lot for a comercial store to treat as they would have to do all there tanks at once and anything cool, like acro crabs, would be killed off. also the cost of waterchanges alone would be though the roof.

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Why wouldn't OA be more active in getting rid of them? Certainly, they could offer to dip any coral before they sell it....
money, it would cost a lot for a comercial store to treat as they would have to do all there tanks at once and anything cool, like acro crabs, would be killed off. also the cost of waterchanges alone would be though the roof.

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Plus they would have to treat every coral coming in as well, thats alot of work at 2am or whatever odd time they come in at the airport.
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Why wouldn't OA be more active in getting rid of them? Certainly, they could offer to dip any coral before they sell it....
money, it would cost a lot for a comercial store to treat as they would have to do all there tanks at once and anything cool, like acro crabs, would be killed off. also the cost of waterchanges alone would be though the roof.

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Plus they would have to treat every coral coming in as well, thats alot of work at 2am or whatever odd time they come in at the airport.
yup, but why are we discussing this in a reagional club forum, maybe it should be moved to "reef"

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because it was an offer of interceptor to Vancouverites
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because it was an offer of interceptor to Vancouverites
ah, so it should be in the buy/sell/trade/for free section then

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