Attack of the isopods!!!!

RaisedOnNintendo;511584 wrote: Nuke um all let god sort it out. What's so special about the rock n e ways can't you just put it back n after a couple of days of it sitting outside?? Scrub it off good clean it n shove it n a kiddy pool or something for a couple months to cure. Ta da presto u still have rock. Sure time sucksbut hay.
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The rock is 7 dollars a pound.... that is what is special about the rock, besides all the corals encrusted on them.
 
au01st;511177 wrote: One of the big drawbacks with the Interceptor treatment for redbugs is that it can kill inverts; what about using that to kill pods?
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This is what I want to do. I have the pods to replenish the loss in another system that is going to be merged with this one. The only problem is my partner is weary about it killing the current pods. Not that big of a problem in my eyes.
 
chefrepo;511190 wrote: Here is a pretty good article regarding parasitic isopods.
http://reefkeeping.com/issues/2002-05/rs/index.php">http://reefkeeping.com/issues/2002-05/rs/index.php</a>

the last paragraph gives you your options

If you notice one of these animals in your tank, and it leaves the fish, there is almost nothing that may be done to catch it. They are very fast and quite capable of avoiding a net. And if it is a pregnant female (and remember, all female isopods have brood pouches), and the brood hatches, you have [B]REAL[/B] problems. There are only three courses of action in this situation; and I truly am not jesting about these responses. The first is to remove all the fish from the tank and wait the two or three months until you are certain that all the isopods have died from starvation. The second solution is to effectively nuke the tank. Remove all live rock and discard it as the isopods may hide in it and, as some of the isopods bury in the sand, you should also remove and discard the sand.
You may, of course, take the third option and do nothing. The most likely outcome in this situation will be that the isopods will kill your fish one by one. These isopods are masterfully designed predators. Hope fervently that you never have to deal with them.[/QUOTE]

Thanks for the article as I have already read it about 10 times before you posted.
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DrNecropolis;511354 wrote:
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These guys are the reason I built my Dorito reactor..
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HA!!! That will be a last stitch effort if I cannot get these under control
 
Good luck. I figure replacing a CUC and Pods are easy than losing your favorite fish. I would go ahead a get the Interceptor and once someone chimes in with the right dosage.

You can buy Pods by the hundreds from a local sponsor or online. I also have some cheato from both my tanks that need trimming that are infested with Pods of all sorts that can have your tank populated in no time, after the effects of the Interceptor are gone, that you can have.
 
Thanks Cory. From my understand (and I have been researching the effects of Interceptor all day) that it will only be present in the water for no more that 24hrs, but just to be sure 48hrs with the iso's wiped out. I just need someone to chime in with the correct dosage. I do know I have to use the pill for the large dogs, but my current setup is 90g and the big pill treats somewhere like 350 to 400 gallons. I am setting up a 225g system and I want this problem eradicated before I transfer all my setups into one huge one.
 
courterbobby;511707 wrote: Thanks for the article as I have already read it about 10 times before you posted.
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No problem.
Someone here may have a fish trap you could borrow to catch what fish you have left.
Good Luck.
 
If you have a good relationship with the local vet, it might be as simple as asking and explaining. I have talked with my vet, and while she won't give me a pill to have on standby, she's said that I can come get it when I need it.
 
trigger-happy;511631 wrote: A nice boiling water or bleach soak ought to kill them. Bleach is probably easier - you can do that in a kiddie pool or a rubbermaid to do large quantities at a time, whereas you can only boil as much sand or rock as will fit in your largest stock pot at any given time! I know these suckers are tough, but can they survive a bleach bath?

When you put the sand/rock back in your tank, dose heavily with Prime, then go through the cycling process again because all your good bacteria will be as dead as the pests.

I dunno what to tell you about your currently-affected fish, though...
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Dude your twisted boil them you sicko. Lol just playing. Oh got one better use crank up your oven to 450 degrees stick all your rock on a cookie sheet n BBQ them bad boys. Roasted toasted n burnt to a crisp that's just how I like um
 
Ok so the problem is still not eliminated yet, though there has been no attack on the fish in 2 days. I found this bugger tonight up against the glass burrowing in the sand. I believe it is the female that released the terror on my tank, but there could be more than one mature female in there. note the tail section that is how you tell the sex of these creatures.

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Incredible! Have you figured out HOW they got in there? Any luck on a reading about and finding a medicinal treatment?
 
wow, those are amazing.. do you have a quarter or something to show a size comparison?
 
They came with my shipment of LR I ordered off line from liverocknreef.com Though I have had many many many unwanted creatures, I have got a LOT more good creatures. I would still highly recommend them. I believe what I am going to try is a hypo salinity dip on the rocks to flush out the ones that are in the rocks, and then either get a predator fish to get the sand dwelling ones, or pull all my fish except the yellow tang and spend a night catching the little a-holes.
 
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