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Red bugs

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Can I get a link or a quick tip on how to rid myself of these?
I saw a pic posted recently that tipped me off. I had to use magnification to notice them first on my Oregon Tort and then others. I have a cleaner shrimp and at least one peppermint.
At this point the corals are doing fine (except for the tiny tiny red bugs). :(
Thanks! Jon
 
Yes your pods will likely die off as may most of your invertibrates (crabs and shrimp). Snails and clams seem to do fine with th treatment.

There are people that live with them. They tend to do nothing more then irritate SPS and cause less ployp extension and perhaps slow coral growth because of it. The big issue you are going to have is in trading corals with others that don't want to live with them.
 
If you keep your params good, feed and stay on top of your tank living with them is ok. If they have other stresses applied to them RedBugs can really mess up sps.
 
OK so i'm gonna treat the tank but I want to save as many pods as possible.
My fuge is a seperate tank connected to the main tank off a "T" from the return pump.
It gravity feeds into the display tank from there.
If I shut the "T" off the fuge will not circulate into the main tank.
There are no corals in the fuge. Do I need to treat the fuge for red bugs also?
Or do they only exist on the corals? It would be cool to save the pods in the fuge.
 
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