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Broke
I know there have been a lot of posts about this but this one has pictures! 
Quick question right of the bat. What is the current thought/trend in 2nd and 3rd doses. The procedure is 2 years old. Have people been successful with just one treatment?
~3:00pm - air to skimmer off, UV turned off, ozone turned off. First picture is prior to treatment. I mixed ½ (plus a hair) for an estimated 180g system. Pill was crushed with a spoon in a glass bowl. Pill was not very water soluble and was eventually poured into the system near the return with a few salt grain sized chunks left un-dissolved.
~3:15pm – 15 minutes into treatment. Fish seem a little stressed. Cleaner shrimp seem woozy (these are large shrimp). Of the 6 or seven acro crabs I see, all are moving. I have no hermits to worry about.
~3:30pm – 30 minutes into treatment. Fish doing better. Stress may have just been perceived. Acro crabs still moving. Cleaner shrimp are stationary but alert.
~4:15pm – 75 minutes into treatment. One acro crab is twitching. The smallest of the clownfish is out in the current eating something. Obviously eating, darting back and forth in the current. Possibly dead or dying pods…maybe red bugs???
Coral sliming slightly.
~4:30pm – 90 minutes into the treatment. Acro that was twitching is belly up. This crab was in an apparently uninfected coral directly below where the mixture was poured in. All other crabs and shrimp somewhat motionless but still fine.
Coral sliming more heavily.
~5:30pm – 150 minutes into the treatment. Tank inhabitants as before. Coral sliming the bugs off. Bugs are getting almost gone. They are apparently dead and the coral is “removing†them by sliming in the area where they were.
~6:00pm – 180 minutes into the treatment. Still only down the 1 acro crab. Mysis are nowhere to be found in the sump where they used to be plentiful. Amphipods are floating around and being eaten by all of the fish.
~7:00pm – 240 minutes into the treatment. See a couple of bristle worms laying lifeless on the sand bed. Coral has slimed all visible bugs away. Slime has increased in the hour. Of the other 10 –12 infected corals, no visible bugs. Some are sliming, some are not.
~8:00pm – 360 minutes into the treatment. End of the treatment. Only lost one acro crab that I can see, some bristle worms (probably more than I can see), all visible mysis and many, but not all amphipods. All equipment that was turned off is turned back on. Sump level raised above normal and skimmer is tweaked to skim very wet over night. 35 gallon water change performed. ~3 cups of carbon added in a media bag to the filter sock. (new sock, sock was removed for the treatment)
Quick question right of the bat. What is the current thought/trend in 2nd and 3rd doses. The procedure is 2 years old. Have people been successful with just one treatment?
~3:00pm - air to skimmer off, UV turned off, ozone turned off. First picture is prior to treatment. I mixed ½ (plus a hair) for an estimated 180g system. Pill was crushed with a spoon in a glass bowl. Pill was not very water soluble and was eventually poured into the system near the return with a few salt grain sized chunks left un-dissolved.
~3:15pm – 15 minutes into treatment. Fish seem a little stressed. Cleaner shrimp seem woozy (these are large shrimp). Of the 6 or seven acro crabs I see, all are moving. I have no hermits to worry about.
~3:30pm – 30 minutes into treatment. Fish doing better. Stress may have just been perceived. Acro crabs still moving. Cleaner shrimp are stationary but alert.
~4:15pm – 75 minutes into treatment. One acro crab is twitching. The smallest of the clownfish is out in the current eating something. Obviously eating, darting back and forth in the current. Possibly dead or dying pods…maybe red bugs???
Coral sliming slightly.
~4:30pm – 90 minutes into the treatment. Acro that was twitching is belly up. This crab was in an apparently uninfected coral directly below where the mixture was poured in. All other crabs and shrimp somewhat motionless but still fine.
Coral sliming more heavily.
~5:30pm – 150 minutes into the treatment. Tank inhabitants as before. Coral sliming the bugs off. Bugs are getting almost gone. They are apparently dead and the coral is “removing†them by sliming in the area where they were.
~6:00pm – 180 minutes into the treatment. Still only down the 1 acro crab. Mysis are nowhere to be found in the sump where they used to be plentiful. Amphipods are floating around and being eaten by all of the fish.
~7:00pm – 240 minutes into the treatment. See a couple of bristle worms laying lifeless on the sand bed. Coral has slimed all visible bugs away. Slime has increased in the hour. Of the other 10 –12 infected corals, no visible bugs. Some are sliming, some are not.
~8:00pm – 360 minutes into the treatment. End of the treatment. Only lost one acro crab that I can see, some bristle worms (probably more than I can see), all visible mysis and many, but not all amphipods. All equipment that was turned off is turned back on. Sump level raised above normal and skimmer is tweaked to skim very wet over night. 35 gallon water change performed. ~3 cups of carbon added in a media bag to the filter sock. (new sock, sock was removed for the treatment)
