Isopods
This is a "Bad" that you get with live rock. And, of course we have them. How do we know? Well we are down to 1 Banggai Cardinal now. Slowly they have died off just like the clowns did. Ken and Linny replaced the 1 twice...so have lost 5 fish and now it looks as though the last one will die too. They attach themselves to the fish, suck blood and cause the fish a slow death. What does it mean for our tank? DISASTER! The plan of attack is either bad or badder. (nice grammar) NO really our choice now is to A) remove the entire sand bed, keep our live rock as is and have no fish for 8-12 months to hopefully eradicate this pest or B) throw away all live rock, live sand and start again. We would reset up the tank after a very thorough cleaning and place a small substrate layer, new live rock from Ken and Linny and aged water from them to put all animals back into the tank with.....what would you do? Either way we are wasting and/or re-investing several hundred dollars. Leaves a bad taste in your mouth....
posted by Sarah at
10:26 p.m.
2 Comments:
should you go with the Redo It All option, can you even keep the shrimp and anemones or will they be carriers of the Isopods and need to be put down as well?
Did you actually see these things?
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Lunchbox, at 12:28 a.m.
We did see some bugs...these bugs are a bit more reclusive and only come to attack at night mostly. I am pretty much to the point of redoing the whole damn thing...but Ken wants to give it a chance, take out the sand bed completely, give the rocks a dip in fresh water, put small layer of crush coral on bottom and replace all the rocks.....then no fish for 8-12 months and then add a cheap fish and see what happens.....the rock should be the only carrier...most likely they won't travel in the anemones or coral...but if the anemones are attached to rock....well you can't take them off easily, so.......yah any way you look at it...IT SUCKS!
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Sarah, at 7:12 p.m.
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