Reef Bugs!!!

RichardScottRice · 11/15/2007, 08:00 PM

OK, here's the deal. I decided to try the Reef Bugs food for my filter feeders and my sps corals so I added about 1/8th of a teaspoon of the powder to a glass of tank water, waited 30 min and added it to the tank. Not much happened. I saw a few brine shrimpy looking things swimming around, but that was about it. But now... about 10 days later I have all these whiteish tiny "fleas" for a better term all over the place. At first they just showed up on the glass. I asked a couple people and they were like no-biggie, they're harmless some fish will eat them or they will go away on their own. Well, now my water is starting to cloud with them. It is obviously irritating the fish and a couple of my corals are not opening up as much as they used to so I'm thinking they're irritated as well. What do I do? They're too small for a poly filter pad to take out of the water. I did a water change and that only seemed to make them flourish more. Is there something that will eat them? If I got a mandarin would they eat them? I'm concerned that if they keep populating like this the tank is going to crash.

Thanks

usmc121581 · 11/15/2007, 08:59 PM

Have you tried running a diatom filter. Something like a MAG 350. I use my mag to polish my water nothing gets past the filter .

11/15/2007, 08:00 PM	#1
RichardScottRice Premium Member Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Atlanta, GA Posts: 213	Reef Bugs!!! OK, here's the deal. I decided to try the Reef Bugs food for my filter feeders and my sps corals so I added about 1/8th of a teaspoon of the powder to a glass of tank water, waited 30 min and added it to the tank. Not much happened. I saw a few brine shrimpy looking things swimming around, but that was about it. But now... about 10 days later I have all these whiteish tiny "fleas" for a better term all over the place. At first they just showed up on the glass. I asked a couple people and they were like no-biggie, they're harmless some fish will eat them or they will go away on their own. Well, now my water is starting to cloud with them. It is obviously irritating the fish and a couple of my corals are not opening up as much as they used to so I'm thinking they're irritated as well. What do I do? They're too small for a poly filter pad to take out of the water. I did a water change and that only seemed to make them flourish more. Is there something that will eat them? If I got a mandarin would they eat them? I'm concerned that if they keep populating like this the tank is going to crash. Thanks __________________ 34 Gal Red Sea Max. The Max is a decent nano tank for what it was designed to be - Don't try and make it something it is not or you will be disappointed ;) Current Tank Info: 34 Gal Nano Tank. LPS, Zoo's, Shrooms and yes, even a few SPS! Pair Ocillaris Clowns, Orchid Dottyback and the Queen of the tank - A purple FireFish

11/15/2007, 08:59 PM	#2
usmc121581 Where am I? Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Abingdon, maryland Posts: 1,671 Blog Entries: 1	Have you tried running a diatom filter. Something like a MAG 350. I use my mag to polish my water nothing gets past the filter . __________________ I prefer not to think before I speak, I like to be just as surprised as everyone else by what comes out of my mouth. Current Tank Info: I have a 180 gal mostly LPS corals, it contains 1 Val. Tang, 1 yellow striped clown fish, 3 percula clownfish, a blood shrimp, cleaner shrimp and a sand shifting goby, 5 pajama cardinals, 1 green chromis. Also a 75 gal. sump/fug.