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Bugs on octospawn and hammers - Need help

jamesjjc

jamesjjc

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Hello,

My octospawn was not doing so good starting last month. The flesh looks okay but it's not fully expanded compared with before. Yesterday I just found there're tons of white/transparent bugs crawling around its tentacles and flesh. I looked at my other two hammers which are placed closed by also have a few bugs. All other torches and hammers in my tank are a bit far away so didn't found any bugs so far. I did a coral Rx dip yesterday but today I can still see bugs on them.
It may because I got a wild kingspawn last December and didn't dip it. It was also placed closed by these infected guys and eventually it got BJD and I threw it away. I'm wondering if these bugs moved to the close by euphyliya and host them.
Now does anyone have the same issue before?I searched on r2r someone suggested to use interceptor but I can't get it. Anyone has better solutions? Thanks a lot!
Picture is hard to take, these bugs looks like copepods but smaller in size. And they only crawling on the meat of my coral.
 
Turkeysammich said:
Need good pics for a positive ID. Everything else is just a guess
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I tried, they're so tiny that I can't get a clear picture. Those small white dots are them.
 
jamesjjc said:
Thanks for the info and great video. So did the melafix help you clear all the bugs? I don't know where can I get interceptor so I would like to try melafix.
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I just saw it knock some off. I have no idea if it would be an effective treatment plan nor do I know if it even kills them.
 
All those white half moon and spirals below are egg deposits also fyi. Nothing nor medz will kill those unless they have hatched or scraped off. You may have more then one type of pest! Gota keep dipping a few times a week routinely to break the cycles. Should always have wrasses or other types of pest eating livestock to help eradicate pests.. Good luck
 

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While bugs are probably the primary issue, I also see vermetid snails at the base below the flesh. The webs can sometimes irritate coral. I would crush them and/or put a glob of super glue to cover them.
 
PjFish said:
All those white half moon and spirals below are egg deposits also fyi. Nothing nor medz will kill those unless they have hatched or scraped off. You may have more then one type of pest! Gota keep dipping a few times a week routinely to break the cycles. Should always have wrasses or other types of pest eating livestock to help eradicate pests.. Good luck
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Those spirals look more like sporbid worms than eggs. If they're hard, definitely sporbid worms.

Eggs tend to be more clustered and are typically more brownish in color than white. I've never actually seen white bug eggs (not sure anyone has ever documented it that I've seen). Here's a picture from the Goog of Euphyllia Eating Flatworm eggs for example.

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By the size of white bugs if they lay eggs (I didn't bother to look it up) I imagine they would be so tiny that your naked eyes probably would be incapable of seeing them.
 
Thanks for everyone. Yes I do have vermetid snails and sporbid worms in my tank. They're already there for a while and not causing any big issue fory coral. I just want to kill these white bugs asap!
 
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