TOTM winner needs help!!! - Page 3

**wwest** · 11-16-2006, 08:53 AM

yea thats true. well how big is the steak?

lol

Victoria · 11-29-2006, 12:07 PM

Ok, Step 2 is forget about getting all the peppermint shrimp out.

just can't catch them. Will try agian when I start treatment. Here is the first photo: Before treatment.

Treatment will start this weekend.

Red bugs be gone!!

Victoria · 11-29-2006, 12:31 PM

They have increased over the last two months. So I feel treatment is needed before they begin to cause damage to my corals.

Victoria · 11-29-2006, 12:33 PM

more pics , sorry for the double pic post.

**JustDavidP** · 11-29-2006, 12:45 PM

Day-um...I just love that tank...best of luck!

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Victoria · 11-29-2006, 01:08 PM

Thanks David...So do I!! I have to admit I'm alittle afraid... But I know what ever happens I will just keep moving forward. Thats what our tanks are anyway... three steps forward.. one step back.

**JustDavidP** · 11-29-2006, 01:14 PM

Just follow the recipe and you'll be fine... I was afraid too..but it all worked out.

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Victoria · 11-30-2006, 08:36 PM

Hey David I have a question??? I don't have access to a scale, how much of the tablet do you think I should use. I'm guessing I have about 33 gallons. I have the large dog tablets 23mg.

**JustDavidP** · 12-01-2006, 09:49 AM

Victoria,

Did you take into account the water in refugiums, sumps, skimmers etc? Did you reduce the total gallons by figuring in the mass of your live rock and sand etc.? It makes a difference. You need to "guesstimate" as close as possible.

After you are more than positive of your total gallons in the system, check out this thread/article by our pal Mr. Borneman and the original "brain child" of the treatment, Dustin Dorton:

Eric Borneman - Tegastes acroporanus: Dorton Treatment

Basically, you want to use the large breed pills (as you've stated) 50-100 LB dogs. Each of those pills contains 23mg of Milbemycin Oxime. Remember, the pills themselves are in and around a gram each. There is other "mass" in that pill besides the medication itself. This is important to understand as you will be dosing with total mass of the pill and not of the total mass of the medication therein.

For your system +/-30 gallons, you would want to use +/- 0.075mg of the pill. The recipe calls for 0.025 grams per 10 gallons. Personally, I never weighed the medication. I had in and around 100 gallons in my system at the time and it was easier for me to just use a quarter of the pill. ( .025X10=.25 right?)

If you are as risky as I

you would need to use 13.3% of the pill.

Dave

Manogr · 12-01-2006, 06:19 PM

I am reading breathless.... Good Luck !!

Victoria · 12-02-2006, 06:31 PM

Treatment is well under way. Look for the complete hour by hour play comming soon.

bklynmet · 12-02-2006, 11:06 PM

Thanks for sharing your experience with the treatment! Looking forward to hear how it goes. Good luck!

***Rob*** · 12-04-2006, 10:30 PM

Victoria, i have moved your posts to a new thread.. i think your info is awesome, and i want to make sure its doesn't get lost in this thread... hope you understand...

here is a link to the new thread so everyone can follow along
Victorias Redbug Treatment

Victoria · 12-05-2006, 12:47 AM

Thanks Rob I was hopeing it would get used this way. I glad I got to do it here at TR,,