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so what choice do you have? I DO understand why you'd want to remove a special ornamental shrimp or such however. In that case, with homage to Yogi Berra here, I'd just give them the once over a couple times before putting them back in the tank.
By the way, remember the image of that heavily infested coral branch I posted a couple pages ago? Here it is after treatment with Interceptor  . Now if we could just get Dustin working on the common cold...
Finally, it is now my intention to treat all my incoming frags with a six-hour Interceptor bath. I may still do my regular 15 minute Lugols bath too or a fresh water dip as I hear acro eating flatworms are also becoming quite a problem ('sigh') but the Interceptor bath will be mandatory. I doubt these things got in through the frag Jason got me a couple months ago because the infestation was so severe. But from what I understand, they can come in from almost anywhere nowadays; especially through an LFS's and via frag trading with another hobbyist. So I figure it's better to be safe and just treat all the new 'sps' no matter where they come from. |
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| In other "SPS" news, we lost the frag known as Monti SP2 this month. It had been plagued of late by bits of die-off here and there but finally lost the race around the first of the month. |
| The only other noteworthy event that occurred this month was the accidental fragging of my huge brown Frogspawn . This happened when Ray was using a Magnavore X to clean the viewing area as we've both done a thousand times before. I'm not quite sure what caused it this time, but when Ray swiped the area in front of the piece, it nicked part of the skeleton and the pieces own weight split it approximately down the middle. It wasn't so much of a shock really. We knew it was growing a bit too close to the 'glass' and would have to be fragged some day. But, as is customary, we kept putting that day off as the specimen had become of the signature pieces of the tank and usually the first coral a new visitor would comment on. I've also had it over 6 years, estimate that it weighed close to 15 pounds. It had grown over 50 large heads. But fortunately, since it was the branching variety, no real damage was done to it and for this we were grateful. We quickly decided which half we wanted to keep and put the other half in the ‘fuge’, which took up almost half of that! A few days later, Jason, from House Of Fins came by and fragged THAT half into a pair before bringing it to a client of his in Long Island, New York. And as of this writing, both pieces are doing very well. |
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