Red Mite Treatment Help

[wrassefan]

Okay...I got interceptor....according to the thread on treating for red mites, each tablet will treat 380gal (please correct me if this is incorrect). How accurate a measurement does it have to be if I'm treating acros in a 10 gal tank? I was planning on using a box filter for circulation, heater, tank water and some liverock for biological filtration. That means this one pill should be divided into 38 equal doses. Is this correct??? Please help!!

 

[JohnK]

I'm no expert but I know that a lot of people have reported using signifigantly higher doses than reccomended (allowing some margin of error assuming your going for the reccomended dose). When I treated, I split a pill up into thirds and used one third for each dose on a system with 80-90 total gal. Pretty aproximate, but it worked without problems.

For a 10g, obviously you'd need to be a bit more accurate. I've heard of people talking pharmicists onto measuring out portions, but I don't know how hard/who you have to know, to get that done. Also, if I recall correctly, I think I remember hearing that jeremy at CRA helped some people measure out portions, you might try contacting him?

 

[wrassefan]

thanks for the reply Jimmy....I ended up trying to treat the entire tank and split the pill into 4 equal portions....might end up using about a third by the time I'm done.

 

[JohnK]

Good luck, I doubt you will have any problems. If anything dose on the high side, treatment was pretty safe as I remember. Pull snails / hermits / crabs / maybe shrimp. Everything else should be fine, I had no negative effects.