Black Bugs at Work

[TinaFishGirl]

Okay I have been on this **** puter for hours looking for info on black bugs. I have found TONS on info on several pods, but got no where in finding out if that is what is killing all the fish.
They are little, with legs, no tail, narrow and long with two antennas. They look like lots of the pods-the harmless and harmful alike. Oh yeah and they are very black! Crawling all over the decorations and substrate. The babies are kind of swimming real close to the bottom and are clear.
All of out fish keep dying-mostly getting ick, cloudy eyes, mouth/fin rot or just gasping untill death. I read that fish with parasites will often get secondary infection so I am wondering if it is the bugs.
We carry no live rock and dump the water they are shipped in, so I am guessing they came in on the fish.
Everything is testing fine. Everything at 0 except nitrates which are only 15-20. How could we find out about other toxins in the water? We did a 95% water change after everyone died last time and waited till everything tested okay again before adding more fish. It doesn't seem to be affecting the eels.
You can read my posts and tell that I have been doing this a long time and I am actually stumped.....I know I don't know it all, but boy this is P*@!ing me off!! :mad2 lol
I am going to try to get a picture, but I still don't know how to post one on here, so I can e-mail it to anyone that may know....if it turns out.

 

[mogurnda]

I'd say the bugs are a red herring. If you have repeated ich outbreaks, you are probably not eliminating the parasites, and the livestock are just getting reinfected. Eels tend to be resistant to cryptocaryon because of their heavy slime coat.

How are you treating for ich?

 

[TinaFishGirl]

Do you know where I can find info on Red Herring? I put it in my search, and other stuff came up.
Now from what I know from ich is that it's because they are stressed from some other source causing them to be suseptable. I could see if it's just our tangs, but is is EVERYONE. Do you think maybe the tanks are just infested, so just the stress from being shipped is causing them to break out easier?
We have been running copper, clout, ummm.....and one other can't remember, cleaner shrimp, and water changes. Not all the meds at once though.
The cleaner shrimp have the most success, but as soon as the cleaner shrimp is gone they break out again.
Instead of treating with meds I would like to find out why and prevent....I don't like to use meds because if someone doesn't listen and puts our water in thier reef, then gets mad at us when thier reef start dying.
Thank you!!!

 

[corriewf]

I wanna see some pics!