Abrotanoide Acro + Revive Dip = Bad Idea

[tylersarah]

Today I dipped an Abrotanoide colony in Revive, about a hour after it was in the tank it seemed to bleach and the tank is a bit cloudy, and a few of the LPS corals are upset, take the coral out or give it a chance?

 

[celamb89]

I would run carbon and give it a chance

 

[tylersarah]

The house, including the basement (because the sump is plumbed down there) smells like raw fish sewage due to this coral. My concern is that it could kill the fish overnight. Two things I'm going to do, check for NH4 and do a w/c.

The coral is a large colony, 6 inches wide or so. When I first put it in the tank a filmy cloud of white shed off of it followed by bleaching all over the coral. There is no more white shedding. Safe to keep the coral in the tank and check for polyp extension tomorrow?

 

[bobssecrtsn]

after you dipped the acro did you dip it in your tank water in a seperate container?

 

[tylersarah]

I dipped it in a bowl of tank water, then put the coral in the tank and once the powerheads hit the coral it shed the first layer and proceeded to bleach fully. Note, I didn't use full strength Revive either, I never do because I know some corals are more sensitive.

The smell of the coral infiltrated the entire house so much that we decided to dispose of the coral. Anything that smells that badly and is affecting the other corals so adversely, in my opinion, has a very little chance of comeback. If the smell had gone away after the water change, or if the coral didn't fully bleach, I would have felt more hopeful. Lesson learned, stick to aqua and maricultured corals, leave the really wild stuff in the wild.

 

[Allmost]

you either introduced revive into your reef, or you used too strong of a dose. did you have a power head blasting the coral in the dip container ? any water movement ?


are you sure its not the smell of coral you are sensing ? all corals smell, dead corals dont though. kinda puzzling. u sure its not the bucket with revive stinking up ?

either way ... hope the rest of ure stock is fine, and nothing wrong with wild corals all mine are wild.

 

[tylersarah]

Here's some more detail:
I poured a gallon of sump water into a bowl, set up a drip system with the coral and the bag water in the bowl, 20 mins went by and I added 30 mL of Revive, swirled it around every couple mins and after 10 mins I dipped the coral in more collected sump water then into the tank. Immediately a white filmy substance created a cloud around the coral that dispersed into the tank, followed by complete bleaching of the coral. And the smell came a few mins after the milky cloud.

When the coral was removed from the tank, it did not smell, but the house, basement and water still did. In the morning the smell had dissipated and the other corals looked much better.

 

[eswgato]

I dipped it in a bowl of tank water, then put the coral in the tank and once the powerheads hit the coral it shed the first layer and proceeded to bleach fully. Note, I didn't use full strength Revive either, I never do because I know some corals are more sensitive.

The smell of the coral infiltrated the entire house so much that we decided to dispose of the coral. Anything that smells that badly and is affecting the other corals so adversely, in my opinion, has a very little chance of comeback. If the smell had gone away after the water change, or if the coral didn't fully bleach, I would have felt more hopeful. Lesson learned, stick to aqua and maricultured corals, leave the really wild stuff in the wild.

No just don't ever ever use revive use the bayer method

 

[tylersarah]

I searched the Bayer method, new to me. You've been using this successfully with all different kinds of corals?