Dipping and acclimation for Zoanthids

[Husky_1]

Dumb question, but if you are doing a FW/Lugols dip on Zoanthids is there any reason to drip acclimate before hand?


Thanks,
Dale

 

[Hypertek99]

You should just drip acclimate the dip into the coral you just got.

 

[MUCHO REEF]

It's certainly not a dumb question my friend. We all have our own ideas, methods or reasons for doing what we do with new arrivals, so it's personal preference. Me personally, the only time I drip acclimate zoas or palys is when they arrive in horrible conditions or when the shipment water is under 74 or over 86 degrees. If none of the above apply, I simply do a dip followed by close inspection and they always do wells in my system in conjunction with running the actinics only for the first day.

Mucho Reef

 

[Husky_1]

Thanks Mucho, that is pretty much the method I use, but was thinking about proper acclimation of other things and this came up.

Hyper,
I am not sure I would drip acclimate to a Freshwater dip, I think keeping them in Freshwater for a few hours could be bad. Of course, I could be totally wrong.

 

[650-IS350]

I do the same as mucho, pretty much.

 

[Reefer07]

I just temp. acclimate mine as many other people do too but I think I might need to dip mine soon as I am having some problems with them.