Dipping corals

[NucMed]

What method of dipping corals have you guys tried and like the best? Do you use Lugol's, Interceptor, Melafix, Seachem coral dip, freshwater, etc.? What about maybe even a combination or sequence of dips? Interested more for sps corals but what the heck, lets see how everybody does it.

 

[creefer01]

I only have 2 small monti cap frags, a few small zoa colonies, one hammer polyp, and 3 polyps of red people eater palys and all have had a revive bath prior to introduction to the tank. I'm going to order some fat worm exit and add that to the dip.

 

[Agu]

Depends on what you're trying to achieve.

I've used Iodine in saltwater to remove zoanthid eating nudibranchs , freshwater for flatworms, and ReVive for freshly cut frags.

 

[NucMed]

I've used Melafix on a sps frag before with no problems. I've been doing a lot more reading about what can come on frags so I did a freshwater dip on my new sps frags. It looks like the dip worked...even on the corals. I may have lost one but the others, given time, look like they will come back. Most of the polpys are coming out again. Not fully extended, but at least I see them. Time will tell...

 

[birch]

I have dipped all my SPS and LPS frags in one gallon of saltwater with the reccomended dosage of revive, flatworm exit, and interceptor. Seems to work well for me. I don't have soft corals.