Fresh-Water Dip Question
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crispyreef
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What do you want to do this to? A fresh water dip dramatically changes the osmotic balance of an organism. Example, doing this to a fish with external parasites will often make the parasites be expelled out of the fish. Doing this to rocks can also get unwanted pest to flee out of the rock in search of "safe water". The damage that is done depends on how long you soak it for.
sir_dudeguy
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To kill off parasitic crustations, etc...
I've never noticed, but i wouldnt do it on a large rock. It also isnt good for the bacteria and you'd probably kill a lot of it off if you did it on a large rock...which wouldnt be good.
I usually do my zoas for 2 minutes or so. They're the only thing i've tried FW dips on though...i'd ask first before trying it on other stuff.
What do you mean? Like all the dead stuff that comes off? Rinse them off and then you should be good to put the coral in the tank. Usually i acclimate them first, then get some RO water and dip them after they're acclimated.
Aquarist007
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Re: Fresh-Water Dip Question
I would set up a quarantine tank and everything you buy goes in there first for 4-6 weeks.
this helps you get difficult eaters to eat
it allows you to treat diseases like ich--by hyposalinating the water(bringing it down to 1.009 salinity level)
which is the preferred method of treating fish.
IMO fresh water dip is reserved more for corals.
I would put live rock into quarantine but not r/0 water. Sometimes the hitchikers are a benefical addition to your tank--why kill them off?
Most reefers like corraline algae--can't understand why you would want to kill it off. It also serves the purpose of competing with nusance algae for rock space so the nusance is checked or controlled.
I would set up a quarantine tank and everything you buy goes in there first for 4-6 weeks.
this helps you get difficult eaters to eat
it allows you to treat diseases like ich--by hyposalinating the water(bringing it down to 1.009 salinity level)
which is the preferred method of treating fish.
IMO fresh water dip is reserved more for corals.
I would put live rock into quarantine but not r/0 water. Sometimes the hitchikers are a benefical addition to your tank--why kill them off?
Most reefers like corraline algae--can't understand why you would want to kill it off. It also serves the purpose of competing with nusance algae for rock space so the nusance is checked or controlled.
sir_dudeguy
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Personally i wouldnt put live rock in a QT because ich goes through a life cycle where it live on the fish part of its life, and then on rock for another part of its life. It can live in the rocks for like 6 weeks or something without a fish...
Say you get a fish in that has ich...the ich passes to the rock. You wait a few weeks and put that fish back in your tank and then get a new fish for your qt...that ich could still be on the rock, and could then go to the new fish...theoretically.
Say you get a fish in that has ich...the ich passes to the rock. You wait a few weeks and put that fish back in your tank and then get a new fish for your qt...that ich could still be on the rock, and could then go to the new fish...theoretically.
Aquarist007
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I thought that what was behind keeping anything in qt for up to 6 weeks before putting it in the maintank. ?
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