How do YOU quarantine your corals?

[Pigpen17]

Yes, but stress to a coral can lead to necrosis and other diseases. It's just not necessary, IMO. Not to mention buying a nice coral only to watch it brown out and retard growth seems rather silly and counterproductive. Qt corals for coral parasites, not fish parasites.

This topic keeps coming up and if you're going to follow the logic of a super strict qt protocol. Then you need to qt EVERYTHING wet for 10 weeks. Fish, corals, crabs, snails, live rock, live sand, pods, live foods, refugium algae, starfish, clams, etc. To me that is unnecessary, unlikely to be done and takes the fun out of the hobby as you will probably lose more in qt than you will add to your reef. That's my thoughts anyways, to each his own.

It's all about risk, right? I mean if your buying a coral from Divers Den, yeah, your risk is very low so dip is probablly fine. If you pick up a coral from Petco, don't drop that thing in your tank! Right?

 

[serbusfish]

Dip in Coral Rx, place in tank.