How to DIP Corals?

[Baldwin]

I am new to coral and I am wondering how people dip their corals and what method/products they use to do this?

 

[Emerald525]

I have used iodine, coral rx and revive. I usually will dip any new corals before putting them in my tank. I have to say I think I like the Revive the best. I also will dip corals that are not doing well sometimes such as having a receded edge.

 

[Baldwin]

cool thanks for the info, do you ever freshwater dip corals? I mean do u just dip them in the revive or do you pour revive in freshwater or what?

 

[T Diddy]

cool thanks for the info, do you ever freshwater dip corals? I mean do u just dip them in the revive or do you pour revive in freshwater or what?

use water from your display, or the water they are acclimated in...

 

[Baldwin]

Ok thanks T, that makes a lot of sense now that i think about it, haha. I thought I heard someone say one time that they had freshwater dipped there coral, that seems very dangerous?

 

[ludnix]

You should only freshwater dip zoanthids. You must also be careful to not use iodine dips on xenia, it will kill them.

I use iodine dips on corals which I suspect of flatworms or other parasites, freshwater dips on zoanthids.

 

[Baldwin]

You should only freshwater dip zoanthids. You must also be careful to not use iodine dips on xenia, it will kill them.

I use iodine dips on corals which I suspect of flatworms or other parasites, freshwater dips on zoanthids.

Great info, is there any other specific dips you can think of for specific corals, or a book that perhaps could teach me a lot about this subject and corals in general>?

 

[Alysiak00]

some people freshwater dip their sps's but DONT DO IT. As stated above only do this for zoas. the freshwater is too much of a shock for the sps corals

 

[110galreef]

bringing this back up. How exactly does one go about Iodine dips. I wanted to do Coral Rx, just dont have it a LFS. And I have frags (should be w/o parasites) but I want to dip as a saftey measure for all incoming corals.
Oh & doest the coral rx and or revive kill or do something that the Iodine doesn't?

Sounds like Iodine will work for LPS & SPS & other softies.

What is the ratio, time to dip & then do you rinse in fresh bucket of tank water?

thanks

 

[kevin21]

kind of tagging along here from some info, but what ive done in the past was used lugols solution before adding to my display. after acclimation i put a drop in the bucket, im just getting back into the hobby so im forgetting how long i let them sit in the lugols.