Hypo-Salinity on Corals

[huskysglare1]

My frogspawn had recently contracted a lot of white little pests. They look like copepods, but smaller. they crawl all over the frogspawn preventing it from opening fully.

I am going to put the frogspawn in a QT tank. Will hypo salinity kill these little pests or do i have to use copper. Will hypo harm my frogspawn?

 

[hottuna]

Dont think either option is a good idea...(hypo or copper)...

 

[twiggyb]

Try doing a dip. Revive works for me. Copper will kill the coral and the hypo will most likely stress it and bleach. JMO

 

[discocarp]

Hypo and copper are for treating fish not corals. They will both kill your coral.

 

[mscarpena]

Hypo and copper are for treating fish not corals. They will both kill your coral.

I agree you will kill your coral. Try a Iodine dip. Tropic Marin Pro Coral cure should kill them.

 

[huskysglare1]

i tried fresh water dip already and the bugs are still alive and healthy.

 

[tkeracer619]

i tried fresh water dip already and the bugs are still alive and healthy.

So are you going to just try everything out and let us know what works/kills your coral or are you going to read peoples replies to the questions you asked and maybe find a solution?

 

[huskysglare1]

I am looking into iodine or that marine stuff. Will regular iodine from wal mart works? How many drops do I need per gallon. Do I use tank water or fresh water? Thanks.

 

[huskysglare1]

I will not be doing hypo or copper. I didn't know copper kills corals as well as pests

 

[Daniel Reef]

Why not just buy the Revive that people keep recommending rather than trying to ask whether Iodine or any other OTC non-marine medicine will work?

 

[huskysglare1]

Why are you being so hostile. There was a recommendation for iodine and fresh water dipping. I have an iodine bottle at home and I want to ask how to properly use it. That's all. I tried freshwater dip and it doesn't work. I just want to inform people who suggested water dipping.

 

[jakester]

revive has my vote!!! The iodine and other dips have seemed to be too invasive toward the coral tissue from my experience.

 

[Bill Nye]

Why are you being so hostile. There was a recommendation for iodine and fresh water dipping. I have an iodine bottle at home and I want to ask how to properly use it. That's all. I tried freshwater dip and it doesn't work. I just want to inform people who suggested water dipping.

If you fresh water dipped and they didnt go away then your problem will probably require multiple dips or some other sort of tank treatment method. Pictures would be very helpful so we can see what is crawling on your frogspawn. I would use lugols iodine and do a dip according to what they recommend on the bottle.

As a side note how long was the freshwater dip on your frogspawn? I am pretty sure most corals other than zoanthids are not supposed to be FW dipped but I could be wrong. If you did not dip long enough the FW alone would not have killed them IMO.

 

[travis32]

Freshwater dipping fish can take upwards of over a minute to get pests to fall off of fish. I'm not sure how well corals would do with a minute or more in Freshwater.

 

[dan10342]

Revive

If they are bugs INTERCEPTOR perhaps?

Whatever you do... DO NOT use copper! or you may have some dead bugs... and a dead coral... and and unusable coral skeleton for future reefing needs.

 

[huskysglare1]

I'll try revive. The little buggers are too small to show up on my iPhone cam. I dipped the corals for about 3-4 min. I thought it was going to die, but luckily they didn't.

 

[GhostCon1]

Don't FW dip corals. Copper will kill all inverts. The named stuff people are mentioning will be good.

 

[Inklinkerman]

You can FW dip many corals but revive may be better. Never use copper on any inverts!