Thinking about using one of my many 10 g tanks as a LPS QT. I'm thinking mainly euphyllia - frogspawn, hammers, torchs. What kind of flow and LEDs do I need? My DT has BML VHO 20k LEDs. Do I need sand and live rock or can I just use a sponge filter from my DT? They would only be in the QT for 72-ish days.
LPS Quarantine Tank
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I use CoralRX. You're correct re brown-jelly, and honestly I don't know if CRX will get it, but I've not personally seen the problem recently. Try to avoid bruises, bumps, and look for heads that are nicely extended all around the disc, nothing that's weeping brown stuff or contracted for no apparent reason. It grows pretty fast, if happy. Likes fairly strong light, wants to be generally upright. Don't subject any living thing you want to survive to hydrogen peroxide...it's good at killing stuff off rock, but avoid even the bubbles from a dipped rock hitting one of your corals. Problem with a 72 day qt for a coral is light: they can starve during that time, since it's light that provides their sugars. I don't like to buy from shops that stock sale fish (though they may keep some permanent fish) in the same tank with their corals, because that's a prime way a coral could come in with a fishy parasite. I like the coral tank sumps to be separate, and for the water dipped for a coral sale bag to be only from the coral tanks, not from the sale-fish next door. That way I've honestly never had a coral come in with a fishy problem.
CStrickland
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I've had a duncan, zoa and acans tolerate diluted peroxide well, but it made a trumpet and a hammer furious. I won't be using it on LPS any more.
I buy my frags online, so bruising is more of an issue (like every time). Iodine and melafix (I think it's mostly tea tree oil) are both recommended. I've tried both a few times with success, but you never know what would have happened if I'd done nothing at all. I haven't really planted enough frags to advise anyone on it, but those are some things you can google. Maybe CoralRx has the same stuff in it, idk.
The best part of dipping is watching all the angry pods and scary worms skitter out, lol.
I'm a lazy QTer, but some reefers QT everything wet. It would be nice to be sure the tank is free of ich, the risk of a frag is much less than a fish but it is non-zero.
I buy my frags online, so bruising is more of an issue (like every time). Iodine and melafix (I think it's mostly tea tree oil) are both recommended. I've tried both a few times with success, but you never know what would have happened if I'd done nothing at all. I haven't really planted enough frags to advise anyone on it, but those are some things you can google. Maybe CoralRx has the same stuff in it, idk.
The best part of dipping is watching all the angry pods and scary worms skitter out, lol.
I'm a lazy QTer, but some reefers QT everything wet. It would be nice to be sure the tank is free of ich, the risk of a frag is much less than a fish but it is non-zero.
Yeah, my tank's main focus is on fish and I have been pretty strict with qt on them (ttm plus prazi plus 4 weeks observation). Lately I've been doing formalin dips with ttm as well. So I don't want to take any chances with any coral frags ruining all that work.
Would 72 days be rough on lps even with something like an ai prime over a 10g or 20g QT? Can I get away with getting one of those full spectrum 165 w Chinese leds on eBay for $100? How concerned should I be if the ai prime or Chinese leds do not match my dt's Leds?
Would 72 days be rough on lps even with something like an ai prime over a 10g or 20g QT? Can I get away with getting one of those full spectrum 165 w Chinese leds on eBay for $100? How concerned should I be if the ai prime or Chinese leds do not match my dt's Leds?
Dkuhlmann
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The only way to fight brown jelly is to constantly blow it off of the coral and to treat with iodine dip. You can purchase iodine at any pharmacy. I wish you luck. I lost all but 2 heads of a 25+ Duncan colony. The faster you do this the better your odds in saving the coral,
http://www.athiel.com/lib/bacterial.html
http://www.athiel.com/lib/bacterial.html
CStrickland
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I read that you arent supposed to use the regular iodine tincture, rather "lugols" iodine. I'm not really sure of the difference, something about how it dissolves in water, or an ion that is needed to create antiseptic in water, or the alcohol in the tincture. Idk, I just get lugols iodine, there are a few brands of it and if your pharmacy doesn't carry it a feed n seed like agways where you buy animal meds will.
Not sure about the lights, any acclimation will be stressful. But my lps are happy under the eBay lights in my main tank so I think it would be ok. Maybe too bright on a little tank tho, they are quite strong. Perhaps something to diffuse like a couple sheets of window screen over the tank, or just hang it at least a foot high?
One good thing about lps is they are easy to target feed, so they aren't totally dependent on light the way a zoathid would be. I'd think that gives a little wiggle room.
Not sure about the lights, any acclimation will be stressful. But my lps are happy under the eBay lights in my main tank so I think it would be ok. Maybe too bright on a little tank tho, they are quite strong. Perhaps something to diffuse like a couple sheets of window screen over the tank, or just hang it at least a foot high?
One good thing about lps is they are easy to target feed, so they aren't totally dependent on light the way a zoathid would be. I'd think that gives a little wiggle room.
Regular Iodine works just as well.
CStrickland
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I don't think any body "owns" it, it's not a brand. The name refers to what the iodine element is attached to, or dissolved in, or something. There was prolly a mr or ms lugols who figured out how to do the attaching, but I doubt they're around anymore to try and corner the lucrative coral-dipping market with false info 
Or maybe it's just one of those reefer myths, like mixing water for days before you use it. Where people do it without questioning why. could be that.
Or maybe it's just one of those reefer myths, like mixing water for days before you use it. Where people do it without questioning why. could be that.
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