Montipora Issue

[rickyb]

I got some if you are near Park Ridge, just return the unused portion.

 

[NewSchool04]

thanks rickyb, I'm picking some up a little closer tonight but I appreciate the offer!

 

[rickyb]

np

 

[ostrow]

Any pharmacy that does compounds (meaning, a real pharmacy, not a national chain) will make Lugol's solution for you.

 

[aiko670]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=8006357#post8006357 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by ostrow
Any pharmacy that does compounds (meaning, a real pharmacy, not a national chain) will make Lugol's solution for you.

Do you just ask the pharmacist for Lugol's and they'll know what that is?

 

[NewSchool04]

I did my first lugols treatment tonight. It went fine, was surprisingly difficult to dab the solution on the montipora! The damn q-tips kept sticking to the coral. It was hard to tell if I was covering all of the infected area.

I looked closesly on both sides of the coral and saw no nudi's so I'm happy about that!

Thanks menard for the lugols!

 

[md fishes]

Keep us updated. Good luck.

 

[Freed]

I believe you are supposed to mix the Lugol's in a bowl or bucket of water and dip the coral in. I could be mistaken.

 

[rickyfins]

Lugols can be diluted or applied directly with caution. So yea you can do that!

thanks,

Rick

P.S. Glad you don't have a nudi problem

 

[ostrow]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=8006747#post8006747 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by aiko670
Do you just ask the pharmacist for Lugol's and they'll know what that is?

YEP!

 

[NewSchool04]

I'm not exactly sure how the lugols works but it looks like the areas that I applied it to are totally dead and bleached. I'm thinking that such a strong dose applied directly to the infected areas kills both the infection and the coral underneath which was probably dead already. Now that the infection is gon, I would expect the coral to grow over the dead spots soon.

I could be wrong!

 

[Freed]

Put super glue directly on the dead spots and overlap into the live tissue and your troubles will be over.

 

[menard]

Now , just live it alone,he'll recover and encrust over the dead part.

Lugos is a very strong oxidizer, kill all infectious deseases upon contact.:blown:

 

[yznhmr]

the death could have been caused by low salienity, i had a couple pieces dying like that and it turned out that my salienity had dropped from 1.024 to 1.021 over a week or so once i corrected it everything is re growing..
just my 2c

 

[NewSchool04]

The only thing stable in my tank is my salinity yznhmr!

 

[yznhmr]

sorry to hear....

 

[NewSchool04]

I was being sarcastic yznhmr

 

[NewSchool04]

Here is the montipora after a heavy dose of lugols. This stuff is powerful but I think in this situation, the right fix.