New Zoanthid & Palythoa Dipping Best Practices

[AS]

Can someone share or point me to best methods of Dipping / quarantining new Zoanthid & Palythoa?

Thanks
AS

 

[ViktorVaughn]

All I do for mine is float the bag for about 15 minutes to get the temps matching, place zoanthids into a receptacle that has tank water in it and than add the correct amount of CoralRx. I leave them in there for about ten minutes than rinse in another cup with just tank water. After that, into the tank they go. My LFS has a matching salinity so I dont acclimate to my water. I inspect pretty cloesly while Zoanthids are in dip solution for algae of any sort or any pests such as Zoanthid eating Nudibranchs.

 

[Mael]

Soon as I get home I prepare a Revive dip for them, if the salinity or temps are off I will drip acclimate those first then dip them in revive for 5 min making sure I am stirring the revive. Once done in there they go straight to the PROP or DT, no need to rinse them with Revive.

That said Revive is mostly an antiseptic from what I have read, so if I notice or am wary of bugs or hitchhikers then I look at doing a Bayer dip or something as well, havent had to do this yet though.

 

[cloak]

I usually just give any new additions a good rinse under the faucet for a few minutes. After that I just drop them in the tank. So far so good.

 

[650-IS350]

You know the water in the bay area " TAP WATER " contain Chloramine , not good for fish and corals.

http://www.epa.gov/region9/water/chloramine.html

 

[cloak]

Yeah, they just started adding it to my tap water in the beginning of June. No problems so far.