ORA hawkins blue Echinata dip or not

[jhoff]

I will be receiveing a few corals from vivid aquariums tommrow.I think i read somewhere that echinata's don't do well after dipping will be useing coralRX forgot to ask when i placed my order.

 

[Flagswipe]

I dipped mine in PraziPro (for worms of all kinds) and Reef Dip which is basically Lugols

No issues whatsoever

Dwayne

 

[JAustin]

I dipped mine in Brightwell Medicoral, 4 times the amount recommended for the standard time. No issues.

 

[OzoneParkGuy]

In the event that you do.... cut the time to about half of what you normally dip your corals in. Enchinata's and Turaki's are extremely sensitive to the Coral RX and can bleach out over night. I learned that the hard way with the Turaki. After dipping place in med to low light and slowly raise to the location that you want to place your coral in. JM $0.2. GL to you....

 

[ros_sco]

Might want to give this thread a read.

http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1756911&highlight=hawkins

 

[rogerwilco357]

yeah i lost my colony when i dipped it over night cut the time in half used revive and still lost it ..goodluck

 

[MechEng99]

Don't use CoralRx on any smooth-skinned Acro (learned the hard way). That includes the Hawkins. I only use Lugol's on them - they respond just fine with that.

 

[mike_cmu04]

Whatever you do make sure you dip it in something you dont want to risk introducing something bad into your tank.

 

[cwegescheide]

do not use coral rx for sure. I killed several fraud of the Hawkins using that stuff.

 

[sedor]

I killed my echinata by dipping in ReVive as well...I wish I had come across all the threads i've seen now before I decided to do it...

 

[NeverlosT]

another vote for not using coralRX on it. I dipped ALL of my acros and the only ones to die from the dip were the smooth skinned acros.

 

[mjaustin22]

my lokani did fine after dipping in coralrx but I have had a hawkins die before doing the same dip

 

[scottwhitson]

I have had 2 hawkins die in Revive dips.

 

[rogerwilco357]

but when i used the iodine type dips it didn't kill the aefw so I had no choice it was dying slowly and had to try ..
just lost this one to the dip...R.I.P never did find out what it was ..I called her purple beauty..

 

[mcoomer]

This thread is a little frightening to me. I've only been collecting SPS for about a year and everything I've ever read is that Revive was the way to go to help acclimate corals to a new system. Some of these posts that indicate I should use this for those corals and that for these corals is a bit worrisome.

I wonder if we could put together a bit of a list with examples of commonly traded corals and what dip(s) to use on each. I know that this information would be largely anecdotal but it would be a start. I have both Coral RX and Revive at home. I generally dip new corals in Revive. I dipped a Purple Nana in Coral RX for a period of 8 weeks when I found AEFW on it. The parts of the Nana that I fragged are recovering so obviously that coral is good with Coral RX but I wonder if some of the deaths that I've had are a result of dipping in Revive. If so that's going to bum me out. I thought I was doing a "good thing".

Mike

 

[ros_sco]

A member of our reef club lost a softball sized colony he bought out of a LFS display after dipping in revive. That being said, I have personally never lost a frag after dipping in revive and I still use it. My Hawkins came from a trusted source so I never dipped it, but this was before I ever heard of dipping problems with Hawkins.

 

[MechEng99]

After losing or nearly losing several "smooth skinned" Acropora in CoralRx, I quit taking the chance. Those are the only corals I've ever had a problem with using CoralRx on. So, I just use Lugol's. The best I can generically say is "smooth-skinned acros". If I was to give a list, it'd consist of A. echinata, A. caroliniana, whatever sp the ORA Aussie Delicate is, A. paniculata, and A. turaki. Those are just the ones I've had personal experience...but I would extend my personal experience to other smooth-skinned Acropora as well (better safe than sorry!)

 

[jhoff]

Well i was sitting on the fence with this one.I bit the bullet and dipped it in one gallon of tank water & 4 capfuls of coralRX for 5min going on day 3 and so far so good fingers crossed.Thanks for all the replys

Jim

 

[sfexplicit]

I've lost 2 frags of Hawkins in Revive and an Echinata as well.

 

[spartanfish]

Bump

I just got a nice haul of frags on Thursday, some zoas, acan, and a bunch of sps. After acclimating in the bags, I dipped everything for about 7-10 minutes in a regular strength solution of the Coral RX/tank water, then rinsed with tank water and placed in QT tank. I am also running Prazipro and Interceptor in the QT tank. Everything (about 10 pieces) looks fine except the Hawkins which started losing tissue all over within 24 hours, and looks even worse today, pretty sure it's gonna be a goner by tomorrow.

There was a small piece of Red Dragon that fell in the bottom of the bag and I re-glued it to a frag plug and treated it the same as the other frags. It reacted the same way. lost a small piece of tissue after about 24 hours and was total skeleton by this morning. Thank goodness the big red dragon frag looks OK so far. holding my breath on that. Maybe the small piece was just too small to make it anyway, but I have my suspicions.

I do a LOT of reading up on things, but you can't read every post in the history of RC and I'm really sorry I missed this one. Going to have to re-purchase that Hawkins now and it was a nicer-sized frag too. I just wanted to bring this thread back up as a reminder in case there are any other newer-to-acros lurkers like me reading the board