Seaweed / gorgonians

[whatnot45]

I just got back from a trip to a small island off the coast of georgia called Tybee island. Its just south of south carolina. Any ways, I found this really pretty red seaweed floting arround in the waves. It is thin and stringy with fern leaf shaped ends. I thought i would take some back home with me to put in my 29 gallon SH tank to be. However, I want to make sure that it will not bring any bad diseases or anything like that into my tank. Should I add it? I also have a dwarf seahorse tank recently treated for hydroids with panacur. Would it be safe to put some in ther?

I also found a purple gorgonian. Would this be ok as well?

 

[hydroid]

Hmmm ... never done anything straight from the ocean before. I would at least freshwater dip the plants to rid of ectoparsites. Can you dip a gorg?

Hopefully someone who has done this will chime in.

 

[Fishfreak218]

you can FW dip gorg im pretty sure... i think people do it to get the algea off of the gorg

 

[cmsargent]

You can freshwater dip them.

I'd be careful about adding the gorg to your drawf tank though. The panacur stays in the rock for a long time and will leach back into the water and may kill the gorg. The macroalgae should be fine.