Tissue loss after dipping - Recoverable?

[mneville277]

Think I screwed up and am hoping it is recoverable...

I picked up a Hawkins acro frag and a lavender bottlebrush gorgonian this week along with a couple other frags. Given the Hawkins sensitivity to dipping, I used a weaker Coral Rx mix and dipped for 5 minutes - rinsed and into QT.

Woke up this morning and discovered a lot of tissue loss on both the Hawkins and the gorg in random spots - some on the ends, in the middle, or at the bases. Not all branches are affected, but I don't want to mess with them too much until I have a game plan to remedy this.

10g QT, specific gravity - 1.023, pH - 8.2, NH3 - 0, NO2 - 0, NO3 - 1, Ca2 - 420, Alk - 9.

I read something about superglueing at the ends of the tissue loss to prevent spreading or fragging off the necrosis-affected branches, but I don't want to stress these things out more than necessary.

What is the course of action here? Will the tissue regrow over the exposed skeleton or are my choices bare or thin branches?

 

[gdemos]

Sometimes you have to toss pieces. Sometimes the dip the move the new system is enough to put a piece over the edge. You may have the best system on the planet and this may still happen. Something like an echinata will be more susceptible to stress from a dip; nonetheless a good dip will serve well in the long run. If it doesn't make it through a 1/2 strength dip for 1/2 the time then it wasn't meant to be imo.