Which SPS do not respond well to dipping?

[cwegescheide]

Sharing my experience with the Hawkins in QT I thought it would be good to have a thread of SPS that do not respond well to dipping. Please post what your were using to dip the coral. Either Coral RX, Revive, TMPCC or Iodine etc..

I think I am going to wait until I'm close to done adding corals (yeah right..) to my new tank and then get the "hard to QT corals" and go easy on them, maybe half strength dips but spend 2x as long in QT. I will probably nuke the heck out of my QT with no corals with Levamisol etc before to clear out the QT or just leave with no SPS for a while before hand.

I guess I should add a little about my QT system. I have a 20H tank with an Aquamedic 250HQI w/14K Pheonix bulb about 20" above the water. It does have a small sump with a heater and a fan. I have two powerheads in there for circulation and a piece of LR about 10lbs I'd say. I do have a tang in there to help keep algae under control. Total water volume is about 35gal I'd say. When I do my weekly water changes I drain 10 gallons out of the main tank and put in the QT. I do not add any supplements other than weak kalkwasser in the top off. I don't have a skimmer on this tank. I do have a Neptune controller from my old display that I slapped on there since I had it laying around but I don't think you need anything that sophisticated. Otherwise I would just use timers.

IME Torts, Hawkins and Plana's have not responded well at all to dipping. I used to use TMPCC exclusively but I think Revive is not near as harsh. Coral RX I think is very close to Revive.

So which corals have you had problems with in QT? How long did it last in QT and what were you using to dip at what concentration?

Thanks,
Chris

 

[bassking16]

Good thread. I'm going to follow along on this one.

The only coral that I have found to react poorly with dipping is Joe the Coral. I have had this coral three times. Two were dipped prior to goin in the tank, and were both completely dead within 24 hours. The third was never dipped, but still died within three days. Maybe this is just my unicorn coral, but the two did seem to react negatively to dipping. By the way, I use revive, and never had any other problems.

 

[cwegescheide]

Hmm.. I have a small JTC frag I've dipped 4 times with Coral RX concentrate that looks like really bad but still has its polyps out. Its about 3/4". Hopefully it can hang on for 2 more dips then in the tank.

 

[smokenax]

lost hawkins and turakis dipped with revive.

 

[Rouselb]

lost Icefire with Revive. Hawkins was the same, i broke a frag off and it was nuked once it hit the Revive Dip, the rest that remained in my QT was fine. Seems like smooth skin acros are more sensitive.

 

[Reefer577]

I use Tropic Marin Procoral Cure and have no major ill effects. I try not to leave them in longer than 15 min, otherwise they loose zoanthellae esp tricolor and other low tissue sps.