NanoCube-boy
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Thanks. Great job for first time. Is that method safe for Marine fish? What about inverts? You should keep that unkown crab.
Zoo Dip
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NanoCube-boy
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Thanks. Great job for first time. Is that method safe for Marine fish? What about inverts? You should keep that unkown crab.
saltman123
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That crab rocks! Hopefully you didn't kill it in the process.
NanoCube-boy
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Yea, that will be kind of mest up if you did. Have you ever find out what crab is that? Any information it?
NanoCube-boy
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I see, is he in your tank?
b.branscombe
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Could this dip be used as a preventative measure for any corals being introduced to your system?
NanoCube-boy
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Yea, but it might be different, I'm not sure. I'm just about to ask the same question and ADD fish and inverts too?
aquarius77
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I just did it as a preventative measure but i think i ma have over dipped? Is it possible to use to much iodine?
I set my bucket with about a gallon and a half of ro/di and brought it to temp/ph, I then added about 15 - 20 drops of lugols and 4-6 drops of flatworm exit. I let them sit in the dip for about 5 mins and i shook and twisted and blasted with a turkey baster.
The thing is they slimed this clear jelly lookin stuff? Has anyone else ever seen this? Then once in my reef i noticed they seemed to shed a layer of skin off, is this normal after a dip? belive it or not they are opening already but im almost sure i overdid it.
I set my bucket with about a gallon and a half of ro/di and brought it to temp/ph, I then added about 15 - 20 drops of lugols and 4-6 drops of flatworm exit. I let them sit in the dip for about 5 mins and i shook and twisted and blasted with a turkey baster.
The thing is they slimed this clear jelly lookin stuff? Has anyone else ever seen this? Then once in my reef i noticed they seemed to shed a layer of skin off, is this normal after a dip? belive it or not they are opening already but im almost sure i overdid it.
NanoCube-boy
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Anyone know the answer?
Canarygirl
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I used this dip on 5 zoa rocks this evening, wearing disposable reef gloves on both hands. I killed a couple of nudis and one egg sack. When I was done I noticed water had gotten into both gloves...typical for the disposables.
That reminded me that zoas are EXTREMELY DEADLY POISONOUS and I think people should be reminded to wear good quality reef gloves. Especially considering that you will be gripping the zoa rocks quite tightly in order to swoosh them around in the dip properly. The thin disposable gloves are not safe enough, IMO, to use while doing this procedure.
better safe than sorry (or dead)
That reminded me that zoas are EXTREMELY DEADLY POISONOUS and I think people should be reminded to wear good quality reef gloves. Especially considering that you will be gripping the zoa rocks quite tightly in order to swoosh them around in the dip properly. The thin disposable gloves are not safe enough, IMO, to use while doing this procedure.
better safe than sorry (or dead)
I too would be interested in seeing some pics of zoa fungus. I cant figure out what is happening to my zoas. I dont think it is pox I cant see any big bumps just a few smaller than sand. My polys started out getting some red stuff on them that I cant brush off. It started with a few polyps on a couple colonies and now it is on 4 or 5 big colonies and a lot of frags,destroying all of them. Ive dipped almost every zoa I have and it hasnt seemed to help.Ive pulled a few nudis and had a big outbreak of sundial snails,Ive gotten almost all of the snails by picking them off the rocks but it hasnt seemed to help the zoas at all they seem to continue to get worse. I havent really seen any pics or read any discussions that sound like my problem. I dont think its anything with light or flow or water quality because a lot of the colonies will be open but once a poly turns red it never opens again and it progresses steadily across the colony. Has anyone had anything similar happen? Does it sound like predators or fungus? I can post some pics,I posted about this a couple of weeks ago with pics and got no response since then Ive lost about half of my zoas.
Canarygirl
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Well I've done this dip 3 times now, 2-3 days apart. The third time I did it, most of my zoas won't open at all, even after 24 hours! I dipped several zoa covered rocks, so it's quite a few polyps that aren't opening. I'm worried....
Racktacular
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Normal handling...deadly poisonous? A little extreme, no?
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NanoCube-boy
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oh. I wear gloves when I handle them.
Canarygirl
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If you think it's extreme to wear gloves/goggles when handling zoanthids, you haven't done enough research on palytoxin....
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