Coral dip/coral glue/quick set

[Brian Coble]

Hello everyone

I am definitely no rookie. I have been reefing for over 20 years but back in 2010 I tore my 6 year old 150 gallon reef tank down due to having to move so I have started over with a 70.3 Waterbox reef tank. It has been up and running for about 5 months now.
I will share pictures of my tank sometime later but would like some clarification or opinions on coral dip, coral glue, and the Insta set Excelerator ,
I have never used these products in my past which I consider a bad idea so I figured this would be a good place to start and to also teach the newbies that are also looking for help.

So feel free to join in on the conversation, this should be a good topic and thank you to everyone who does participate

So with this being said have any of you used any of these products and if you have what are your thoughts and results?

 

[Dimmy007]

I have used the coral RX. I like it. I have used it by itself and I have I used it in conjunction with Bayer weed killer. I don't have any unwanted pests so I would say that it works. As far as glue I use a couple different kinds. As long as it is a gel it seems to work good.

 

[Crossfire]

I like coral RX a lot too. Kills everything on the frag plus it smells nice lol.

That BRS quick set is kind of a joke though. Water in a spray bottle does the exact same thing.

 

[Brian Coble]

Short recording of my new reef tank.

 

[Brian Coble]

 

[Brian Coble]

The pictures above are the corals I just purchased, does anybody have any idea of the names of them?
Sorry for the bad pictures, took them with my iPhone 10

 

[KevTide]

I don't mean to highjack your thread. But it is sort of relevant to something I've been questioning myself. I'm a newbie to saltwater tanks. Mine has been up and running for a little over a month now so it is in no way ready for corals. Zero ammonia, nitrites, and low nitrates so it has gone through the cycling phase. Now I'm dealing with some green hair algae. But really, my question is about how to add frags to a tank safely.

After much research, I discovered a video by Mike Polleta (sp?) in which he removes ALL corals from the frags before he introduces new specimens to his tank. He never uses the same frags that his new corals are attached to. He dips them in coral RX, and Bayer, and then refrags. His reasoning being that pests (including unhatched eggs) can live in the tiny holes and crevices of frags and may be inadvertantly introduced into a tank. Having a newly set up tank with (hopefully) no pests currently, I want to do the same thing as Mike (an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure, kind of thing). After dipping, should I glue the new coral to a live rock or to a frag and just place the frag onto the live rock? I've read suggestions by sellers to glue the coral in place on a live rock. But then, if you do that and you aren't happy with it's placement within the tank, how do you remove it after it's glued? Also, if it's glued to the rock, and it comes time to thin out a colony, how do you cut the coral? Remove the entire colony and cut outside of the tank? Stupid questions I suppose...just things I think of while I patiently wait to add my own corals.

 

[Brian Coble]

I don't mean to highjack your thread. But it is sort of relevant to something I've been questioning myself. I'm a newbie to saltwater tanks. Mine has been up and running for a little over a month now so it is in no way ready for corals. Zero ammonia, nitrites, and low nitrates so it has gone through the cycling phase. Now I'm dealing with some green hair algae. But really, my question is about how to add frags to a tank safely.

After much research, I discovered a video by Mike Polleta (sp?) in which he removes ALL corals from the frags before he introduces new specimens to his tank. He never uses the same frags that his new corals are attached to. He dips them in coral RX, and Bayer, and then refrags. His reasoning being that pests (including unhatched eggs) can live in the tiny holes and crevices of frags and may be inadvertantly introduced into a tank. Having a newly set up tank with (hopefully) no pests currently, I want to do the same thing as Mike (an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure, kind of thing). After dipping, should I glue the new coral to a live rock or to a frag and just place the frag onto the live rock? I've read suggestions by sellers to glue the coral in place on a live rock. But then, if you do that and you aren't happy with it's placement within the tank, how do you remove it after it's glued? Also, if it's glued to the rock, and it comes time to thin out a colony, how do you cut the coral? Remove the entire colony and cut outside of the tank? Stupid questions I suppose...just things I think of while I patiently wait to add my own corals.

First off I hate to be the bearer of bad news but I highly doubt your tank is cycled. I only say this because the tank I am currently running has been running for five months, the first two months I thought my tank was cycled then I checked my ammonia again and boom it was back so continue to let it just sit there and do it thing.

As far as removing frag’s from their plugs is something I do not do until I see coral growing onto my rock, then I remove the plug and then sell the rag plug with the coral on it

Don’t get me wrong there is probably 10 different opinions on this topic and as for the questions you asked they are not dumb, there is no such thing as a dumb question, the only dumb question is the one you don’t ask so make sure you ask everything and anything no matter how dumb you really think it is

Btw you didn’t hijack my thread, I am happy to see you are asking questions so if you wanna keep posting on my thread you are more than welcome to do so

Kind regards Brian

 

[tupes]

First your frags, the first looks like a red people eater zoa, the second looks like radioactive zoa. Not sure about the last 2.

I've used several different gel glues and IMO I find the BSI IC GEL to be one of the best ones for the price. I've never used the insta set, I just dip the plug the a little water and it starts curing so I dont think that's worth it. And coral RX I've used with good results, and a lot of folks will tell you to use Bayer insect killer. I'm just to nervous to use it but I know many people that do.

Also welcome to R2R.