iodine dip to save acro?

[mcpeachy]

i need to refrag the acro that is dying and i know world wide corals recommends iodine dip but i'm not sure the concentration. anyone know. i have lugels. how long?

 

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Personally if I dip in iodine i just add it untill it looks dark enough and let it sit for a minute, does the coral have STN from the base?

 

[Hemmdog]

Imo it’s more stressful on the coral to touch it, move it, take it out of water, dip in chemicals, put in a cup to get chemicals off, and reintroduce. I’ve lost 100% of the acros I’ve attempted to dip and save. I’ve lost about 30% of the ones that I just left in the tank that we’re having stn. They will regrow over the dead.

3 months ago

Yesterday

I just left this pink lemonade in the tank. This was the worst and quickest rtn I've ever seen, yet somehow it found a way to regrow

 

[mcpeachy]

Personally if I dip in iodine i just add it untill it looks dark enough and let it sit for a minute, does the coral have STN from the base?

what is STN i'm new. the tissue was lost overnight at the base and moved upwards. i made new tiny tiny frags with like 3 polyps. can something survive that small?

 

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what is STN i'm new. the tissue was lost overnight at the base and moved upwards. i made new tiny tiny frags with like 3 polyps. can something survive that small?

Yeah but it can be hard to get small frags to grow. STN stands for slow tissue necrosis and RTN is Rapid tissue necrosis. If something dies overnight its RTN if it is slowly dying over weeks its STN. I would frag it and leave it. Don't dip it but I've had good luck fragging it as it stops the infections personally. Not sure what caused your death, if something is off the new frags probably won't live