Sps Quarantine procedure?

[N4sty T4te]

Just picked up several mariculture/wild Acropora colonies.

They've been sitting in the QT for 3 days or so. All are doing well at the moment.

So far I've done the intitial Bayer dip, then hit them with some flow before putting them
into the system.

So what's next? I'm going for the super cautious approach.

1. Should I just automatically treat for redbugs with interceptor? Or leave it be unless I see them in the system?

2. What kind of Bayer dip timeline should I be doing? Twice a week, once a week?
I've seen no signs of them at this point.

3. I have spotted one aiptasia, my plan was to just break off the rock it is on.

Ordinarily I would cut these all from the rock they were attached too, but most of them are colonies, and it's not going to be easy to cut them from the base rock. So aim fine with going the extra mile and waiting a bit longer in Qt. Have a bad feeling about trying to cut them.

Is there another method for treating plugs? Like coating them in something? Or?

Anyways, up to this point I have only bought aquacultured frags so just not sure what the best approach is to QT.

Any insight would be awesome! Thx!

 

[moseley75]

Following.

 

[saltyfilmfolks]

I would wait. Honestly 14 to 30 days. It'll give time for eggs to hatch. (that's when you want to kill stuff. ) many actually choose longer.
And it gives time for possibly benificial and cool animals to produce themseslves. Like acro crabs and brittle stars.

Algae is another concern. Repeated dips of coral cleaners like revive and others actually do work to kill algae, but its a repeated dip in qt and most don't do that. Qt also allows time for algaes to produce themselves.

That's my .02

 

[moseley75]

How often do you dip and for how long?

 

[saltyfilmfolks]

My self , 5 to ten, depends on the coral and the dip used.

Peroxide is very harsh and more so in higher concentration for example and shouldn't imo be used for thin skinned corals like acros and many Sps.

 

[nervousmonkey]

My advice from buying wild acro colonies like you did, is to simply wait. Just observe for now. Wild acro colonies are hard to get adjusted, so the more you just let them adjust, the better off they will be. Even if they start to look bad. I have a wild birdsnest that took a long time to come around, so just give them time, let them rest where they are, and you'll have some cool colonies in a month or two.

 

[N4sty T4te]

My advice from buying wild acro colonies like you did, is to simply wait. Just observe for now. Wild acro colonies are hard to get adjusted, so the more you just let them adjust, the better off they will be. Even if they start to look bad. I have a wild birdsnest that took a long time to come around, so just give them time, let them rest where they are, and you'll have some cool colonies in a month or two.

Im not concerned about keeping them alive. That's not a problem. I'm concerned about them introducing pests into the system