The "cure" for dying corals?
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The light explanations and timing to look bad were very useful. I’m also goiNg to get that dip you recommend for euphyllia.
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Recently, my wife did a fresh water and iodine dip on some corals from my quarantine tank. It was well intended, but it led to the insta-death of 2 birds nests and 1 lepto. She did not know that salt water had to be used for dips. It caused some pretty bad polyp ruptured on my yellow hammer and tissue damage to a sun coral and goniopora. To combat this on the corals that weren’t completely dead, I have been doing daily spot feeding to the hammer, sun coral, and goni. I spot feed them in a cup of salt water outside of the tank with reefroids and phytoplankton for 30 minutes, then add a single drop of reef dip (iodine) by seachem to hopefully keep the damaged tissue sterilized. I am seeing slow, positive results from this treatment. You can see a thin film on the sun coral that I hope is regrowing fleshy tissue to cover the exposed polyp. It has a subtle feeding response; I don’t know if it’s hopeless but I’m doing by best haha.
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How long did she dip them for? I find doing a quick rodi water dip can help loosen some critters like asterina star fish. But i do it quickly, non medicated and put them back in salt.
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15 minute tap water soak, no prime and 10ml iodine lol they ded
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@Ryanbrs, this is a very helpful video. All if your videos are awesome and very informative!
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Lol. I suspect the tap water was the issue there. I’ve never tried that method though. Guess I’ll continue staying away from it. ;Hilarious Terrible way to learn that lesson.
I've dipped probably 30 corals in the past year and a bottle of coralrx has an expiration date that isn't very long. I've just started ordering the One Shot CoralRx at $2.99 a pack. If you don't plan on dipping alot of corals it works out perfect. That and Bayer dip you can grab at lowes are all I've ever used. Never had a problem with pests.
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Why does BRS recommend this?Coral RX has proven its worth time and time again. With new corals from so many different sources, whenever we dip our corals here at BRS we almost always find some type of pest or critter that we do not want in our tank.Single Use One Shot - 1 mL
