What is the difference between Coral Rx and Revive?

[taylormaximus]

I hear a lot of people talk about these dips, and where I live Revive is available at my LFS but coral Rx only online. I've found information saying that Coral Rx knocks off a whole slew of things, including bristle worms, fireworms, flatworms, nudis, spiders, planaria, and even bacterial infections and algae, and a lot of people say that Revive works just as well, but I cannot for the life of me find any information about what Revive actually treats? It seems a little odd that it gets compared to Coral Rx if that's the case.

Not sure if this is the right place to post this, but I didn't see a forum for coral dipping. Thanks for the help!

 

[Lavey29]

I thought RX was for pest control but revive is more for unhealthy corals with possible bacteria infections or maybe after fragging? Not sure though.

 

[vetteguy53081]

I hear a lot of people talk about these dips, and where I live Revive is available at my LFS but coral Rx only online. I've found information saying that Coral Rx knocks off a whole slew of things, including bristle worms, fireworms, flatworms, nudis, spiders, planaria, and even bacterial infections and algae, and a lot of people say that Revive works just as well, but I cannot for the life of me find any information about what Revive actually treats? It seems a little odd that it gets compared to Coral Rx if that's the case.

Not sure if this is the right place to post this, but I didn't see a forum for coral dipping. Thanks for the help!

Coral revive by Julian sprung is a classified cleaner and Dip (I call it dip) which is a plant extract and coral RX is a prophylactic pesticide which treats bacterial and infectious issues with coral and is also made of extracts but stronger but still safe for coral treatment, very similar to Bayer
I use coralRx exclusively and dilute it with tank water a little.

 

[taylormaximus]

Coral revive by Julian sprung is a classified cleaner and Dip (I call it dip) which is a plant extract and coral RX is a prophylactic pesticide which treats bacterial and infectious issues with coral and is also made of extracts but stronger but still safe for coral treatment, very similar to Bayer
I use coralRx exclusively and dilute it with tank water a little.

So I definitely would not say they're interchangeable then... Do you know what Revive treats? Is it only good for sterilizing already existing infections? My understanding is that it doesn't really do anything prophylactically.

 

[vetteguy53081]

So I definitely would not say they're interchangeable then... Do you know what Revive treats? Is it only good for sterilizing already existing infections? My understanding is that it doesn't really do anything prophylactically.

Its more of a cleanser and light dip.
I can safely say, ive tried all of the dips out there and found coralRX most effective and safe.

 

[IPT]

I recently used Revive and Coral RX. From looking at the bottom of the bucket afterwards the Coral RX was a lot more effective.

I Think revive is for a low level dip or a struggling coral, not so much for an know parasite or pest, but thats just my take on it.

 

[taylormaximus]

I recently used Revive and Coral RX. From looking at the bottom of the bucket afterwards the Coral RX was a lot more effective.

I Think revive is for a low level dip or a struggling coral, not so much for an know parasite or pest, but thats just my take on it.

I appreciate it! I'll definitely be using rx if I can track it down.

 

[VintageReefer]

I have both. Started with revive years ago but it caused sps to bleach. Never had issue with non sps

Ended up buying coralrx. This never caused any issues for me for any type of coral.

Coralrx has since been my go to first choice for new corals about to come in my tank, but I do understand there are different functions between the two products so I keep both.

 

[taylormaximus]

I have both. Started with revive years ago but it caused sps to bleach. Never had issue with non sps

Ended up buying coralrx. This never caused any issues for me for any type of coral.

Coralrx has since been my go to first choice for new corals about to come in my tank, but I do understand there are different functions between the two products so I keep both.

I went with Coral Rx and so far has worked great. Have you found Revive does anything that Rx doesn't?

 

[VintageReefer]

To be honest once I switched to coral rx I have had no issues with any corals, I have visually seen it kill off critters, and I’ve seen no reason to try revive again

I have had good results with revive but it bleached out and killed two larger sps frags on me and I haven’t tried it again since

 

[VintageReefer]

I think of revive more as a product if you have an injured or sick coral vs dipping and sterilizing a new coral

 

[paragrouper]

Coral RX came to me highly recommended and it is all I have used. I will certainly recommend Coral RX.