Whats your Dipping Technique

[FiReBReTHa]

for new zoas, Post up!

EDIT
Also, Where do you typically purchase your additives from so hopefully that helps everyone, and local reefers find what you are using.

Danke.

 

[Hypertek99]

I use TMPCC for like 5-10mins

 

[SaraB]

I use Coral Revive.

 

[MikeB]

Coral Revive and Lugols

 

[TonyB]

Revive, 1.5x recommended dosage for 20 minutes. Nothing lives through that

 

[mikedelgado]

I usually dont dip em cause I rarely buy wild caught stuff, mostly frags from other reefers. By the time they get to me they are usually not too happy brom being fragged & shipped so I dont dip em for fear of further stressing them out. My wrasse eats zoo nudis and their eggs so I am not too worried about zoo pests. I would prob dip a wild caught piece but not tiny home grown stuff with 1 polyp glued to a plug hanging on for dear life

 

[Murfman]

I usually dont dip em cause I rarely buy wild caught stuff, mostly frags from other reefers. By the time they get to me they are usually not too happy brom being fragged & shipped so I dont dip em for fear of further stressing them out. My wrasse eats zoo nudis and their eggs so I am not too worried about zoo pests. I would prob dip a wild caught piece but not tiny home grown stuff with 1 polyp glued to a plug hanging on for dear life

What kind of Wrasse do you have?

 

[tankerman]

lugols

 

[mikedelgado]

hey murphman
he was sold to me as a green coris wrasse, he was about an inch and cost 9 bucks. I had zoo nudis and pyramid snails on my clams at the time.he ate all of them. he doesnt eat my clean up crew or my cleaner shrimp but he loves bristle worms and nudis. whenever I move a rock or something in the tank he goes rushing in and eats whatever was under it.pretty cool fish.

 

[reefboy]

Revive, 1.5x recommended dosage for 20 minutes. Nothing lives through that

I have to admit im really liking this product and it will kill most everything or stun it so it falls off

 

[dtpollard]

I use a double dip process on my new zoas and on any that are not doing well.
For new zoas by tank water I mean Quarantine tank. I don't like to dip them right after shipping stress.
Step 1: 75% tank water 25% Hydrogen Peroxide. for about 2 minutes. Shake frag around before removing then put in step 2 container.
Step 2: Very small bowl 4 inch by 2.5 inch deep. Tank water w/ 2 drops of Lugols mixed in. About 5 minutes. Place back in tank.

This has worked extremely well for me.

 

[FiReBReTHa]

Do any big box lfs carry coral revive?

 

[Murfman]

hey murphman
he was sold to me as a green coris wrasse, he was about an inch and cost 9 bucks. I had zoo nudis and pyramid snails on my clams at the time.he ate all of them. he doesnt eat my clean up crew or my cleaner shrimp but he loves bristle worms and nudis. whenever I move a rock or something in the tank he goes rushing in and eats whatever was under it.pretty cool fish.

I have a yellow and he pretty much does the same thing. I didn't know they ate Nudis though.

 

[SaraB]

Do any big box lfs carry coral revive?

I don't recall seeing any around in the lfs in the Chicagoland area. I have a few bottles in the basement though

 

[mikedelgado]

hey murfman
about a year after my nudis were gone I recieved a freeby zoo rock from one of our vendors, It was definately a wild caught piece. I could see the nudis on it, there were even some loose in the shipping bag. I plopped the infested rock into my tank and the wrass immediately tore them up. I still have polyps from that rock to this day. I think the yelow coris and the green coris are basically the same fish

 

[TonyB]

I think the yelow coris and the green coris are basically the same fish

Depends on your lighting