Anyone ever dipped live rock in Coral dip?

[McCarrick]

Hello all!
My 40 gallon tank leaked badly and all of my stuff had to go to my closest LFS quickly. This particular LFS definitely has some pests. I've saw a lot of Euphillia eating flatworms last time I dipped coral from them as well as aiptasia, bristle worms, and asterna stars. Since all of my coral and live rock got taken to the store for holding and I'd like to not bring a bunch of pests back on my rock, has anyone ever tried dipping live rock in coral dip and then giving it a really good rinse in several buckets of salt water afterwards?

 

[liddojunior]

I wouldn’t , live rock is soo porous that dips would get in and it would just leech out and probably negatively impact your corals.

For live rock, you will basically have to make it not live anymore. You can put the rocks in RODI for an hour have all the critters come out. And then put into new bucket of clean RODI for a couple days.

You’re going to probably have to cure it, it’s gonna have lots of dead matter.

As for the corals you’re going to have to quarantine. I wouldn’t be dipping corals after stressful moves and changes.


The best thing for you is to assess your risk. Every reef tank is gonna have apatasia, bristle worms, and the stars are common. it’s all about management.

The only real issue is the flatworms, if you have hammers/torches. Just quarantine those, and treat as needed. And same goes from SPS flatworms.

 

[liddojunior]

To add, there are also natural ways to handle pest so don’t need to go to chemicals.

Arrowhead crabs eat bristleworms. Harlequin shrimp eats starfish
Aptasia has a few natural predators.

And manual removal works for starfish and aptasia depending how bad the issue is

 

[I never finish anythi]

Red Sea DipX is a coral bath to keep your reef aquarium trouble-free and works by repelling coral hitchhikers without harming coral. It's made up of a specific blend of three essential oils without any inorganic elements such as potassium iodide or bromide and disperses all macroscopic motile organisms. DipX has proven to be totally safe for the corals and is safe for SPS, LPS, soft coral, Zoanthids, mushroom anemones and live rock.

 

[McCarrick]

My problem is that I'm on deployment out of the country and am trying to solve these problems from the other side of the world. There's no space for quarantine so the whole thing sort of just is what it is. My live rock has some coral on it that was glued down and don't want to dip it in RODI because of that. I'll give DipX a shot and still do as much rinsing as possible afterwards and hopefully that'll help! Thanks all for the replies

 

[jrill]

Kinda defeats the purpose of buying live rock

 

[Poshangcun]

I wouldn’t , live rock is soo porous that dips would get in and it would just leech out and probably negatively impact your corals.

For live rock, you will basically have to make it not live anymore. You can put the rocks in RODI for an hour have all the critters come out. And then put into new bucket of clean RODI for a couple days.

You’re going to probably have to cure it, it’s gonna have lots of dead matter.

As for the corals you’re going to have to quarantine. I wouldn’t be dipping corals after stressful moves and changes.


The best thing for you is to assess your risk. Every reef tank is gonna have apatasia, bristle worms, and the stars are common. it’s all about management.

The only real issue is the flatworms, if you have hammers/torches. Just quarantine those, and treat as needed. And same goes from SPS flatworms.

I agree. I don’t see how dipping live rock would be feasible.

 

[KrisReef]

5 minutes in Potassium Chloride and then rinse well

 

[McCarrick]

Kinda defeats the purpose of buying live rock

I'm aware of this issue. My rock has coral on it, I'm not trying to kill everything on it, just things like flatworms