Coral Dip & Bacteria

[darb]

Are any coral dips bacteria friendly?

I am looking to dip some live rock and only keep the bacteria.

 

[xxkenny90xx]

What are you looking to remove? Maybe a high salinity dip would be better?

 

[darb]

Well working "up" from Marco rocks and want to carefully manage everything that I introduce into the tank.

Planning on doing initial cycle with bacteria in a bottle and from there to diversify bacterial strains would like to introduce "safe" natural live rock. So essentially looking for a quick and easy way to remove any potential undesirables.

As a last step I am going to qt either natural or farmed live rock to introduce more diversity.

How effective would hypo/hyper salinity work?

 

[xxkenny90xx]

It would be effective at getting worms and crabs and other inverts off. It wouldn't help with things like aiptasia or mojanos

 

[darb]

Yes ok, good point; perhaps time to start quarantining my rock.