Coral dip plan

[mjk42]

Hi everyone,

I am anticipating my first shipment of coral for my new tank from Top shelf Aquatics this week. I have been reading a lot of dips for the corals and realize that opinions are wide and often targeted towards specific pests. I am new to all of this just wanted to make sure my plan was reasonable before the box shows up at my door! Corals are a mix of LPS (hammer, candy cane, favia, acan and blasto) and a SPS (acro, monti and birdnest) and I wanted to ideally target one dip plan for all of them.

1) Dip in KCl 2 tablespoons mixed in one gallon of tank water for 10mins --> this seems to be a gentle and highly recommended dip for pests in general
2) Rinse in tank water
3) Dip in hydrogen peroxide 20-40ml/ 1/4 gallon tank water for 5 mins --> This is the very low end concentration for H2O2 I found in another post. This dip seems good for pests algae?
4) Rinse in tank water

Is this a reasonable approach?? Do I need to take the coral off of the frag plugs? I don't necessarily anticipate that corals from a aquaculture seller like top shelf would have the same pest burden as wild corals but figured I should do something just to make sure.

Thanks for any advice!

 

[Sophie"s mom]

I have only ever used Tropic Marin Coral clean. Hopefully someone else can chime in on this.

 

[Unstoppable algae!]

I have only ever used Tropic Marin Coral clean. Hopefully someone else can chime in on this.

I’m beginning to like coral clean, I know it’s iodine and thought it was mainly for stn or helping with bacteria infections.
Recently dipped an Acro for LFS and a flat worn cane off/ died which is promising. Also no sps losses when using

I bought Red Sea dipx (I think is the name) because they claim it kills red bugs. I have lost several sps due to dipping following their instructions

I’ll use revive for 5 min also, I find can be harsh at 10+ min

Also following. I’d like to find a good dip that is not Bayer or a interceptor