mjw011689
Active Member
I’ll start by saying I can’t seem to find a section on here that really goes over this, if I missed it please point me there.
I’m curious what the current “best” or most agreed upon qt procedure for coral is. Obviously nothings fail safe, and obviously a large portion of you just toss coral in and either never have problems or it’s been years since you have. I have zero interest in that method.
What, in your opinion, is the best method to qt corals, starting with dipping/treatment. I’m thinking g bring corals into a qt system, observe and acclimate for a couple days. Then dip, either in a coral dip or peroxide solution, and then go back to observing for multiple weeks.
Is there any benefit to dipping weekly in qt? Is there any benefit to having a multi tank process to move into new tanks after dipping?
I got lucky for 20 years nearly, never really had catastrophes anyways… and I’ve now lost almost every coral in 2 days due to BJD. I also found that it is not only LPS/Euphyllia that are affected. I lost every sps as well. Parameters have never been better than the last 6 months, the only thing that changed was adding a couple hammers about a week prior. Going forward I will no longer rely on an initial dip and toss em in.
I’m curious what the current “best” or most agreed upon qt procedure for coral is. Obviously nothings fail safe, and obviously a large portion of you just toss coral in and either never have problems or it’s been years since you have. I have zero interest in that method.
What, in your opinion, is the best method to qt corals, starting with dipping/treatment. I’m thinking g bring corals into a qt system, observe and acclimate for a couple days. Then dip, either in a coral dip or peroxide solution, and then go back to observing for multiple weeks.
Is there any benefit to dipping weekly in qt? Is there any benefit to having a multi tank process to move into new tanks after dipping?
I got lucky for 20 years nearly, never really had catastrophes anyways… and I’ve now lost almost every coral in 2 days due to BJD. I also found that it is not only LPS/Euphyllia that are affected. I lost every sps as well. Parameters have never been better than the last 6 months, the only thing that changed was adding a couple hammers about a week prior. Going forward I will no longer rely on an initial dip and toss em in.
