Dino 1 Man 0: Help Please

[jschultzbass]

I'm going through something similar right now. Was going to upgrade tanks anyway so hopefully I can get rid of it. For SPS corals, how do you get the dino off them when you transfer over?

 

[Reefing Madness]

Dip em. Coral dip that is.

 

[Pikemartin]

Reefing madness:

So when I transfer the Zoas to the QT what coral dip do I use to rid the dino before placing them in there?

Same with hermits/snails? The shells have alge on them. Or should trade them into LFS for in store credit?

 

[Pikemartin]

Reefer?

 

[Reefing Madness]

Sorry. I believe you use the Peroxide Dip. But I can get joshporksandwich to confirm this.

 

[joshporksandwich]

Sorry. I believe you use the Peroxide Dip. But I can get joshporksandwich to confirm this.

Peroxide will get rid of them but it takes a few dips. Also when you dip in peroxide I've notice that my tang eats it when it didn't even look at it before. A new method I tried was filling a tank with 100 blue leg hermits and putting my frags in there and every frag was spotless within 2 days. I've had hair algae, dino, cyano and it's been clean always. For briopsis I did the same but with 3 or 4 lettuce nudies because hermits don't like it as much. I hope this helps

 

[Pikemartin]

Josh:
Well I have about 10 hermits and 10 snails. About 10 frags of rare expensive Zoas. I won't ever have a tang as it's in a 60g cube. What ratio peroxide with water do I make the dip? I'm worried about the Zoas more than the cuc. I can trade the cuc for LFS credit.

 

[Reefing Madness]

More info in this link
https://www.reef2reef.com/forums/zoa-discussion-club-zoa/16937-zoa-dip-hydrogen-peroxide.html

 

[joshporksandwich]

Josh:
Well I have about 10 hermits and 10 snails. About 10 frags of rare expensive Zoas. I won't ever have a tang as it's in a 60g cube. What ratio peroxide with water do I make the dip? I'm worried about the Zoas more than the cuc. I can trade the cuc for LFS credit.

Try getting more of a cleanup crew. Even a small urchin if you can. I would get like 50 blue legs.

 

[Pikemartin]

I've heard dino kills hermits and snails if they eat it. I don't really wanna have all the cuc sitting in the QT for 2 months. The DT will be drained then re cycled which would take month at least.

 

[Reefing Madness]

I'd go the route of Peroxide Dipping the coral. I'd not add any inverts to the tank.

 

[Pikemartin]

Thanks for the help everyone

 

[joshporksandwich]

Ok peroxide dip. Probably i've never had dyno then.