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Hello,
Thanks for your question we are happy to share our quarantine methods. Importing new Coral and getting in any new coral from any source including buying from vendors- all corals should be quarantined. White bugs, Red Bugs and Flatworms are all very easy to kill. Black bugs though IMO are hard. So, at the very least any new incoming coral should be quarantined and observed before putting into a main system.
We use potassium chloride for all our dips and interceptor for red and white bugs.
For the potassium chloride we dip all corals (Torch, Acro, Mushrooms, and goni ect) in a bath 1 gallon of salt water for 10 minutes with 2 tablespoons. The corals actually love this dip and flatworms will fall off in 3 minutes. We have left the corals in this dip for 40 minutes by accident and there was no ill effect to the coral.
For the interceptor we use 9 large dog pills per 550 gallons and do an in-tank treatment for 24 hours. I know this sounds like a heavy dosage, but white bugs will not die unless the dosage is that high. With this large dosage we don’t see any ill affect on the corals. The corals look better with more PE after these treatments. Be aware though that all pods and crabs will die off. Due to this we don’t keep crabs in our system only snails. Snails will not die.
Now for our routine on all incoming imports.
We have a dedicated 360-gallon system for all new imports. This system has all frags racks so the corals can all be dipped at once. We dip the corals a total of 8 times 8 weeks in a row and use interceptor every other week for 8 weeks to make sure anything is killed of. We take each of the racks out and then they fit into these huge plastic tubs so we can dip all corals within 1 hour. This is easy so you don’t have to dip the corals individually.
I hope this writeups helps and happy reefing! We are happy to answer any follow up questions you may have.
see below pics
below is our incoming system for all new shipments. you can see how we have these racks setup so we can take all the racks out with the corals on them to dip the full racks at once. We actually just emptied out this tank into the main system as we are expecting a big shipment tomorrow so need to make room. The quartining cycle was also complete so the corals where ready to be moved into the main systems.
These are the bins we use to dip the racks. Each rack is cut to the same size as the bins
below is the interceptor we use 9 pills per 550 gallons. 24 hours in tank treatment and then do 20% water change following day. Turn off skimmer.
below is the Potassium chloride dip we use 2 tablespoon per 1 gallons
Below is a closeup of our rack system
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