New acro frag mortality rate

[ryshark]

For those with established SPS tanks what would you say your rate of a new acro frag dying on you within the first couple months? 1 or 0 out of every how many frags???
I know the health of the acquired frag matters. Let’s say at worst, the color looks good day one but no PE in the bag on arrival, as a worst case scenario.

 

[SeaDweller]

Maybe 2-3 of 15-20, last I checked, and I’m talking about straight up just STN over a couple of months.

 

[bobby.w.hodges]

I've only ever had 1 die after a week. I think buying healthy, healed frags helps, also drip acclimating them tji reduce stress.

 

[danoo]

Assuming 10 acro frags from a high quality source, I'd say on average 9 of them would still be alive after 2 months.

I've also had some luck salvaging frags where I catch the tissue death early (maybe the first or second night), frag the tips, dip in iodine and then remount. This works maybe 50% of the time. You end up with a much smaller frag but alive is alive!

 

[ryshark]

These replies make me feel a little better, I'm 8-months into a new tank and purposely started with a lot of KP aquatics rock and some IPSF biodiversity to avoid sps issues I had with my last tanks dry rock start up. I have 6-acros in my new tank and the latest being a couple weeks old and struggling a little bit now, the previous 5 are fine. For the last 4-days, every morning I expect to see an all white frag, but so far its still hanging in there.
This reminds me of many years ago before I took a long break, I had a thriving sps tank, but for some reason I just couldn't keep an ORA Pearlberry. Just one of those things, I guess.

 

[kaifish]

Probably 1 out of 15

 

[Charlie’s Frags]

0

 

[LOVEROCK]

I've only ever had 1 die after a week. I think buying healthy, healed frags helps, also drip acclimating them tji reduce stress.

tji?

 

[ryshark]

tji?

I think they meant “to” reduce stress. Speaking of which what does everybody do for acclamation, before dipping?
I Float to temperature - put the coral with its water in a red plastic cup - then add my tanks water To fill the other half of the cup - wait 10 minutes

 

[Charlie’s Frags]

I think they meant “to” reduce stress. Speaking of which what does everybody do for acclamation, before dipping?
I Float to temperature - put the coral with its water in a red plastic cup - then add my tanks water To fill the other half of the cup - wait 10 minutes

Temp acclimate and put it my qt.

 

[SeaDweller]

I think they meant “to” reduce stress. Speaking of which what does everybody do for acclamation, before dipping?
I Float to temperature - put the coral with its water in a red plastic cup - then add my tanks water To fill the other half of the cup - wait 10 minutes

Just temp float for 15 mins. Don’t know why some people acclimate them like fish?

 

[Charlie’s Frags]

Just temp float for 15 mins. Don’t know why some people acclimate them like fish?

Bc ppl think a dKh swing will kill it