Do you Quarantine or Dip your Corals?

I've always QT'd and Freshwater Dipped my corals. In fact, at a LFS I was working at, I helped build a 3000 gallon quarantine trough just for corals.

I was wondering what all of you do.
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first time I FW dipped...and surprise. This is after 10-20 sec swish of my new lettuce coral

http://i296.photobucket.com/albums/mm169/schackmel/102_1203.jpg

not very clear but thats about 10-15 nasty little worms and one bigger something cant ID?

 

I never did with corals before, but after I had a flatworm outbreak in my last 55G tank, I now FW dip in RO/DI water with the recommended dose of Flatworm eXit. It's cheap insurance. That stuff works. I'm sure the introduction of flatworms came from a piece of coral.

I also FW dip all my new fish additions, not that I have many, but my new powder blue tang and coris wrasse got FW dipped and they thanked me for it! I think with the RO/DI water they don't mind a bit. I haven't had a fish even appear stressed during or after the dip. I acclimate them by the usual method, then the very last thing before introduction I dip 'em. Before tossing into the tank. I don't actually toss them, you know. . .

 

We us Seachem Reef Dip

 

I do both! I q/t'ed for a week before moving them to the new tank. I started by running the lights on the same schedule as the tank they came from and shifted the schedule by 1 hour until it was the same as my DT. I get flatworms or something worse in my q/t and since there's nothing in there but some macro, I nuke everything!!! If I get them in my display tank, I'll freak!!! Of course I know it wouldn't be the end of the world, but I'm jes sayin'!

 

Depends on the coral. Lugols, potassium permanganate and freshwater are all different dippings I use, some in combination, some alone. QT ia a must have, especially for established reefs.

 

I haven't done this before, but I will start to dip my new corals after reading the posts

 

Don't.

But wish now I had. :-[

 

I didn't see a "Hell Yes" option so I voted that I do both. However, like geeky, the type of dip we use depends on the coral.

If you've ever experienced monti eating nudibranchs, red bugs and acro eating flatworms, you'd be stupid not to.

 

Excellent point. Karma to you.

I don't ever use iodine based dips like Lugol's or Reef Dips (Seachem, Kent Marine, etc) on zoanthids unless I see a fungus. I strictly do FW dips on those followed by a dip of Salifert Flatworm Exit in a saltwater bath. Reef Hobbyist Magazine Volume 2 Issue 1 Mitch Carl of SECORE has found that Praziquantel (I prefer Hikari Prazi-pro) works well too. If I need to use Lugols or Reef Dips, it is very diluted for zoanthus.

For corals containing a symbiotic animal (ex. porites and christmas tree worms), I don't want to harm the worms so I only use saltwater dips on those.

Red bugs are a royal pain.....not everyone has such a cooperative vet to get interceptor so it's a good idea IMO to dip and QT all acros.

I've been succesful with Prazi-Pro with Monti nudis too.