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Today I bought my first "big boy" coral. A torch. The other corals I had were tiny frags.
So the guys at the shop suggested I dip before putting it in my main tank.....and after some quick mental math of how much money, blood, sweat and tears I have poured into this tank, I realized I do not need nor do I want worms/etc eating my clam and corals.
So I got a white 5 gal bucket from home depot....put in what I thought to be 1 gallon of water (probably a bit over)....then dropped like 30 drops of that one brand name of coral dip....starts with an "L"....the name is slipping me right now and I'm upstairs and too lazy to go down stairs and look at the name on the bottle. Ludens? No that's cough drops....but something like that.
Anyways so I let the coral sit in the bucket for about 15 minutes....during which I "swished" the water around to make sure it was properly mixed.
Then I grabbed hold of the coral and "swished it" around a few times.....then put it directly in my main tank.
I was reading online later on that I should have had a 2nd bucket....with fresh saltwater to rinse off the dip.
Because I did not do that.....did I harm my tank or other corals or fish? I just went straight from dip bucket to tank.
I also read that I should have done a few other dips to kill a few other pests....because one dip doesn't kill everything? Is that correct?
What do you guys do?
Also.....I'm short on space where I live. I was debating on setting up a QT tank....however is a 3 gallon pico tank big enough to hold most fish that are generally approved for nano tanks?
thanks
Today I bought my first "big boy" coral. A torch. The other corals I had were tiny frags.
So the guys at the shop suggested I dip before putting it in my main tank.....and after some quick mental math of how much money, blood, sweat and tears I have poured into this tank, I realized I do not need nor do I want worms/etc eating my clam and corals.
So I got a white 5 gal bucket from home depot....put in what I thought to be 1 gallon of water (probably a bit over)....then dropped like 30 drops of that one brand name of coral dip....starts with an "L"....the name is slipping me right now and I'm upstairs and too lazy to go down stairs and look at the name on the bottle. Ludens? No that's cough drops....but something like that.
Anyways so I let the coral sit in the bucket for about 15 minutes....during which I "swished" the water around to make sure it was properly mixed.
Then I grabbed hold of the coral and "swished it" around a few times.....then put it directly in my main tank.
I was reading online later on that I should have had a 2nd bucket....with fresh saltwater to rinse off the dip.
Because I did not do that.....did I harm my tank or other corals or fish? I just went straight from dip bucket to tank.
I also read that I should have done a few other dips to kill a few other pests....because one dip doesn't kill everything? Is that correct?
What do you guys do?
Also.....I'm short on space where I live. I was debating on setting up a QT tank....however is a 3 gallon pico tank big enough to hold most fish that are generally approved for nano tanks?
thanks