frag dipping containers @ Smart and Final $4.49

went to Smart and Final to find a colander for dipping frags today. These are on sale for $4.49 1 gallon size comes with the colander bowl and lid.

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Daiso Japan stores are another great source for reefing tools/containers.

I have never been in that store. I guess I now have a reason.

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Sweet! Thanks for sharing — just make sure your significant other don’t use them for tossing salad later!
Btw: what do you use for dipping corals? I don’t typically dip but since my main tank is clean and stable, I’m afraid to put anything new without dipping / quarantining.

We have a strict policy of no palytoxin in the salad dressing LOL. All of my reefing gear stays in the garage and never comingles with kitchen ware.

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I first acclimate in 50/50 tank water/lfs water(or whatever they came in) in a 2.5g bucket at this point I use a turkey baster to blow out any detritus...you will be amazed at how much crap come out of the coral. Then into bowl #1 1 gallon of tank water with 4 cap fulls of coral rx for 10 min. and again with the baster. Next into a bowl of straight tank water for the first rinse for 10 minutes and again with the baster. Then the final rinse in bowl 3 of straight tank water. usually by the 3rd bowl nothing else is coming off. Then its into the frag tank for 3 month QT and grow out. During the QT and grow out I am abke to catch any aips or other pests in order to deal with them there before dropping into the display. It is much easier to deal with additional dips and such that way. Oh and I will just do a significant drop 15-30 frags every 3 months. I ran all over town over labor day weekend and got these. And true to form already found 1 aiptasia just tonight. I will hit him this weekend with F aiptaisia.

After buying a load of corals 6 months ago that caused a load of strife and 6 months of devastation in my DT I will be always following this protocol. I wound up infecting my tang with ich and catching zoa spiders in 1 dirty batch of coral that I dipped but didn't QT. Zoa spiders can hang out inside the closed polyps and ich and other fish parasites can live on the surfaces of corals and frag plugs in its tromont stage. This is actually the longest lived stage of the parasite. Had I done a proper QT I likely would have never had the problem. The only way to erradicate the ich is to fallow the display of fish for 76 days. I went 90 days for good measure. Now I run a frag qt for 90 days with only corals shrimp crabs and snails.

All fish are FW dipped then formalin dipped then methaline blue dipped before they get medicated qt using copper and tank transfer before going into the display now. If they dont make it through QT so be it my other fish will be safer because of it.

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I applaud your patience and perseverance! My SPS-dominant tank is so matured now that I don’t want to take risks by adding more corals. I should be doing the same — thanks for sharing.

My OCD is a mother f'r. and my competitive nature makes me fight through things even when I should probably just give up and start over LOL.

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