LPS Rehab - do you dip?

[Kristy]

Thanks Karin, John, and Lorraine for the input.

Just reporting in my findings so far... The red blasto coral that is probably too far gone still looks terrible. I gave it a Lugol's dip, used the 8 drops / liter that Bill recommended in his thread. I also moved it to the big tank for the benefit of the UV sterilizer. I will dip a few more times and see if there is any rebounding, but it looks like a goner.

The other big fat healthy gorgeous LPS (frogspawn) that has a spot of ??? where something awful had fallen on it and caused immediate damage and recession is too big and attached to a bottom base rock in my reef so it cannot be removed for a dip. So I tried something crazy and turned off my pumps and dropped about three drops of Lugol's in the water just above the colony. The iodine fell right on the coral full strength, which didn't seem ideal, so I swirled the water with my hand to dillute it a bit. Then I left the pumps off for about five minutes before I turned them back on. Today there looks to be less tissue damage and I cannot see as much skeleton as I could yesterday, so maybe better extension. I'll keep you posted.

[Mr Cob]

When LPS decline in our tanks I move them to areas of low flow and low light to help them recover quickly without the intensity of flow and light penetrating at the flesh.

I also like ReVive Coral Cleaner to help them recover, also great to use on freshly fragged corals that did not get clean cuts.

I do not like CoralRX for treating declining specimens. I feel it's too harsh and better used as a dip against pests...perhaps it's all in my head though because of the intense smell.

[allan]

You guys are high tech. I've had my problems with acans, brains, and my one and only scoly. Each of them benefitted with a little extra midnight feeding and a repositioning.

queer as it sounds... I'm having a terrible time keeping the acan/scoly/brains in my tank, but they flourish in Milly's tank. Ordinarily this wouldn't be so weird, but we share the same sump. I run one 400W MH, she runs two 250 MH. I imagine that at no time would the coral be under both of them, just one at a time. It isn't the care she devotes to it either... she doesn't. I do all the work for that tank. Typical kid.

[Mr Cob]

they probably don't like so much light that you have in yours and maybe you have more flow.

I have a similar scenario...the shallow 85g tank with 250w mh and heavy flow bleaches out the lps and the 220g DEEP tank with 250w mh and low flow LPS flourish...both tanks plumbed together.

[CoryDude]

Betadine is a cheap alterntive to Lugol's. I've used it on a few lps before with no long term effects. Pretty much everything in my tank (lps and sps) have all been dipped in a saltwater/lugols mixture before they enter the tank.

[Europhyllia]

so what store sells that revive stuff? anybody local?

[Mr Cob]

not sure if any of the sponsors do, I have picked it up online and locally at TT, I'd call first though.

[Europhyllia]

Yes sure TT would have it since I was just there today for something else only TT had ... lol