Coral dip

[ArtC]

CMAS had three good speakers at Sunday's meeting, but the best reduction to sound byte was during Frank Burr's talk on coral quarantine procedures and dips. He did a comparison of the effectiveness of various commercial dips against different types of parasites, and the results compressed to:

 

"If you don't do anything else, dip your corals in Tropic Marin Pro-Coral Cure before putting them in your tank."

 

It was convincing enough that a CMAS group buy already has half as many participants as were at the meeting.

 

Before you ask me exactly which parasites it was effective against (all but one that were tested), I don't take notes in these meetings. The CMAS Secretary usually does, but that much typing takes time!

 

CMAS group by is coming from That Fish Place, $16 vs. up to $30 elsewhere.

 

http://www.thatpetplace.com/pet/product/pr...cGroupKey=11656

 

CMAS thread:

 

http://www.cmas-md.org/forums/showthread.php?t=56522

 

PS: I'm no doing the group buy for WAMAS, but I don't get any special pricing on this stuff. Just saving the shipping costs.

[Lee Stearns]

Sounds like something we should look into- There is a lot of frag and coral trading going on in this club and I for one have not done any dipping of corals prior to putting in my tank. This is being done more out of ignorance of the issues associated with coral diseases and parasites than anything else.

Two points here:

1) The club should look into getting a breif set up at one of the meetings for education on this subject. Even our vendors might be of help and interested.

2) And we ought to recommend some kind of minimal dipping proceedures for things like red bugs, monti eating nudis, and zoa eating parasites. All of which I know have, and or do exist in some WAMAS members tanks.

 

I think this is a rather first order of business that should be addressed by WAMAS. We have a lot of forums and stickies but maybe a stickie thread on the recommended dipping once developed, and attached to meeting notices where trading is to take place.

 

Just thoughts,

[ReeferMan]

ISNT LUGOLS THE SAME THING?

[extreme_tooth_decay]

I prefer avocado and crab dips.

[SkiCurtis]

I was there for the cmas speakers and it did open my eyes up.I want a quarantine tank now.for now on I will dip every coral I get from wherever and when i have some extra cash I going to get a nano for a coral quarantine tank. I have done a couple of dips on some frags and it looks like a couple of Amphipod's have come off of my zoos.Sandy(smarsh97)gave me a good link for the zoo pests see link below.

Curtis

 

http://zoaid.com/index.php?module=Gallery2&g2_itemId=384

 

I prefer avocado and crab dips.

[ArtC]

ISNT LUGOLS THE SAME THING?

 

Nope. Lugol's is just iodine. Effective against fewer parasites.

 

Sorry, CMAS doesn't have the seminar notes posted yet. I'll link when they do.

[ArtC]

CMAS has posted the notes from Frank Burr's talk about quarantine systems and coral dips.

 

http://www.cmas-md.org/forums/showthread.p...6285#post286285

 

CMAS had three good speakers at Sunday's meeting, but the best reduction to sound byte was during Frank Burr's talk on coral quarantine procedures and dips. He did a comparison of the effectiveness of various commercial dips against different types of parasites, and the results compressed to:

 

"If you don't do anything else, dip your corals in Tropic Marin Pro-Coral Cure before putting them in your tank."

 

It was convincing enough that a CMAS group buy already has half as many participants as were at the meeting.

 

Before you ask me exactly which parasites it was effective against (all but one that were tested), I don't take notes in these meetings. The CMAS Secretary usually does, but that much typing takes time!

 

CMAS group by is coming from That Fish Place, $16 vs. up to $30 elsewhere.

 

http://www.thatpetplace.com/pet/product/pr...cGroupKey=11656

 

CMAS thread:

 

http://www.cmas-md.org/forums/showthread.php?t=56522

 

PS: I'm no doing the group buy for WAMAS, but I don't get any special pricing on this stuff. Just saving the shipping costs.

[flowerseller]

If you're still doing the group order for the dip,

 

I'll take 2 bottles = $32.00

[ArtC]

If you're still doing the group order for the dip,

 

I'll take 2 bottles = $32.00

 

Sorry, the order already went in - needed it in time for the last CMAS meeting of the season (Sunday's picnic.) But I didn't work any special deal on this buy; just found the best price and coordinated to keep a fleet of UPS trucks in their garages...

 

As our speaker Frank Burr said, it isn't easy to find. But I did a search and tied for best price was That Pet Place at 15.99. Elsewhere the prices ran to the high 20s.

 

http://www.thatpetplace.com/pet/prod...GroupKey=11656

 

Plus, $9 shipping.

 

They are backordered at the moment (something to do with CMAS buying 24 bottles...)