Me and a friend of mine had to go to the quad citys airport to pick up his brother. His brothers flight got delayed so we went to aquatic environments to kill time. And wow that is one sweet LFS  I was very impressed! Anyway I spoted this colony it is half bleached and half browned out but I got a good deal and it deffinetly has some potential. Greenonion I belieave his real name is joe told me it had a green base and pink tips when it came in and he thought it was strawberry shortcake and I could still see some of the base color and the pink tips. I gave it a few dips when I got home and put it in the frag tank for observation and to get it colored up. There were absolutely no bugs in the dip. The polyps were out 5min after I put it in the tank. Here are a few pics I plan to document it's recovery in this thread.

good luck man, im be tagging along. hopefully its a diamond in the rough!

I think it will be. Thanks for hooking me up with it! And expect to see me in there from time to time now that I see why everyone says it's so nice.
-Bill

i love watching recovery progression threads!!! good luck!

Wow, I dunno, looks mostly dead, but there are a few tips still alive, might be able to save something from it. Good luck!

Posted By phishcrazee on 06/17/2010 08:53 AM
Wow, I dunno, looks mostly dead, but there are a few tips still alive, might be able to save something from it. Good luck!

Not dead at all just bleached. The color has just gone out of it it is still verry much alive and has polyp extention everywhere.

Looks pretty big. Nice find if it colors up for you

So far all is good. Great polyp extention over the whole colony and color has improved ever so slightly. I'm going to leave it in the frag tank for six weeks diping it every week for the first 4 ( not that it needs it I haven't seen any bugs) then I'll move it to the display.

I think I saw a red bug today when I was examining the colony. I did another dip with coral rx today but it dose not work for red bugs. I'm going to pick up some lugol's soultion this weekend.

I don't think CoralRX does anything for acro eating redbugs. Don't you need Interceptor? And please don't take that as an anti-CoralRX statement...I love the stuff. I dip all of my new corals in it....but I don't think that redbugs are one of the things that it's effective at treating.

--AJ

Dude if you read my last post I already said it dose nothing for red bugs lol. That's why i'm going to get some lugol's tell I can get my hands on some intercepter if needed.

Hey I don't think CoralRX does anything for red bugs..just thought I would let you know

Posted By AJ on 06/23/2010 03:36 PM
I don't think CoralRX does anything for acro eating redbugs. Don't you need Interceptor? And please don't take that as an anti-CoralRX statement...I love the stuff. I dip all of my new corals in it....but I don't think that redbugs are one of the things that it's effective at treating.

--AJ

Acro eating redbugs?  you mean acro eating flatworms?


If it were me I would be hesitant to constantly dip a stressed coral.  Especially if you are going more iodine based, I'm not sure what's in some of the other products nowdays like coral rx but most dips are stressfull to a coral and can cause excess mucus production. 

a good clean tank with good flow, lower temp,  lower light levels,  and adequite feeding should be all that is needed for the coral to recover if it is going to... Also do not dose any carbon sources in the recovery tank

Posted By rc1214b on 06/23/2010 04:29 PM

Posted By AJ on 06/23/2010 03:36 PM
I don't think CoralRX does anything for acro eating redbugs. Don't you need Interceptor? And please don't take that as an anti-CoralRX statement...I love the stuff. I dip all of my new corals in it....but I don't think that redbugs are one of the things that it's effective at treating.

--AJ

Acro eating redbugs?  you mean acro eating flatworms?


If it were me I would be hesitant to constantly dip a stressed coral.  Especially if you are going more iodine based, I'm not sure what's in some of the other products nowdays like coral rx but most dips are stressfull to a coral and can cause excess mucus production. 

a good clean tank with good flow, lower temp,  lower light levels,  and adequite feeding should be all that is needed for the coral to recover if it is going to... Also do not dose any carbon sources in the recovery tank

Getting my pests all mixed up...heh  I mean redbugs...but since they are only supposed to infest acros, I'm sure that's why I got confused.

Also, CoralRX is supposed to be among the most (of not the most) gentle dips out there, yet is still very effective.  Paul Law was talking to me about this and he believes that it's much more gentle than iodine based dips.

--AJ

That's great that it's a gentle method of cleansing a coral, I've used TLF revive and it also is a gentle product but still will cause mucus production

^ this is true

From my experence there is little to no mucus when useing coral rx. It's funny I guess I worded my post a little weird because you guys keep telling me coral rx dosen't work for red bugs but that's exactly what I said. I'm not 100% sure it has bugs at this point I only breafly saw what apeared to be one. And the colony dose have good polyp extention and color is showing a slight improvement. Which wouldn't happen if it did have bugs right?

Posted By rc1214b on 06/23/2010 04:29

Acro eating redbugs?  you mean acro eating flatworms?


If it were me I would be hesitant to constantly dip a stressed coral.  Especially if you are going more iodine based, I'm not sure what's in some of the other products nowdays like coral rx but most dips are stressfull to a coral and can cause excess mucus production. 

a good clean tank with good flow, lower temp,  lower light levels,  and adequite feeding should be all that is needed for the coral to recover if it is going to... Also do not dose any carbon sources in the recovery tank.

True but if there are bugs preasent they aren't going to leave just because you want them to.  Why no carbon source?

i use INTERCEPTOR and FLATWORM X and LUGOLS all together when i get any new corals. It has worked every time...Also if u saw one theres probably more. But it could have just been polyp retraction. Cant wait to see it pretty.

Posted By offroadodge on 06/23/2010 08:48 PM
i use INTERCEPTOR and FLATWORM X and LUGOLS all together when i get any new corals. It has worked every time...Also if u saw one theres probably more. But it could have just been polyp retraction. Cant wait to see it pretty.

Do you mix everything in the same solution?