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I got some coral and did a peroxide dip. I mixed a very small amount of peroxide with tank water (like 1:6) for the dip.

 

The xenia was pulsing during the dip, but now it looks like it's falling apart. 

 

It's been like a year since I've kept corals, and I used to do use kinds of dips and never had this issue. 

 

Did I mess the dip up? Are soft corals less tolerant to dips? 

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45 minutes ago, Clown79 said:

Peroxide dips don't work for all corals.

 

Most of us dip our corals but not usually in peroxide

I was mostly dipping to get rid of hair algae. There was a lot. 

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27 minutes ago, Broseff said:

I was mostly dipping to get rid of hair algae. There was a lot. 

Why not just manually remove it, get more cuc, or do peroxide spot treatment

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Xenias and most corals hate peroxide, you may have killed the frag.

The only thing I've found you can dip in peroxide are zoas. Everything else use a proper coral dip, like Revive or CoralRx, these will not kill algae but will make pests drop off the coral.

 

You'll want to change your frag source to one that has less algae or you can remove as much as possible and let your clean up crew deal with the rest.

 

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1 hour ago, Clown79 said:

Why not just manually remove it, get more cuc, or do peroxide spot treatment

It was EVERYWHERE on the plug and my cuc won't touch the stuff. Hard to spot treat when it's so inner mixed with the coral. 

56 minutes ago, DevilDuck said:

Xenias and most corals hate peroxide, you may have killed the frag.

The only thing I've found you can dip in peroxide are zoas. Everything else use a proper coral dip, like Revive or CoralRx, these will not kill algae but will make pests drop off the coral.

 

You'll want to change your frag source to one that has less algae or you can remove as much as possible and let your clean up crew deal with the rest.

 

I don't have better options for coral. All the lfs near me have gross looking setups. 

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1 hour ago, Broseff said:

It was EVERYWHERE on the plug and my cuc won't touch the stuff. Hard to spot treat when it's so inner mixed with the coral. 

I don't have better options for coral. All the lfs near me have gross looking setups. 

I feel your pain. The first few frags I ever bought had were covered with a forest of hair algae. Took an hour to tweeze out all I could.  

 

If I had known better back then I would have just popped the frags off the plug. I ended up dipping the zoas in 50/50 peroxide because the algae was between every polyp. Some how my hermits and snails cleared the rest. Xenia is the only exception once it takes off will out grow the hair algae.  

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