10 Coral Dipping Steps to Keep Pests OUT of Your Reef Tank! EP: 44b

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Kick coral pests to the curb BEFORE they enter your aquarium! Keeping unwanted pests and algae out of our beloved reef tanks is paramount to success and Matthew is here to walk us through dipping our coral. An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure! .
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00:00 - Open
00:36 - Drip & Temperature Acclimation
00:52 - Setup Work Station
01:39 - Remove Frag Plugs
02:34 - Inspect & Remove Pests
03:53 - Agitate Water
04:35 - Rinse Coral
04:54 - Inspect & Remove Pests
05:02 - Attach New Frag Plugs
06:53 - Quarantine Corals
07:18 - Rinse Gear

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@DGGuaglianone Жыл бұрын

I watch this every time right before I add a new coral to my aquarium.

@ulgenrabishlave4645 2 жыл бұрын

Buying my first coral ever tomorrow, can't wait to see them in my tank!

@ulgenrabishlave4645 2 жыл бұрын

Got myself a toadstool and a classic Rasta zoas they're doing great

@maartenrekers7716 Жыл бұрын

How are they doing now? And any new additions or fish?

@Merknilash Жыл бұрын

Matthew is probably the single best marine aquarium content creator in the game.

@BulkReefSupply Жыл бұрын

We love Matthew’s content too!

@RobBoryckiGolf 2 жыл бұрын

Every time I have a bad day. I find coral buying is therapy!

@keithstie 11 ай бұрын

Matthew, you won me over with your comments about needing new corrals? Much respect! ❤

@RogueAquariums 2 жыл бұрын

A lot of people don’t realize the importance of dipping Corals because they fail to realize how many pests that have the potential to come in on a frag plug or disc then you introduce that frag into your main display which could potentially be disastrous. Nice tutorial Matthew. 😊

@fishpony1211 2 жыл бұрын

I like your dipping process! If everyone followed this process, there would be way less coral deaths in the hobby

@Cholita.1979 Жыл бұрын

He’s so much fun to watch

@fantasyskeep 2 жыл бұрын

I keep my plugs, soak them in bleach for a day when I have a collection. Then I rinse them thoroughly and dry them out completely. One day they will come in handy for me ;)

@jonasbergkvist1464 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for a good video!

@kylepagel9360 2 жыл бұрын

Nailed that intro! Lol... Love these videos

@falcolf Жыл бұрын

I don't fully understand why we should remove the original frag plug if we're coral dipping them anyway. 😅 Aren't we unnecessarily stressing the coral by doing that?

@ImThatGuy24 2 жыл бұрын

Nice

@samreefer 2 жыл бұрын

Hi i like it You are active and perfect show man Thanks

@RustyShacklefardd 2 жыл бұрын

Perfect timing! I just got a shipment from WWC

@19801emmanuel 2 жыл бұрын

🤦🏻‍♂️

@RustyShacklefardd 2 жыл бұрын

@visco_ties3875 2 жыл бұрын

I just temp acclimate then dip corals and into the tank they go. I haven't had any issues

@fishstix1988 2 жыл бұрын

For LPS, can you skip gluing to a frag plug and glue directly onto the rock work instead, or is there a benefit with glueing to a plug? I think I remember Ryan saying they can be an eye sore and you can glue the coral using glue and coral gum to the rock work directly...

@sork.5988 2 жыл бұрын

I would like to use live rock but without the pests ( bristle worms etc) could I dip liverock with coraldip without killing the good bacteria and start my tank with it?

@aigomorla 10 ай бұрын

OMG a micro bristle star a hitch hiker? thats like winning the lottery.

@justasimpleengineer96 Жыл бұрын

Why do you need to remove the old plug just to glue it to a new plug? Why not just leave it?

@nesrinahmed3461 Жыл бұрын

I’m bought a red & green war coral from my Local fish Store, but I need to be careful about pests cuz I see lots of bubble algae, aiptasia in their tanks 😅 So here I am watching this video as I’m dipping, cleaning, searching for pests on the coral 😂

@angelfernandez3109 8 ай бұрын

This dude reminds me of Quinten Trentino

@michaelross5674 2 жыл бұрын

Is there a way to get zoa's off a frag plug or no??? I dipped them they opened back up over night .... So should I leave them alone???

@BulkReefSupply 2 жыл бұрын

While you might be able to get a zoa off a plug using a sharp razor blade, they can be put into the encrusting category. In most cases, we just try to remove as much of the plug as we can, dip the coral, and call it good 😁

@Boogerdick69 2 жыл бұрын

Quarantine tank, I’ve never ever missed a dip. One of my tanks got red flat worms, how? I’m guessing eggs or something

@BulkReefSupply 2 жыл бұрын

Unfortunately pests can get through even some of the most stringent dipping methods because dips won't kill eggs and sometimes the pests are hiding in nooks and crannies that we just don't see or can't get to. Still a super valuable step of the process and shouldn't be skipped.

@LordBonesaw Жыл бұрын

I use dettol it’s only £1 and is exactly the same as all the expensive stuff

@apss5736 2 жыл бұрын

Heh I'd just set up a nano or an ecosphere for them lol

@Myst8891 2 жыл бұрын

Haha😂…yes, yes they do.

@mattb2906 2 жыл бұрын

Curious why this is even necessary since unlike full blown quarantine for a fish, this seems far simpler. Aren’t vendors and fish stores as motivated, if not more motivated than us to prevent their entire system from being invaded with pests and wiping out their system? Shouldn’t they already be doing this themselves? Back when I had a reef tank 14 years ago, I’d just pop corals in and perhaps I was just lucky, but never ran into an issue. In your experience, are vendors and LFS really that poor at maintaining their systems that this is required?

@mattb2906 2 жыл бұрын

And why do you have to remove the old plug if you already scrubbed it and dipped the coral to remove hitchhikers? What’s so bad about the plug or rock the coral came on?

@JHenrySmith2 2 жыл бұрын

@@mattb2906 You can't sell new frag plugs if you're not telling people they need to replace them

@ericadams5966 2 жыл бұрын

Is there a reason to drip acclimate? Corals don’t respirate like a fish.

@BulkReefSupply 2 жыл бұрын

That's true, but they're still sensitive to water parameter changes. Maybe even more-so than most saltwater fish.

@DopamineKata 2 жыл бұрын

"Add the correct amount to the fist bucket" *shows adding it to the second bucket*

@JoesCoralReef Жыл бұрын

I believe they are just dipping buckets to wash off any residual dip.

@ericnesmith1347 2 жыл бұрын

I just watched pulp fiction. This guy looks a lot like Quentin Tarantino.

@ArulArul-ed6cu 2 жыл бұрын

Why no have traslet this video 😔

@Starganderfish 2 жыл бұрын

So you temperature acclimate, drip acclimate and then wash and scrub them, soak them in dip for 20-30 minutes, rinse, glue, inspect, rinse... At that point it's been a minimum of 30 minutes and potentially up to an hour since you started the dipping process with your "acclimated" corals. Pretty sure any temperature acclimation is long gone by then and most likely any drip acclimation benefits as well. Really see no value in acclimating the corals before doing all the rest of it. Just get straight into the cleaning and dipping.