Is it true...?

[daayda3]

That you have to wash a new coral in FW, then in bleach, then let it sit in the sun to dry before putting it in the tank?
I read that somewhere... I thought it was kinda wierd

[SHK_ATK]

no No and NO!!!! The most you can do to new coral before putting it in a tank is dipped in a mild iodine based solution as a biosecurity measure to help insure that pathogens are not added to your tank. dont do it to Nems or Clams as they will die

[daayda3]

Wow!
Its good that I found this out!

I have crummy book on reefkeeping, and it gives a whole buch of bad info. like this:(
(such as, puring the water from the bag, into the tank... and getting all the fish you want after 24 hours of setting it up) :mad:

[SHK_ATK]

I had a book that was old and suggested all kinds of things to do, but it had written in little exerps the newer method of doing things. Your book is prob an old book as well.

[Weezer]

Sounds like a very old book, whats the copy right. just wondering,,30 years ago books said that....:)

[daayda3]

The date is 1991, and read this:

"first of all, the coral should be placed in a nonmetallic bucket with freshwater to compleatly cover the coral for at least 72 hours in a warm area
if the water that the coral was in stays clear, you can put it in your tank
if it is couldy, or has a odor, remove the coral, rinse and place the coral in a bucket using 8 ounces of household bleach for every gallon of water
the coral should soack in this for 72 hours
afterward, rise the coral, and let it set in freshwater for 24 hours
continue to change water untill there is no more bleach smell
then place in the sn to dry... when it is dry, smell it (:p) if there is any odor, repeat with freswater, if no odor, you can add it to the tank"

- the new SW aquarium handbook

:huh:

[SHK_ATK]

thats just plain crazy, kinda reminds me of the thread about using BS (yep cow S..t) to cycle a tank.

[OldManOfTheSea]

The date is 1991, and read this:

"first of all, the coral should be placed in a nonmetallic bucket with freshwater to compleatly cover the coral for at least 72 hours in a warm area
if the water that the coral was in stays clear, you can put it in your tank
if it is couldy, or has a odor, remove the coral, rinse and place the coral in a bucket using 8 ounces of household bleach for every gallon of water
the coral should soack in this for 72 hours
afterward, rise the coral, and let it set in freshwater for 24 hours
continue to change water untill there is no more bleach smell
then place in the sn to dry... when it is dry, smell it (:p) if there is any odor, repeat with freswater, if no odor, you can add it to the tank"

- the new SW aquarium handbook

:huh:


Dear me, who in the world wrote that!!!! :look:

You have to realize that it not take much for one to write a dumb book as that one seems to sound like for the most part of it, those who write books never kept any aquarium themselves, so how on earth do their know how on what to do and all. As well, there are books on sharks, eels and rays and the people writing these not done any aquarium as well.

It was like when one person was telling me of that video where they released in the sharks aquarium a large octopus and the sharks were sized at from 4-5' or so and before I told the person who were telling me that video, I told him to let me figure if I can tell you what happened, that the octopus was killing the sharks.

So in all, it not really take much of anything for one to write a book, the problem at most as the saying goes, these people have no clue in what to do themselves. Of course now, there are some great books out there, you just need to find them :rolleyes:

Buddy

[daayda3]

I love "The reef aquarium" 1 and 2:D lol
i get them from the library, cause they are like... what? 89.99 a book? something like that...

[OldManOfTheSea]

There is no way that anyone could knock the reef aquarium volume set :dance2:

[Star_Rider]

I wonder if that exerpt was in reference to dead coral.

kind of like adding uncured live rock to an existing aquarium...or base rock...but not to something that's live.

maybe...if given the benefit of the doubt..you could use this method for coral that's not LIVE:eek:

[SigPiPup]

I agree. I believe that the exerpt is in reference to dead coral skeletons that are used as decorations. I have a book that outlines that exact course of action in reference to the dead coral skeletons.

[daayda3]

Its not, the title is "Live coral"

[5xevy]

Hahahaha, daayda- it may be easier if you just throw the coral in the washing maching. You can let it hang out in the soak cycle and watching it spin can really help branching corals branch.

If you put in the drier afterwards, make sure to throw in those drier sheets. Then you shouldn't smell the bleach at all and your coral should have a nice candle-like melting look.

;)

[rockethippo]

Wow... What idiots that wrote the book.