fw dip candy cane coral?

[ooja3k]

im receiving a candy cane coral tomorrow via mail... how should I acclimate it and should i give it a fw dip?

[Underwaterparadise]

IMO I would not Fresh water dip any LPS coral! FW dips are usually for parasites and/or pest. LPS have niether. Just temp acclimate it and you can always drip acclimate just to be safe.

[ooja3k]

ok, that would be the only reason that i dipped anything... i was thinking it wouldn't be smart to fw dip a lps too...

can LPS really not carry any parasites or pests??

[GoingPostal]

I wouldn't think you need to fw dip them but I have dipped candy canes in fw with lugols before with no ill effects, there's some creepy crab living inside the tissue of mine that I wanted out but it still didn't work anyways. So I can say with some comfidence that fw won't kill them. Can't say for other lps though.

[fierceseaman]

I wouldn't do a freshwater dip. Candy canes wouldn't usually carry parasites.

[gholtmeyer]

So lps don't carry any critters? how about flatworms, red bugs, etc.? If not then thats another reason to go lps only!

[Underwaterparadise]

No parasites that eat them. Any coral can have the normal photosynthetic Flat worms on them

[fierceseaman]

nothing like AEFW, monti eating nudis or redbugs or anything like that. i definitely like LPS much better because of that reason.

[tmz]

Caulastrea is generally pretty hardy. It is worth noting ,however, that they can as most lps be eaten by the protozoan that forms a brown jelly infection which mayspread to other corals. the coral canalso carry in any number of parasites on it's skeleton or the rock it's on.