How long do you quarantine zoa frags before they go in the display?
I dip everything on arrival but I'm curious how long people actually hold frags in a separate tank. I've been doing about two weeks, mostly because of zoa pox and the odd pest. Is that overkill for soft corals, or do you go longer when something comes from a trade?
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Late add, I also leave zoa frags in the frag tank until I've seen them fully open a few days in a row. If they stay shut after the dip I just wait.
Yeah waiting for a full open is a good tell. I'll stretch to three weeks for anything that came in on a trade then.
Two weeks is solid. I give trade frags a bit longer, around three, and look under the polyps for pests with a flashlight before they go anywhere near the display.
Same here. Dipping alone misses things that hide in the plug, so a frag tank is worth the space even if it's a tiny one.
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