questions about pests/dipping/quarantining

[blacknife]

On my extended drive home today I stopped by one of the lfs's and bought a few bargain priced lps and zoo's.
got home.. acclimated a bit, took the first one out of the bag and as i was putting it into the water saw lots of pests in the bag, put it back in the bag right away and they are all floating in the bags still. there were some better hitchhikers<snails and a hermit> but lots of yellowish flatworm looking things.

Stores are closed now, and i don't have anything to dip corals in yet.

I pulled the bags out of the dt and put them in my spare project tank, 12g cube with some lr and nothing else in it.

questions are:

should the corals be ok in the bag.. or even in the bag with the bag open but clipped to the tank wall till i get off work tomorrow?

or just drop them in the tank and treat that whole qt tank if necessary?

iodine dip good enough or do one of the other products work better?

[cuz]

worst case senario a fresh water dip can work wonders for most pests

[blacknife]

thats what i did, figured the frags are better off in the now qt tank than floating in the bag

hundreds of little yellow flatfish worms dead.. and a few other critters.

some of the tougher ones made it but oh well ill treat it as a qt till I'm sure there are none left.

[BlueWorldAquatic]

Iodine will suffice, just don't put in too mcuh.

Ken

[fishytime]

nothing.....I mean nothing hits my tank without being dipped........I dont care where it comes from....for the twenty bucks and 20 seconds it takes I find its worth it.....a good iodine based dip will work for most pests...."coral rx" is slightly more aggressive and will kill almost everything(save redbugs)....seachem either has already, or will have, a new coral dip that is said to also kill red bugs...do follow the instructions to the letter with the last two products.....one mistake with either amounts or dip time could prove to be

[MitchM]

Originally Posted by fishytime

nothing.....I mean nothing hits my tank without being dipped........

Doug,

What do you with new live rock?

Thanks,
Mitch