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Trevor40 
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Posted: October 11 2011 at 2:58pm |
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Which coral dip are you using and why? I've heard these 2 are the best but I need your help deciding which to buy for all kinds of corals. I don't have any bugs in my tanks that I know of. I will be transferring all my corals to my bigger tank and want to dip before the transfer.
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Posted: October 11 2011 at 4:06pm |
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I user Revive and have always been really happy with it.
I've never used RX.
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Posted: October 11 2011 at 9:14pm |
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I use CoralRx on all new SPS, and LPS. I just got a bottle of revive, cuz I was reading that zoas respond better to it, yet others say they are the same thing, so I've been using it to dip zoas and freshly cut frags.
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Posted: October 11 2011 at 9:47pm |
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Do the bottles have the same ingredients? Why do people say they are the same?
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Posted: October 11 2011 at 10:19pm |
You have caught me in the laziness I posses! 
I just got the bottle of Revive and was going strictly off what I read. Let me grab the bottles and see what I can find out about ingredients.
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Posted: October 11 2011 at 10:32pm |
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OK, got the bottles in front of me.
CoralRx has a very medicinal smell, which led me to believe that it a harsher dip, and that maybe the Revive was a bit gentler. I posed the question "What is the best dip for zoa/palys?" in R2R's zoa forum, cuz I noticed newly acquired/dipped zoa frags or colonies took longer to open than I was used too. Revive smells like lemons, so maybe it's more gentle, by using natural elements?
Well for ingredients on CoralRx it says "Distilled water, propietary blend of natural extracts. Contains no iodine". Very secretive?
Revive simply says "Oleum abietis 0.5%; Citrus limon 0.5%"
So going off smell alone, not the same. Going off ingredients, maybe have some of the same stuff?
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Posted: October 12 2011 at 1:32am |
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I use revive, and it smells good too
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Posted: October 12 2011 at 8:35am |
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I'm leaning more toward Revive based on what you guys have told me. It sounds more gentle on the corals and just as lethal to the bugs and friends.
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Posted: October 12 2011 at 9:03pm |
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Ordered Revive tonight, thanks for the help deciding!
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Posted: October 13 2011 at 6:47pm |
We carry both in the store. This is a exactly what I will be talking about on Sat at noon at the store.
Trevor, Remind me to send you a pm if you cant make it saturday
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