New corals often arrive with unwanted hidden in their infractures. These various small creatures are often invisible to the naked eye and, once introduced, can spread to other corals and damage your fragile reef eco-system.

Years after years the reef used generic bath solutions such as fresh water, iodine, and even household disinfectants. It scares some unwanted but not all.

In recent years we have maintained bins in our laboratory full of infested corals and compared a wide range of trade available in the commercial and other solutions, assessing their efficiency and inocuity for corals.

The result is DIPX - unique mixture of essential oils, without any inorganic disinfectant. Our tests have shown that DIPX is absolutely safe for all types of corals and more efficient than any other solution tested.

The corals immersed in DIPX, after having been previously immersed in other solutions, have still released unwanted. Conversely, the coels having been immersed in other solutions, after they were plunged into DIPX, did nothing at all.

Why do corals bring unwanted?

In the wild a large number of species of small invertebrates linked to corals find refuge in corals and living rocks and are related collectively to "opportunistic occupants". The most common groups of these opportunistic occupants contain crustaceans, helminths (verse), echinoderms, nudibranchs and snails. In most cases the occupants take advantage of their host without damaging it, and in other cases (Trapèze crabs of the Acropora), the host and the occupier derive the two from the relationship. There are, however, several occupants who can damage their host by feeding on them. In their natural habit, these opportunistic occupants are relatively small in number due to the lack of nutrients and natural predators. When corals are transferred from one environment to another, the opportunistic occupants remain on their host, becoming unwanted passengers.

 Use :

• Pour Dipx into a clean and dry empty container.
• Use 10ml of DIPX (diluted at 1: 100 with aquarium water) to prepare 1L of bath solution.
• Immerse your new coral or living rock for maximum 15 minutes.
• The solution can be reused up to 4 baths but must be thrown within 2 hours after the preparation.