Magnesium Chloride bath

[MikeS]

Hi all....

I know many use a magnesium chloride bath to drive crabs and shrimps out of live rock...would a magnesium sulfate (epsom salt) bath have the same effect?

MikeS

 

[wrightme43]

Would it work on Paris Hilton?
I dont know Mike. I didnt even know people magnesium chloride baths on live rock.

 

[Illusion]

I havent heard of that either... I know people use Seltzer water / Salt water dips to remove unwanted critters..

Method... Mix Seltzer water at salt to Proper Sg... Dip rock for a few seconds then place in clean saltwater... The fizz should drive out all the creatures Wanted and Unwanted..

James

 

[NaH2O]

That didn't work so well for me when I needed to get rid of a rogue crab one wintery day in Chicago. I poured fresh water, then seltzer water directly on the crab....fizzy galore, and still the she-beast wouldn't budge. Ended up coaxing her out manually with a metal skewer. I hadn't heard about the magnesium chloride bath....I would have tried that. In short....I don't know about the Epsom salts?

 

[MikeS]

same thing...magnesium cholride bath at NSW gravity and temp...the critters come scooting out....wonder if epsom salt would do the same...

Mike

 

[Boomer]

Try some calcium hydroxide. That should piss them off to come up with the reallllly high pH.

The sulfate should work just as good as the chloride, as both are used to relax the muscles in marine studies

 

[MikeS]

Thanks Boomer....

On the calcium hydoxide...plain 'ol pickling lime would work? What concentration would you want to mix it to?

MikeS

 

[Boomer]

Pickling should work. I don't know what concentration, never tried it If you had a needle syringe I would put in full strength and give him a shot. I would not want to get reallllllly close, or five him to big a shot, as the high OH- would burn his gills. Think this, you know what the solution does to a Aiptasia when you inject it into them, they just melt away. So, we don't want that unless you are trying to kill him.