I've got to say I'm always up for new ideas and experimentation and want to first of all say thanks to the ones which have tested there corals and driven it to what it is today. For this to ever become a proven method, it really needs to be documented on what worked, what did not work, and so forth.
I'd have to agree with TMZ that this thread has gone every which way with no real sense of direction and really think an adoption could be made if a dosage could be determined and it is documented whether or not a particular coral reacts as expected. That being said, I've created a shared Google doc which I think would help the community if we could track everything.
The criteria to fill in is as follows:
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Coral - What coral did you dip?
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Bayer Dip - Which Bayer dip was used?
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Concentration - How much saltwater and how much Bayer?
(Please keep both in metric as it makes the most sense. Let's go with how much Bayer you would use for 1 Liter)
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Dip Time - How long did you dip?
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Results - Good/Bad (Basically the coral responded in acceptable time frame and did not die)
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Notes - At the concentration used, what die off did you observe? Did the coral lose coloration or barely pull through? Anything specific which is for the better for the community?
Google Doc:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Ag8LSYGLKscIdER3eE9nN0VLeE9ISE1Ma2M4b0lNM0E
Thanks in advance if you take the time to fill out what you've had sucess with . From what I've seen this is the good/bad but dosages are unclear so if you have done treatment, please provide your results in the spreadsheet so we can better determine a good regimen!
***Copied directly from thread, sorry for lack of organization:
Good:
SPS, aussie scolys, acan bowerbanki, lords, mille, birdsnests, acros, several species of acropora, montipora, favias, zoas, sinulara, and gonipora, zoas, orange plate, shrooms and acans, frogspawn, hammer, duncan, acan, chalices, 1 Pulsing Xenia, 1 Acro, 1 Bird's Nest, 1 Blasto1 Sympodium, 20 Zoa/Paly
Bad:
A. hyacinthus (Picky acro)
