Can sps tissue carry tomonts?
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ThRoewer
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^^ This.
On live tissue the coral may actually eat it - it's just another plankton organism for it after all.
The most likely places to find tomonts would be the base rock (or frag plug) or dead skeleton near the base.
Dead tips or branch areas can't be excluded but are less likely.
LobsterOfJustice
Recovering Detritophobe
Related question - will your typical round of coral pest dips (CoralRx, Revive, and/or Bayer) kill any fish parasites and eliminate the need for a coral QT?
ThRoewer
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Short answer to that is "No"
It will definitely not affect any encysted stages, which are of most concern.
Free stages and eggs may or may not be affected, depending on the dip.
But since the corals usually start to slime like crazy and you transfer them kind of "dry", the likelihood of free stages hitching a ride is rather low. This may eliminate parasites without a cyst stage (Brooklynella for example), but not Cryptocaryon or Amyloodinium.
Uronema as a scavenger on dead tissue and bacteria may or may not be flushed off
It will definitely not affect any encysted stages, which are of most concern.
Free stages and eggs may or may not be affected, depending on the dip.
But since the corals usually start to slime like crazy and you transfer them kind of "dry", the likelihood of free stages hitching a ride is rather low. This may eliminate parasites without a cyst stage (Brooklynella for example), but not Cryptocaryon or Amyloodinium.
Uronema as a scavenger on dead tissue and bacteria may or may not be flushed off
