Freshwater dip to clear flatworms

Elrodg

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I just noticed that my torch, duncan, frogspawn, and hammer were all covered in fw. I removed each and dipped them in fresh r/o water for about ten seconds each. Now they seem incredibly ****ed about this. :-/ they have all retracted and are putting off some sort of slime. Did I just kill em all? Or should they recover
 
They should recover, but the next time you have to do this, you might want to use something like Coral Rx instead. It's a lot easier on the corals. GL.
 
Dips in Bayer are what I use for LPS and flatworms, works quite well. Or a concentrated dip of flatworm exit for a short time. Neither should affect the corals adversely. Freshwater dip though is extremely hard on the corals.
 
Unless you treat your tank with something like flat worm exit you will never cure your problem. Dipping corals in FW is going to stress them.
 
If u knocked off 50 from corals then u got a thousand in the tank. Read up on using fw exit. I used it to rid my tank. Be cautious of which type of flatworm u have. Some are toxic to the tank.
 
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