Friend or Foe?
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Breto
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Yep, another beneficial bug
Sweet. Thanks for the help!
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Pife
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I dip Bayer at a rate of 250ml of tank water to 20ml of Bayer for ten minutes while basting the coral to knock any bugs off. I also always remove frag plugs and or whatever bases the coral come I on. I have also started tossing any coral that has ANY signs of Acropora eating flat worms. At that rate of Bayer I do get brown out and have suffered several losses of coral.
*edit I also rinse the coral in ateast 2 different buckets of tank water while basting.
*edit I also rinse the coral in ateast 2 different buckets of tank water while basting.
ebius
Yup!
DIPPING PROCEDURE:
Tools: (3) white or clear bowls, flash light, magnifying glass, timer, tweezers and turkey baster.
Formula: Bayer Advanced Complete Insect Killer Insecticide - dosage 10ml per 8 ounces of tank water. 10 - 12 minutes. Product can be purchased at Home Depot.
1. Prepare bowl #1 (Dipping solution at 10ml per 8 oz of tank water), bowl #2 (saltwater rinse), and bowl #3 (saltwater rinse).
2. Strongly recommend removing coral from frag plug as the plug may carry unwanted pests to include Aiptasia and bubble algae. Using magnifying glass, inspect coral for Acro Eating Flatworms (AEFW), AEFW eggs, and redbugs.
3. Place coral(s) in bowl #1 and start timer for 10 minutes, 12 minutes if you suspect corals are infected. DO NOT exceed 15 minutes. Sensitive smooth skin corals such as A. Enchinata DO NOT exceed 5 minutes.
4. Using turkey baster, agitate water in bowl #1, squirting water across the corals every couple minutes. Isopods, copepods, and other critters will begin to die and fall off the coral around 3 minutes. Use flashlight to view casualties on the bottom of the bowl. Use tweezers to move the coral if needed.
5. After 10 minutes, using tweezers remove corals and shake/rinse coral in bowl #2 and bowl #3. The purpose of bowls #2 and #3 are to remove residual Bayer dip from coral.
6. Coral is ready to be mounted and placed in the main display. When possible, I recommend quarantining corals for 21-30 days prior to moving to main display.
7. View the bowls to determine whether the corals were infected.
8. Discard contents of all three bowls. DO NOT pour into main display.
9. Take the responsibility of dipping all corals.
10. I added this line to complete the 10 step procedure. Enjoy.
Tools: (3) white or clear bowls, flash light, magnifying glass, timer, tweezers and turkey baster.
Formula: Bayer Advanced Complete Insect Killer Insecticide - dosage 10ml per 8 ounces of tank water. 10 - 12 minutes. Product can be purchased at Home Depot.
1. Prepare bowl #1 (Dipping solution at 10ml per 8 oz of tank water), bowl #2 (saltwater rinse), and bowl #3 (saltwater rinse).
2. Strongly recommend removing coral from frag plug as the plug may carry unwanted pests to include Aiptasia and bubble algae. Using magnifying glass, inspect coral for Acro Eating Flatworms (AEFW), AEFW eggs, and redbugs.
3. Place coral(s) in bowl #1 and start timer for 10 minutes, 12 minutes if you suspect corals are infected. DO NOT exceed 15 minutes. Sensitive smooth skin corals such as A. Enchinata DO NOT exceed 5 minutes.
4. Using turkey baster, agitate water in bowl #1, squirting water across the corals every couple minutes. Isopods, copepods, and other critters will begin to die and fall off the coral around 3 minutes. Use flashlight to view casualties on the bottom of the bowl. Use tweezers to move the coral if needed.
5. After 10 minutes, using tweezers remove corals and shake/rinse coral in bowl #2 and bowl #3. The purpose of bowls #2 and #3 are to remove residual Bayer dip from coral.
6. Coral is ready to be mounted and placed in the main display. When possible, I recommend quarantining corals for 21-30 days prior to moving to main display.
7. View the bowls to determine whether the corals were infected.
8. Discard contents of all three bowls. DO NOT pour into main display.
9. Take the responsibility of dipping all corals.
10. I added this line to complete the 10 step procedure. Enjoy.
makeshift101
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I found lots of these in my tank recently they are tiny as you can see in the pictures below the white dots next to it are sand particles.
also this my be a good place to ask how to do a bayer dip?
I'm all for dipping corals, but not beneficial live rock.
Mr D smack
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Pife
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ebius
Yup!
I cannot take the credit. That is a copy and past from somewhere here on the forums from some time ago. I just keep it handy.
Mr D smack
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