Bayer Insecticide as a coral dip

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You have the power now why not make it a sticky. Let me help you

I need to save this as well. I had to look it up last time I was at Home Depot so I knew which Bayer to buy.


BTW, Your battery is almost dead not sure if you could see that..... (pun intended, lol j/k?)
 
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I've been using this for a while now by but I hate that the dip water is so milky, I can't see what pests, if any, might have come off the frag. I try pouring off some of the liquid when I'm done and then adding tap water till I can see the bottom but I'm never sure if there could be pests in the water that I pour off and don't realize it.
What do you guys do???
 
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I've been using this for a while now by but I hate that the dip water is so milky, I can't see what pests, if any, might have come off the frag. I try pouring off some of the liquid when I'm done and then adding tap water till I can see the bottom but I'm never sure if there could be pests in the water that I pour off and don't realize it.
What do you guys do???
Clear bowl or container. Wear eye protection cause that stuff also burns whatever it touches.
 
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I place the frag into the cup of 4 ounces of original water and 10 ml of the Bayer for 5 minutes at least. Then after the 5 plus minute dip, I take the frag out of the dip and place it in a cup of tank water as a rinse before it goes in the tank. So hopefully there is no or little accumulation in the display or quarantine tank.

Probably does not make any difference if the dip (cup with 4 ounces of water and 10 ml of Bayer) is from frag bag or from tank. This is just the way I have always done it. I do the rinse in "tank" water because I definitely do not want to use the original frag bag water because it may have free floating pests in it.

Because of your question and my concern for any confusion, I edited the original post to include the above info.

I think he meant acclimation, not accumulation.
 

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I think he meant acclimation, not accumulation.
No, I meant accumulation. You want to make sure the frag is rinsed of the Bayer dip before it goes in the tank. You don't want to pollute your tank with Bayer residue from the dipping process However, as you point out, the process also allows for acclimation as well even if that was not the intent but merely a nice byproduct
 

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Yeah Make Sure you let it rinse clean in 2 different tank water cups and swirl around to make sure you dillute it off the frag. I only put mine through 1 rinse before I put the frag in my tank my first time and I shocked all my hermit crabs. They didn't move for a week but then slowly came back with no deaths.
 

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For dipping yes. However, I think its still good to keep lugols just in case some corals need healing and it doesn't hurt to dose a little iodine every now and then if you have a lot of softies in your tank.

Would this method completely replace Logul's and ReVive?
 

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yep that is true. when i add a drop of iodine a week. xienas and zoas grows really fast.
For dipping yes. However, I think its still good to keep lugols just in case some corals need healing and it doesn't hurt to dose a little iodine every now and then if you have a lot of softies in your tank.
 

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