Bayer Advanced Equivalent

[Mebeknob]

Will this work? Or is there and equivalent at HimeDepot

?

 

[josh.j.avila]

I would stick with what everyone uses as it's been used by a lot of reefers. I use it and dip my corals 2x week for 4-6 weeks and it's payed off very well, especially with SPS. I've tried some other dips for SPS and it really ticked them off and caused RTN. Bayer and another non-aquarium products have been my go to.

 

[dbl]

You want Bayer Complete, liquid version. They sell it at HD. May be a different label as this was purchased a while ago.

 

[josh.j.avila]

You want Bayer Complete, liquid version. They sell it at HD. May be a different label as this was purchased a while ago.

that's the same one I got.

 

[Mebeknob]

I would stick with what everyone uses as it's been used by a lot of reefers. I use it and dip my corals 2x week for 4-6 weeks and it's payed off very well, especially with SPS. I've tried some other dips for SPS and it really ****** them off and caused RTN. Bayer and another non-aquarium products have been my go to.

All your corals? Like all your frags?

 

[josh.j.avila]

Yup - all my frags and if I ever move anything from one tank to another it still goes into a frag tank and dipped.

 

[Mebeknob]

Yup - all my frags and if I ever move anything from one tank to another it still goes into a frag tank and dipped.

What regimen do you use?
I found the right stuff and I did about 1 oz of Bayer to 1 quart of tank water. Dipped for 7 minutes. Double rinsed and onto tank.

 

[josh.j.avila]

I hate to say this but I do this. I have a container and fill it with tank water and add enough for it to no longer be visible. I do a 10 minute dip and then use the same container and rinse with salt water then it goes into a rinse container and gets a rinse and then another container and gets a rinse.

I don't use the same dip for another coral I pour it out and use fresh dip. I'll repeated this a couple times a week for at least a month.

 

[Mebeknob]

That makes sense.

 

[Mebeknob]

What do you do for pieces you get that have algae on them?

 

[josh.j.avila]

For zoas hydrogen peroxide and salt water dip

 

[Knapp870]

I do the same but find no need to do multiple dips. Just once when I receive something which should nuke anything alive off then rinse and into display it goes

 

[josh.j.avila]

I do the same but find no need to do multiple dips. Just once when I receive something which should nuke anything alive off then rinse and into display it goes

The problem that worries me is everything has life stages and any eggs on there will not be affected by the dip.

 

[Arron209]

Wait for it....

 

[Knapp870]

I figure I went 10 years and never dipped anything with no issues, now that I'm dipping I'm doubly protected!