I have a large cap that was being eaten by nudibranchs and didn't have any coral rx so I did a bayer dip. I rinsed it 3 times. Later that night I was looking with a flashlight and noticed copods going in circles on the rocks. The next night I haven't seen a single copod and only a few crabs survived. I'm running carbon right now. How long do you think it will be before I can introduce copods back in? Btw I haven't seen any more nudibranchs either but I'm sure there will be more.
Bayer dip residue!
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Large water change and carbon.. should sort its self out rather quickly. I was thinking of doing bayer myself because I discovered last night I have nudis on my monti but I read about residue harming inverts. I've read if you rinse a few times and let the frag soak in fresh salt water for 30 mins all the bayer should come off after the dip
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Interesting. I've used nothing but Bayer and haven't ever experienced this. Curious...how long did you rinse each time?
This was a big thing when bayer was first being used, lots of people killed stuff in their tanks from dipping corals with rock or skeleton showing. One reason I don’t use bayer for most coral dips.
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Was it just the coral or was it attached to rock. If so, regardless of the dip used, it gets absorbed into the rock and then slowly releases to the tank. That's my guess on what happened.
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Yes lol kinda confused me at first
Been using for a few months now i have wondered about this Though since the bottle actually sais on it rainproof for 24 hours but I never had a issue....I don’t dip frag plugs though every coral gets a new one what was your Bayer to saltwater ratio?
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Not saying that is the problem, but I've always rinsed three times for right around 10 minutes each. I usually swirl the coral around in the rinse waters too. I've always used display water for each of the three rinses.
Since it wasn't on a rock or plug, it sounds like maybe they weren't rinsed quite enough and that may be the problem. As suggested, run some carbon and a couple of water changes and you should be back to normal pretty quickly.
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I appreciate it. I agree I should have rinsed better. Should also let it soak in rinse water better being I let it soak in the dip for 15 minutes. I still haven't seen any nudibranchs back on it yet. Hopefully it will heal up.
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Since there were a couple of comments above questioning Bayer as a coral dip, and to anyone stumbling on this thread, Paul @redfishbluefish actually has a nice thread on Bayer. In the first post or two is a picture of the Bayer product being discussed. I know some of the big box stores stopped carrying it, but Amazon can be your friend.
As discussed here, rinsing well is important.
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As discussed here, rinsing well is important.
Bayer Insecticidal Coral Dip
There are many on this site that coral dip using Bayer Advance Complete Insect Killer to dip their corals. I want to see if we can put together a thread that captures the dose you are using. I go off the original post (Video) on using Bayer and use 3 mls per 300 mls of tank water to dip...
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