Removing and dipping rocks with corals

[JoJosReef]

Moving in 2 weeks, so I am going to use this opportunity to rescape and try to rid my rocks/sand of a few pests (multiple eunice worms and 1 unidentified crab/shrimp/don't really know).

I want to try a 1.040sg dip to see if the worms come out of the rocks. problem is that some of the rocks have corals attached--one rock that I know houses a eunice is covered in mushrooms and zoas that are on the rock and not on frag plugs. Another has trumpets (moveable), blastos (movable) and an acan (not movable).

Tank: Fluval Evo 13.5g

A few questions:

1. Will the hypersalinity dip hurt the corals?

2. Does the hypersalinity dip kill the microbial population? Coraline algae?

3. Will this work? Anyone have recommendations on duration of dip, methods for getting pests to leave, etc?

Thanks!

 

[Saltyreef]

Some of your coraline will die when its removed from the water. The bacteria population will not be harmed.

The coral will be very upset and may cause some casualties.
Be very careful as you have a small tank and the water to upset coral goo ratio will be very concentrated lol.

 

[JoJosReef]

Some of your coraline will die when its removed from the water. The bacteria population will not be harmed.

The coral will be very upset and may cause some casualties.
Be very careful as you have a small tank and the water to upset coral goo ratio will be very concentrated lol.

Good point. I will be removing all unattached coral to separate containers during the move, so hopefully they stay in good shape. Thanks!