Thoughts on dipping entire zoa rock colonies?

[Cjud7982]

So I have been acquiring some large rock colonies of various zoas recently for fragging and trading. This is the first time that I have been getting this large of pieces, they're approx. 6"x6" rocks literally covered with various zoas, palys, and mushrooms. there are 3 or 4 of them. I am very familiar with dipping frags and inspecting/cleaning/ qt'ing them. However, I feel like the same rules may not apply to entire rocks. I have these rocks in a separate holding tank so that I can properly handle them. I have seen some nudis on the glass since adding them, as well as cleaned of nudi eggs on a few frag heads. I would like to move them to my actual frag tank to let them grow out while I get ready to frag them up.

So would you recommend a dip on these? I have been having great success with a combination of dips, h202, revive, and bayers on my frags. But I do not want to cause a major killing spree of life on these larger rocks and risk crashing my frag tank or leaching the cleaning agents into the system. FYI my frag tank system is fishless system, so I do not have the option of using any predatory fish.

Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated

 

[saltyfilmfolks]

Use flatworm exit. Part of what a qt should be I think. A tank you can nuke.

 

[Cjud7982]

Heres a couple pictures in case that helps.

Thanks for the response. I have not seen or heard of flatworm exit. On to studying this

 

[Cjud7982]

Use flatworm exit. Part of what a qt should be I think. A tank you can nuke.

So after some reading, and seeing many successful people using it I may have to get a box of it. I will go ahead and add the rock to my frag tank after acclimating/inspecting it closer then treat with this product. By the reading it looks like it does some damage to the zoa eating nudis as well thank you for the info.

 

[saltyfilmfolks]

So after some reading, and seeing many successful people using it I may have to get a box of it. I will go ahead and add the rock to my frag tank after acclimating/inspecting it closer then treat with this product. By the reading it looks like it does some damage to the zoa eating nudis as well thank you for the info.

Your welcome.
Just like any dip for nudis , you may have to re dose. Eggs. Nothing kills the eggs.

 

[Cjud7982]

That's what I figured. I just scraped about a half a dozen heads that had eggs on them off before transferring them. Found two nudis and pulled them out and scraped some bubble algea. Hope for the best! Haha here they sit for now