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when i first used bayer to treat my corals i was basting them and seeing them fly off. I was thinking wow, bayer really works! Hahahaha. I found a flatworm on my plug but forgot about it and left it in the dip for over two hours. I saw the worm still on the plug and when i blew him off it was still crawling around on the bottom. Water was very milky too.
I recommend industrial strength coral rx or any other dip just not bayer for flatworms. It has mono sodium glutamate that kills hard shelled organisms only.
 

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I dont know which one i used. A guy I know gave me a blue bottle w/o a label and told me he came up with a new aefw dip formula that doesnt stress out corals. Several weeks later, i went to my friends work and saw the same blue bottle with the label bayer insecticide. My friend bought it for his reef tank in his office. I was pretty ****** because I was unknowingly handling poison. I confronted him about it and he just laughed. true story.

it definitely is a poison (not allowed everywhere), handle with plenty of care.
But it does work (IME). I think i can use even less than the dose i've used.
 

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I dont know which one i used. A guy I know gave me a blue bottle w/o a label and told me he came up with a new aefw dip formula that doesnt stress out corals. Several weeks later, i went to my friends work and saw the same blue bottle with the label bayer insecticide. My friend bought it for his reef tank in his office. I was pretty ****** because I was unknowingly handling poison. I confronted him about it and he just laughed. true story.

What kind of person would do that?
 

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Nuocmam told me msg! lol. He specializes in this kinda stuff so idk.

it definitely is a poison (not allowed everywhere), handle with plenty of care.
But it does work (IME). I think i can use even less than the dose i've used.
the one I used most likely wasn't the concentrated version if you're saying that it works well for you. speaking of poisonous, I wonder how poisonous the other dips are. tried looking up the ingredients for coral rx and it says proprietary and contains hazardous materials not in reportable levels.
What kind of person would do that?
I have no idea. back to the dipping deepwaters sunject
 

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Interesting. So do smooth skin/deepwaters care about Bayer? Sounds like they are least affected by Revive?

Steezy, how much Bayer to water ratio did you use?
 

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Interesting. So do smooth skin/deepwaters care about Bayer? Sounds like they are least affected by Revive?

Steezy, how much Bayer to water ratio did you use?

Deepwaters do well with Bayer, that is the reason why I started to use it on them. I did not have good luck with CoralRx or Revive at all on deepwaters.
 

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