Freshwater dipping rock to get rid of Red Planaria

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Hello all,
I am transferring my 29 into a 75 and my 29 has an abundant red planaria population. I do not want to use FW Exit but if it’s truly the end all be all then I will. But my question is:

During my tank transfer, could I put my fish into the new, cycled, system (2 clowns) as well as my corals that are not glued to rocks, then soak my current rocks in rodi for a few minutes, then put into my new tank?

Do you think this would kill off the flatworms at least enough to be taken care of by a future melanarus wrasse?

Or should I treat the tank. I really do not want to kill my clownfish. Maybe move them over to the 75 that is cycled and by that time will already have a tester fish (probably a royal gramma) in it?

Or maybe could I have a bucket of saltwater with flatworm exit in it and soak the rocks in there for a half an hour then a half an hour in clean saltwater then into the new tank?
 

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I don’t think corals would do well in freshwater ….
And not sure if rocks in fw will hurt any biological bacteria .

I do know from experience . As soon as the fw are in freshwater they die or just stick to the side of the bucket .
 
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I don’t think corals would do well in freshwater ….
And not sure if rocks in fw will hurt any biological bacteria .

I do know from experience . As soon as the fw are in freshwater they die or just stick to the side of the bucket .
They cling to surfaces so lazily. I feel like sloshing the rocks around in a bucket with fw exit will literally remove all of them
 

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