Brad,If you want some of that Bayer insecticide, I have some.
Just picked it up yesterday. Have any friends coming to the lower mainland?

Thanks, but the RPS is good for my purposes. I'll just be taking frags off colonies and treating, then add to new tank.

Just an update. I have removed several frags and just took out the 5 largest colonies I had. Dipped everything, no worms to be found. Seems they might stay localized to some corals before reaching epidemic levels. Weird.

Also weird is looking at my tank with half the coral bio-load missing :)

Thats great news Brad!
Dont worry tho with your grown rates it will fill up in no time!
And no thats "not what she said" lol :mrgreen:

Rich, this tank is on it's way out, so no, it won't fill very quickly :) But hopefully the frags going into the new tank will!

Yes i know the "cube" mission.
That's what i was getting at, the new cube will be full before you know it!

Ah. Well, it will take a couple years to get to where I'm happy, but it's been a long time coming. Exciting doing a new build!

Sorry to hear about the flatworms.

I see on your new build you will have a Zeo system. Were you not using it on the tank you are tearing down? Did you use the flatworm stop? Has anybody used it?
I ask because I am starting my system with Zeo and I was planning to use the flatworm stop from the get go.
Guess I am asking if your flatworm problem could have been avoided if you used this product (without being insensitive about your losses)?
Following along with the new build!

Flatworm stop does not stop the flatworms from existing. It makes the tissue of the coral thicker giving a bit more resistant. Also flatworm stop needs a min of three months before you may see a benefit

It's also good for richer colors

Zeo has nothing to do with flatwormStop, and no, I haven't used it. As Proteus said, it doesn't stop them, just slows them down. Using it for no reason sounds expensive, and I think the money is better spent on dip and a magnifying glass. Dipping all incoming pieces, every.single.time should avoid them. I go them because I missed dipping a couple pieces that I shortly after realized were infected. I thought I'd got the affected frag out in time, but apparently not :)

As for losses, I've only lost one full piece, and half of another. So far no other coral has shown them after dipping.