1. Yes I am a noob. I spend hours and hours researching and looking on forums to try to increase my knowledge, but as we have seen in this example not all advice is good advice.
2. Found this particular advice on a forum (don't remember which forum at the moment)
3. I honestly thought I was doing the right thing....

*sigh* live and learn...
4. For future reference how long is a FW dip for a coral for pests etc.
supposed to be???
5. Should I leave the rock covered in (probably) dead GSP on the off chance it recovers or no? Or should I just rip off all the GSP on it?