Dipping Dendros in Bayer

[Bao]

Hello Everyone,

I have a large colony of fathead Dendros, about 10 big heads and several small ones. Kept them for more than 10 years. Sometimes I get lazy and didn't feed them for a whole month and yet they survived for so many years. Few months ago, I noticed that they are dying, so I put in more effort and feed them every 2 days. But doesn't matter how much I feed them, they still slowly dying.

Now I noticed that they have those tiny worms crawling out of the skeleton and stealing foods.. Could it be that those worms are killing them?
Anyway, I want to dip them into Bayer to get rid of the worms but never done that before.
Will Dendros survive the Bayer dip?
Will Bayer kill those worms?

Thanks,
Bao

 

[afboundguy]

Not sure about proper dipping but if you've never seen small worms before it started dying they could just be doing their job as a CUC and cleaning up the dying coral.

I know bristleworms get a bad rap for "killing" corals and fish when they're just doing there job and getting rid of the already dead stuff so that was my first thought about the dendros.

 

[TPhan]

U will most likely kill the worms that live inside the coral with dipping, thats y its not recommended to dip dendros.

 

[Bao]

This is a regular Dendro, not the walking Dendro with the worm that does the walking

 

[TPhan]

This is a regular Dendro, not the walking Dendro with the worm that does the walking

IC

 

[dz6t]

I will try iodine first, then flatworm exit next if iodine doesn’t work.

 

[Bao]

I already ordered a bottle of CoralRX. 2 more big heads are dead.
I will dip them once I get the coralRX