I always tell everyone to dip no matter what because that’s what I do BUT we are pest free other than pods and brittle stars. A customer tried to accuse me of flat worms about 15 months ago…. Even though I knew he was lying I had to take the claim seriously so 2 weeks of work taking every single colony out and looking at it under a magnifying glass I found 0 bites 0 eggs 0 flat worms. Each colony got vigorously shaken in a bucket of water and not one bad thing came off any of them. It’s VERY easy to remain pest free if you do things correctly. Not many vendors are pest free! They may make the claim to keep your business but most don’t take the hours and hours to dip QT chop of bases all that good stuff. I put my corals through hell to make sure I don’t get any pests into the farm and ruin everything Iv worked so hard for. This is my full time job and I don’t play when it comes to money lol
So do you mean chop it off at the base, so that no part of the plug goes into the system, even if the coral has encrusted the entire frag plug?