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Old 01/03/2008, 01:53 PM
Ooulophilia Ooulophilia is offline
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have been messing around with this stuff - it contains pine oil, a phenolic disinfectant which works as an endocrine disruptor. This is why it smells like pine-sol. Some interesting/boring reading:

http://epa.gov/oppsrrd1/REDs/pineoil_red.pdf

From my basic observations, it will make monti eating flatworms release, and consequently die, but is ineffective on the eggs at the recommended dosage.

On a side note, I mixed up an emulsion of pine oil, added this to a dip and when using the concentrations indicated in the epa file, the result was quite opaque, and the corals did not respond well. I am trying lower concentrations, will report back with results.