DITTO !


Granted they add a lot of color to a tank (especially after 6 months), but after 12 months - you realize they're everywhere, in the sand, pumps, even the sump!


They're impossible to remove (tiny and everywhere). I've also read reports that once they reach plague proportions - they can start to kill off SPS.

Max.

You know what they say about one man's trash being another man's treasure :lol: I've been living with Blue Cloves for years. I love them. I have blue cloves butting up against soft corals (zoas, mushrooms, gsp, etc), as well as LPS and SPS and they don't sting any of my corals. I wonder if there are different types of blue/purple cloves and some sting while others don't?

Blue cloves at the base of most of my SPS (frags and colonies)..

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8352/8...9bc8e618_z.jpg
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8345/8...7da3be45_z.jpg
Blue cloves up against zoas..

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8327/8...d8b6e4a3_z.jpg

Blue cloves on clams:

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8067/8...a8f792aa_z.jpg

This particular clam now has his shell COMPLETELY covered in cloves. Looks kinda cool. :lol:

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8342/8...48dfc8a9_z.jpg

I can understand that some people just simply find them unattractive (beauty is in the eye of the beholder), but never understood how blue cloves killed corals.

By the way, that reef central link doesn't work?

Sumps and pumps ? wow, there really must be different types of blue cloves. I've lived with mine for 3 years now and have never seen a single clove in my sump, overflow box, or powerheads or pump. And, I often take a toothbrush to a patch of cloves if i want to clear a patch to mount new frags. I find them fragile this way.

The link worked good for me. Yea Kien there must be different kinds. The clove polyps in my tank would take over SPS and pretty much any zoa that went in to my tank. Mine were a more purple brownish, not nice like yours.

Ya, mine are definitely more blue than purple so maybe they are two different cloves. I always assumed that when people talked about blue/purple cloves that they were talking about the same species and that blue/purple was interchangeable.

In fact, my cloves definitely don't look like these. These ones seem to extend up a bit where as mine have virtually no extension to their polyps.

Original poster's pic..

http://www.aquacon.com/images/LavenderClovePolyp.jpg

My cloves are much more delicate than these appear to be. I can easily smother my cloves by just running my fingers across them and they will die and not come back (until new ones regrow that area).

ok enough. i'm starting to miss mine (but only a little).

i've had people come by recently and ask me for frags of my cloves. I have to always ask them if they are sure they want them :lol:

they're very pretty. the real question is do you want them nowhere or everywhere lol.

I like my blue cloves......it would be nice if they didn't have a secret agenda to take over the world but you have to admire their persistence :lol:

has anyone tried a choc chip seastar to get rid of them?
they like to eat my zenia

The biggest issue I have with these polyps is that they trap tons of detris, crowd out zoas, prevent SPS from encrusting, etc...


I had the really nice blue ones too, and when you cleared a spot, 10 more would spring up somewhere else - plus eventually they'd grow back.


Max.

2 exact reasons they had to go in my tank.

Spencer tried, not much luck I recall.

why :O ?

Apparently there's a slug that eats them


http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a1...ps6191c6bf.jpg

Because the cover everything, prevent new SPS from encrusting properly, trap tons of crap and you can't isolate them to a separate area of the tank. They spawn by releasing eggs and end up everywhere! I started with 2 polyps hitchhiking on a frag and ended up with millions of them. Getting rid of them is nearly impossible too. Chemicals, if you can find them, and apparently this slug above that are probably not just sitting at the LFS waiting to go home with you! :)

I'll second that. They're evil and those that sell or give them away are just as bad. It takes years of frustration trying to get rid of them.

Or a couple of well placed Fluke Tabs -lol

Haha well that too. If your lucky enough to find someone that is nice enough to part with some. Fluke tabs all the way. 4 days of tense watching the suckers die off is way better than years of stress. Most hardcore reefers have some kind of OCD. They can relate.:lol:

Said slug is awesome!!!!!!!!! Eats the tops off them like lollipops.

Ouch.

What,else,does the slug eat on the reef?

Oh Kien everyone knows you got nice ones:lol:
Polyps that is.

Are fluke tabs not being made anymore? I wonder if they eventually expire? I found a pack from my old freshwater daze!

dibs!!!!

Actuuuuallly, you owe me a couple. I got the blue devils from you!! lol :razz:

Haha along with everything else!

I have a few in my tank and I quite like them..they never seem to get out of hand tho.

Ok, I had that one coming!! hehe

the pink cucumber slug :O ? once i bought one from King ED last year their boss took off the pink cucumber and give it to me and when i bought it home it killed all my corals and fish so i dont mind to have purple clove tank :P

http://www.seaslugforum.net/find/marioliv - This is as close as I can find. Turns out there's the added bonus of eating encrusting gorgs too! <3

I have it with a host of different corals including Zoas, several LPS, a sunset monti, etc. It only comes out at night and I only see it munching on the patch of blue polyps. The thing is that it eats SLOOOWWWWWWWWW. It would be a simple matter of catching and removing it should it become a nuisance. The nice thing about slugs is that they tend to focus on a VERY narrow selection of dietary prey species (think monti eating nudies or aiptasia eating berghia) which allows us to employ them for very specific tasks.

I want some

Hi what's this slug called and does it only eat blue clove polyps? Thanks!

Refer to Albert's posts as I have no clue

Man I'm so pi**ed. I came back from my final 2 weeks of work in the praries to see the polyps starting to pop up in my tank again. I followed everyones dosing reccomendations. They were all gone when I left. What a disappointment to come home to. And my tank is looking so good right now too. Actually was starting to collect more zoas and palys again. I want to rip my tank down now.:sad:

I would like something purple for a change, send them my way to the island. Ken

Is this what you are discussing here?

http://www.canadacorals.com/collecti...ove-polyp-frag

Yep :)

Nice looking polyp frag, but after reading this thread "NO THANKS" :hand:

See here:http://www.canreef.com/vbulletin/sho...d.php?t=105909