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: