Fluke Tabs added
 

Ok finally had enough of my brown Antheilia so i dosed one a a half fluke tabs from what I've read other than soft corals possible crabs and shrimp nothing else will be affected ..
So lets give it a few days and see what happens if it's not a total melt down i have a few other tabs left for others who are battling this plague ..

Well it's all dead in less than 12 hours seems like everything else made it though ok to .
Time for a water change :)

Wonder if that would work on blue star polyps :)

was just thinking the same thing lol

trilinearmipmap suggests it will. I might try that...

It Kills all soft corals from my understanding blue cloves xenia anthelia etc .

sweet lol just so were on the same page are you talking about blue clove polyps??

there ya go awesome thanks:)


got a mass amount of blue and red clove polyps:(

Almost every exposed area without a coral mounted to it is completely covered in blue clove. I'm gonna go buy some fluke tabs -lol

John, where did you get it from?

Yes .
My tank contains mostly sps but there are some lps zoo's and a rose bta none were effected.
Oh i had some hydroids to and there also dead, so i guess that might mean that my millipora might be as well :/
So one loss i guess .

You can't buy them anymore in the states or canada i do how ever have 3 more pills left one was enough to kill all the soft corals in my 120 with in 12 hours

I'd probably need 2, but you're best to hang onto yours, the stuff might come back. I think I might have a source for some..

Well your welcome to two shot me a pm if you like i can send a few over .

Update
Running carbon and skimmer plugged in and working normally.

Found the crabs that were eating my acro's dead :) well on there way to being dead so this might be a problem if you have emeralds or hermits snails however seem to be just fine .

I have a hard time growing the blue clove. They grow a bit then they melt away. I use carbon and I have heard it will kill them...it seem to work for me as I have less and less of it.

I use carbon, it doesn't seem to have much effect :)

Update
Its been 24 hours and it seems like the only things that died were
one cleaner shrimp
two hitchhiker crabs
and my fire coral .
Did a late night check of the aquarium there are still tons of pods swimming around, worms and other small aquatic life are unaffected .
Clams and true corals are all doing fine .

Did you have any mushrooms? I have a plague of mushrooms and I would love to "kill em all!"

Only one or two and they made it though ok

There's a thread on RC a guy started who says his tank as overrun with them.. Looking at the before and after photos seems it does work.

A quick google shows two ingredients in fluke tabs. I have a jar of FLAW ( FLuke and ANchor worms) that is one of the two ingredients.

Does Anyone in Canada have access to these? I have a forest of anthelia at the back of my tank, that I'm sick of trimming, as it creeps to the front of my tank. Any help would be appreciated.

Ryan

How big is your tank ?
I have a few pills to spare i would suggest removing as much of the anthelia by hand though before adding the fluke tabs.

John I'm going to help out ryan and ship him some out this week.Hang on to yours,but if brads order doesn't pan out,i'm going to help him out as well.

Thanks again dreef! Ya I'm goingto manually remove as much as I can, with the amount I have I'm sure there would be a ammonia spike, I also have blue clove polyps in abundance aswell so I'm alittle apprehensive about doing it but I can't stand the anthelia or the bcp. I will take a pic of the forest for a before and after pic.

Waving hand is the plague,my wife thought it was pretty when i made the mistake yrs. ago.I was lucky i could remove the 14 lb. rock it was on.A pressure washer just peeled it off,it never returned :)

Ok, 18 hours into treatment, I see bits of cleaner shrimp, so I'm assuming they died and got eaten. Water is a bit cloudy, so I've turned the skimmer back on, I'll give it a bit to add carbon or do the water change. As for the blue cloves, only about 3 billion left, although they look agitated. Hopefully they disappear soon. Hate to have killed my shrimp for nothing :(

For those who have done this and killed the blue cloves, how long did it take for them to be gone?

I'm sorry Brad,i meant no harm to your tank critters :( Another member "collin" got some tabs from me and nuked his waving hand and had no losses.

Nothing to be sorry about, I knew the shrimp were at risk. just hope the blue stuff goes away eventually. it doesn't look happy at all and there is some recession, so I'm hopeful it dies completely. :)

Brad, Do the blue cloves harm other corals?
R.

Not really. They might prevent some encrusting, but they just grow in plague proportions.

Since last treatment update I've lost the three turbos but nothing else .
Not one piece of soft coral is left though.
(it was all gone in about 48hours)

I'm at about 28 hours now, and the cloves look really ****ed...hopefully it keeps going that way.

haha i have palys that have blue cloves growing right up the stalk thats how intrusive they are but it obviously doesnt bother the palys as they are open all the time, im just amazed it was able to grow up the stalks like that:)

Seriously, I'm pretty sure if my fish slow down they'll start getting over grown in the damn things!!
On a good note, I can start to see rock in the tank again, hopefully by Monday all these blue monsters are gone!

Keep us posted, I might have to try some if it works for you.

oh geee..when I think that I have so much trouble growing those blue cloves. They grow and then for no apparent reason they just melt alway. wierd.

When you want them you can't grow them and when you don't want them you can't get rid of them. I wish I had them all over my rocks, everywhere except on corals.

Update. It appears that the tabs may have in fact killed the blue cloves. Now, before you run out and find some tabs, be careful with how much "dead" you want in your tank. I figure I had enough cloves to cover 12 sq. ft. Now that it's all dying or dead, I "may" have a bit a water quality issue. By bit, I mean my tank is cloudy, smelly, skimmer going nuts water quality issues. Mixing a new 50g bin right now, I'll probably need to change out 200g of water by the end of the week end.
While this is what I might consider bad, it was somewhat expected with the amount if life I was killing in a closed system.
Hopefully it doesn't continue downhill, or it might mean I nuked my whole tank.
For a few polyps(less than 100k :)), fine, but in a large tank with every surface covered, it's not really the smartest thing you could do :razz:

OMG your brave.. Your tank is so nice!

Ya, brave is one word you could use. Not the one I'm going with, but I'll take it :)
The tank, or rather the whole room smells like dying crap...skimmer had chunks in it like I've never seen before. But all the critters seem fine, and no browning of the SPS (yet). I'll do another 25% WC tomorrow and try to siphon off some of the dead polyp tissue. It's really ugly right now.