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I have these wire poly growing all over my rock, i think they come in with some a coral i brought from Gold and now it spread all over my tank. Does any know how to get rid of them or something that will eat them all?

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why are you so quick to get rid of them? i think they look kinda neat!

they are blue clove polyps and finding anything to eat them aint gonna happen , worse news is getting rid of them aint easy.

fluke tabs are hard to aquire but work well......needs to be done with caution though.

honestly your prob not gonna get rid of them if you dont use fluke tabs.

I think a tiger cowrie will eat them. But it will also at many other things you may not want it to.

Not sure they are blue clove polyp. Are they blue or are they kind of beige or brown?

I have a lot of them popping out of a rock and they do look a bit like clove but they are not blue. I let them be, they are not looking bad.

I am sure that there are some people out there that like them and may trade you rock if it was contained to a few peices...

If you had small amounts you could epoxy over them :neutral:

I have them too. They dont go away, they smother zoas, some SPS, sides of your tank, sandbed etc... I've learned to live with them even though i've thought about taking my tank down in those frustrating times dealing with them. Some SPS and LPS do kill them though. I feel your pain. Good luck:sad:

+1. Once you have them you're pretty much stuck with them. Fluke tabs will take them out, worked for me, but yes getting them might be a problem.

If you hate it so much then remove the live rock?

thanks all, i might take it out, its spreading so fast and its all over my sand bed.

if they haven't yet infested your entire tank you can smother them with epoxy. Just spread a thin layer of epoxy over the area of rock that they are on. Remove the epoxy in a few days and they will be done. If you see anymore in other areas, repeat the process.

What are these fluke tabs and where can I start looking for them? What are the negative effects it can have on tank, corals and fish?

is that pom pom xenia on the leftside of the pic ?

Too late now. Once they start spreading you're screwed.

Yes, is a Pom Pom Xenia.

Have a read here Bill

http://www.canreef.com/vbulletin/sho...ght=fluke+tabs

quick summary. 1 tab per 100g, kills all soft coral and cleaner shrimp. some fatality with crabs, all mine were fine. I did lose a bunch of pest snails, but turbos and astreas were ok. Left it in for about 48 hours, then added carbon. Scrubbed all rock with toothbrush, changed about 100% water volume over 5 days. So far, no return of the damn things!

Thanks bro. I'll give them a try if I can find some. But wont be for a month, i'm off to work in Biggar Sask. Hopefully my tank is'nt crashed when I get back.

Or you can be like me and just embrace the damn things.....and look at the bright side, at least they don't sting the corals they decide to grow on :lol:

Cant seem to find any fluke tabs. If anyone has two of them can you please sell them to me. I've looked up the ingrediants and have found a product with the same ingrediants and hoping it might possibly be the same thing.

Here it is:

http://www.jlaquatics.com/product/md...00+Tablet.html