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Old 11-29-2010, 05:48 AM
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I've asked before on how to get rid of these ugly polyps that spread extremely fast. I've turned the rocks over so that they were in the sand and i've tried coating with kalk paste. What else can I do other than cooking the rocks? I can't do that because every rock that they are on has been encrusted with an SPS of some sort.
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Old 11-29-2010, 06:32 AM
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I'll take a bunch
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Old 11-29-2010, 07:06 AM
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manually remove them
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Old 11-29-2010, 07:35 AM
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havent had to deal with it so its just a shot in the dark but boiling water and syringe/baster????
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Old 11-29-2010, 12:41 PM
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OMG save some for me. I WANT THEM!!!! Ive been looking for these for such a long time and ive had them shipped to me but they always show up dead. I would love these to take over my tank.
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I had one growing in the dark pretty much. Cut a bit of the rock off and now have a small frag of them. Look really nice.
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Old 11-29-2010, 04:24 PM
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No! No! LOL You guys are looking at the wrong polyps. It's the clove polyps in the top right hand part of the pic. Kinda purpley brown color. But skabooya you can have some of those other polyps when you come to town, I have lots in my refugiun. You don't want those other things.
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Old 11-29-2010, 04:39 PM
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I could have sworn I saw an SPS dominated tank once with these all over the rocks. The person said they don't harm SPS and just grow around them. Are they actually harming corals or growing over them? I think they're pretty but I suppose I also really like GSP and have decided against them too.
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I could have sworn I saw an SPS dominated tank once with these all over the rocks. The person said they don't harm SPS and just grow around them. Are they actually harming corals or growing over them? I think they're pretty but I suppose I also really like GSP and have decided against them too.
yep he's on reef central. remember seeing it as well
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Those were the ones i was talking about. Those look like ice blue cloves but the pic is kinda dark so its more difficult to tell.
In any case, Ive read that they can be killed by starvation (keeping trates very low for a long time), scrubbing them off constantly, putting a stinging coral around them, using kalk paste, boiling water when out of the tank, sometimes pep shrimp eat them aparently.

Just tossing around things ive read about cloves
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