Getting rid of blue cloves?

Youngster Dan · #1 12-15-2010, 06:16 PM

I regret ever putting blue clove polyps in my tank, as they are now everywhere and spread ridiculously fast. Is there any way to remove them safely or control their numbers with some sort of nudi, or fish? My tank is mostly sps/lps with very few softies.

I may just have to suck it up and trade, or cook the polyps off. I feel like if I were to try and scrape/scrub 'em off they would just keep coming back?

Aquattro · #2 12-15-2010, 06:26 PM

I had these growing everywhere! I just left them, and they died off in a short time. I have absolutely none left now..

Youngster Dan · #3 12-15-2010, 07:11 PM

Any idea why they died out?

Aquattro · #4 12-15-2010, 07:13 PM

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Originally Posted by Youngster Dan

Any idea why they died out?

Nope, everything was good for them to grow, but when they got to a certain point, they just vanished. I was going to tear the tank apart, but glad I waited

Delphinus · #5 12-15-2010, 07:39 PM

Man, my butterflies won't even touch those. They must taste really bad. They just spread and spread and spread. Manual removal seems to be the only hope for me.

Remember someone posting about using an electric toothbrush or something to mash them up off rock and supposedly worked well for them. I think it might have been Willow and/or Ivy. I could see it working but I'm pretty sure I wouldn't be able to handle the smell if I tried it myself.

Madreefer · #6 12-15-2010, 08:04 PM

I have posted about the same problem. Tried kalk paste tried scraping them off. Nothing works as they keep coming back. Good luck!

Borderjumper · #7 12-15-2010, 08:11 PM

Mine will all die off.. Then re appear.. Then die

I cover them up with aiptasia X.. Give em a good coating and turn your pumps off for an hour..it Kills em dead make sure you cover the mat and not just the polyps.

Youngster Dan · #8 12-15-2010, 08:41 PM

Hmm, thanks for the responses. Lots to think about. The cloves wouldn't be so bad if they spread like GSP, but they seem to float off and populate other parts of the tank. Little jerks.

Since they seem to wax and wane and there isn't much as far as bilogical control, I may just leave them and try to control them with aiptasia x and manual removal. That being said, I am taking the tank down this week so it is a good time for more drastic measures.While the tank is being taken down I could trade the rock in. I have worked hard at getting good live rock with as little of the nasty hitchhikers as possible, so it would be a shame to replace the blue cloves with aiptasia or something similar.

I still remember putting in the blue cloves thinking that they were going to be a mistake. But apparently my tank was lacking "something blue".

daniella3d · #9 12-16-2010, 04:22 PM

I wish I could tell you why they are absolutely not growing in my tank but they don't. I use carbon filtration and I have read that this can slow down their growth or even kill them. Dunno if this is the case with both my aquariums but they just don,t grow. I have lotst all my clove polyps, green, blue whatever, and now even losing some that were given to me with the mention "be carefull it will spread like mad" but it's dying.

I have mixed reef with sps, lps and soft...Nothing is perfect..I wish they would grow like mad in my aquarium.