How to Kill Purple Clove Polyps DIE! DIE! DIE! :)

[input80]

Old thread, I know. Need to stop this ongoing infestation, our zoas are being smothered out for starters. I'm almost ready to restart the tank with new/unaffected rock/sand. Please help me to not do this. I do recall that some subsided a cpl mths ago with a chemiclean (for red cyano) treatment. Did anyone confirm that carbon dosing actually helped, if yes, how was it applied?

[Aquattro]

Horrible little things, huh??

[input80]

Man they spread fast

[DAVE]

You could try what they did in the article below. Haven't had that issue so cant really comment on it.

https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/el...dazole.308994/

[Tyfighter]

I recently dealt with them and it wasn't fun. I tried everything the only things that worked was fendobenzol which you need a prescription from a vet to get. PM me if you need some I know of where you can get it now
It's been 7 months and I haven't seen a single clove. I did however lose the mojority of my cleanup crew and a large portion of my Sps. I'm not sure if it was the fendobenzol or the purple clove dying off was what actually killed the Sps.

Personly I don't think people should sell them period. They don't just stay confined to a single rock, they will spawn and pop up all over the tank randomly one day and then you are screwed.

[xandraescape]

I have tried to conduct some research on the internet and have seen this community thread. Maybe this could help here's the link,

http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/sh....php?t=1868299

[input80]

Thank you Tyfighter & xandraescape

[input80]

Originally Posted by input80

Thank you Tyfighter & xandraescape

Dave also.

[corpusse]

I would love to try one of these treatments but I have way too many softies plus a big portion of my cleanup crew is 1000s of astrena starfish.

To be fair my purple polyps have really gone down from the infestation I had a few years ago. I find LPS will encrust over them, like favia, gonestra and blastomussa even of course this will take many years unless you put some fast growing chalice over them.

I hope one day someone will sell a clove polyp eating nudibranch. That's my last hope I just deal with having them on a few rocks these days.