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

[Aquattro]

Thanks Max, I'll give those a read.

[mohammadali]

why would u kill em ?
give me some free frags

[Aquattro]

Originally Posted by mohammadali

why would u kill em ?
give me some free frags

I would have to really dislike someone to give them any of these!

[MaxDraco]

DITTO !

Originally Posted by Aquattro

I would have to really dislike someone to give them any of these!

Granted they add a lot of color to a tank (especially after 6 months), but after 12 months - you realize they're everywhere, in the sand, pumps, even the sump!


They're impossible to remove (tiny and everywhere). I've also read reports that once they reach plague proportions - they can start to kill off SPS.

Max.

[kien]

Originally Posted by MaxDraco

Granted they add a lot of color to a tank (especially after 6 months), but after 12 months - you realize they're everywhere, in the sand, pumps, even the sump!

Sumps and pumps ? wow, there really must be different types of blue cloves. I've lived with mine for 3 years now and have never seen a single clove in my sump, overflow box, or powerheads or pump. And, I often take a toothbrush to a patch of cloves if i want to clear a patch to mount new frags. I find them fragile this way.

[Madreefer]

The link worked good for me. Yea Kien there must be different kinds. The clove polyps in my tank would take over SPS and pretty much any zoa that went in to my tank. Mine were a more purple brownish, not nice like yours.

[kien]

Originally Posted by Madreefer

The link worked good for me. Yea Kien there must be different kinds. The clove polyps in my tank would take over SPS and pretty much any zoa that went in to my tank. Mine were a more purple brownish, not nice like yours.

Ya, mine are definitely more blue than purple so maybe they are two different cloves. I always assumed that when people talked about blue/purple cloves that they were talking about the same species and that blue/purple was interchangeable.

[MaxDraco]

The biggest issue I have with these polyps is that they trap tons of detris, crowd out zoas, prevent SPS from encrusting, etc...


I had the really nice blue ones too, and when you cleared a spot, 10 more would spring up somewhere else - plus eventually they'd grow back.


Max.

[Aquattro]

Originally Posted by MaxDraco

The biggest issue I have with these polyps is that they trap tons of detris,..., prevent SPS from encrusting

2 exact reasons they had to go in my tank.

[mohammadali]

Originally Posted by Aquattro

I would have to really dislike someone to give them any of these!

why :O ?