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

bignose · #1 07-26-2010, 03:45 AM

Whats a fluke tab?

Norstar · #2 07-26-2010, 03:49 AM

It's a pill for treating fresh water fish.

I would caution people that this treatment is very risky. I wouldn't recommend it unless you are very sure of what you are doing.

trilinearmipmap · #3 07-26-2010, 04:11 AM

My Copperband never touched the Clove Polyps.

Actually I was very afraid to try the Fluke Tab treatment. Instict tells us not to medicate our reefs. I read a few threads about it on Reef Central and PM'ed a couple of people and that reassured me. Again, I don't recommend medicating a reef if you have other options but this worked for me and others without any problems.

Snappy · #4 07-26-2010, 05:40 AM

My Asfer & Majestic angels devoured all the clove polyps I had.

edikpok · #5 07-26-2010, 03:08 PM

I have a bubble coral on one side of my clove coral and a brain on the other side. These corals seem to kill the clove polyps as soon as they start spreading. Mind you, brain coral tentacles are very dangerous to many other corals (if they touch)..

intarsiabox · #6 07-27-2010, 12:31 AM

I run carbon and my blue clove polyps do fine. In the last year they have only expanded maybe 2" of territory but don't appear to harm anything. My SPS just grows right over top of them and they mix in with some of my zoanthids with no problems to either party. At the current rate of growth it'll be about another 10 years before I have a plague. I kind of like the look of them myself but I feel your pain as my GSP is another story.

Norstar · #7 07-27-2010, 04:14 AM

My problem was that they were taking everything over. In fact, I just removed some off one of my softies. They were growing right on the tissue. It was only a matter of time before they started growing over some of my favourite corals.

I think I will have to continue with the Aiptasia remover

mohammadali · #8 06-14-2012, 08:48 AM

dont kill em give me some of it

RuGlu6 · #9 06-15-2012, 05:02 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by mohammadali

dont kill em give me some of it

Hey Mohammadali if you end up getting some for yourself, pls get some for me, i will pay you $5 for a frag.
Thx

MMAX · #10 06-15-2012, 01:24 PM

The people asking for these damn things may really be asking for it. I don't think they know what they are getting into. Do your research people. If you think you can contain them on a single piece of rock think again. Soon they'll start popping up where you don't want them and then start to take over.