Clove Polyps

lastlight · #1 11-29-2010, 04:39 PM

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.

lorenz0 · #2 11-29-2010, 04:42 PM

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Originally Posted by lastlight

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

skabooya · #3 11-29-2010, 04:48 PM

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

ScubaSteve · #4 11-29-2010, 05:06 PM

Stick a hydnophora next to them. It'll kick their ass in no time :P

Madreefer · #5 11-29-2010, 05:10 PM

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Originally Posted by lastlight

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.

Well they seem to overtake my zoas. The SPS seem to to grow over top of them rather than encrust more to the rock. As in there is a small space between the coral and the rocks. It grows on the underside of my monti plate and starting to grow on my digitata's.

Borderjumper · #6 11-29-2010, 06:15 PM

I have some encroaching on some zoas too.. I coat the cloves with AiptasiaX and let it sit for an hour or so with the pumps off.. Works for me and so far hasn't affected the zoas.

trilinearmipmap · #7 11-29-2010, 07:40 PM

Fluke Tabs, 1 tablet per 100 gallons of water.

Wipes out all softies, anthelia, clove polyps, green star polyps.

Does not harm anemones, LPS, SPS, or fish. Did not harm my hermit crabs or snails. Supposed to be toxic for shrimp though.

Madreefer · #8 11-29-2010, 08:13 PM

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Originally Posted by trilinearmipmap

Fluke Tabs, 1 tablet per 100 gallons of water.

Wipes out all softies, anthelia, clove polyps, green star polyps.

Does not harm anemones, LPS, SPS, or fish. Did not harm my hermit crabs or snails. Supposed to be toxic for shrimp though.

Good to know. Damn I got 9 shrimp right now.

Nebthet · #9 11-29-2010, 08:26 PM

I am really suprised the kalk paste didn't work on the clove polyps. A good concentration of that stuff will usually wipe stuff like that out. How long did you leave it on the polyps and were your powerheads turned off?
If you rim it correctly you shouldn't have any problems with it harming your other stuff.
It sucks you are having this problem with this coral. It looks really nice.

Madreefer · #10 11-29-2010, 09:14 PM

I don't take the kalk paste off actually. Yes the PH's are off too. It's not just that coral that it's happening to. It's all of them. That was just a tiny example. There's some days I just wanna take the tank down and cook the rocks. But my system is about 9 years old and I have put too much work in to itr to start over. Why is there no smilies for pulling your hair out?