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

[Aquattro]

Originally Posted by mohammadali

why :O ?

Because the cover everything, prevent new SPS from encrusting properly, trap tons of crap and you can't isolate them to a separate area of the tank. They spawn by releasing eggs and end up everywhere! I started with 2 polyps hitchhiking on a frag and ended up with millions of them. Getting rid of them is nearly impossible too. Chemicals, if you can find them, and apparently this slug above that are probably not just sitting at the LFS waiting to go home with you!

[Madreefer]

Originally Posted by Aquattro

Because the cover everything, prevent new SPS from encrusting properly, trap tons of crap and you can't isolate them to a separate area of the tank. They spawn by releasing eggs and end up everywhere! I started with 2 polyps hitchhiking on a frag and ended up with millions of them. Getting rid of them is nearly impossible too. Chemicals, if you can find them, and apparently this slug above that are probably not just sitting at the LFS waiting to go home with you!

I'll second that. They're evil and those that sell or give them away are just as bad. It takes years of frustration trying to get rid of them.

[Aquattro]

Originally Posted by Madreefer

It takes years of frustration trying to get rid of them.

Or a couple of well placed Fluke Tabs -lol

[kien]

Originally Posted by Madreefer

They're evil and those that sell or give them away are just as bad.

Ouch.

[mohammadali]

Originally Posted by Aquattro

Because the cover everything, prevent new SPS from encrusting properly, trap tons of crap and you can't isolate them to a separate area of the tank. They spawn by releasing eggs and end up everywhere! I started with 2 polyps hitchhiking on a frag and ended up with millions of them. Getting rid of them is nearly impossible too. Chemicals, if you can find them, and apparently this slug above that are probably not just sitting at the LFS waiting to go home with you!

the pink cucumber slug :O ? once i bought one from King ED last year their boss took off the pink cucumber and give it to me and when i bought it home it killed all my corals and fish so i dont mind to have purple clove tank :P

[albert_dao]

Originally Posted by mohammadali

the pink cucumber slug :O ? once i bought one from King ED last year their boss took off the pink cucumber and give it to me and when i bought it home it killed all my corals and fish so i dont mind to have purple clove tank :P

http://www.seaslugforum.net/find/marioliv - This is as close as I can find. Turns out there's the added bonus of eating encrusting gorgs too! <3

I have it with a host of different corals including Zoas, several LPS, a sunset monti, etc. It only comes out at night and I only see it munching on the patch of blue polyps. The thing is that it eats SLOOOWWWWWWWWW. It would be a simple matter of catching and removing it should it become a nuisance. The nice thing about slugs is that they tend to focus on a VERY narrow selection of dietary prey species (think monti eating nudies or aiptasia eating berghia) which allows us to employ them for very specific tasks.

[kien]

Originally Posted by mohammadali

why would u kill em ?
give me some free frags

You know what they say about one man's trash being another man's treasure I've been living with Blue Cloves for years. I love them. I have blue cloves butting up against soft corals (zoas, mushrooms, gsp, etc), as well as LPS and SPS and they don't sting any of my corals. I wonder if there are different types of blue/purple cloves and some sting while others don't?

Blue cloves at the base of most of my SPS (frags and colonies)..



Blue cloves up against zoas..



Blue cloves on clams:



This particular clam now has his shell COMPLETELY covered in cloves. Looks kinda cool.



I can understand that some people just simply find them unattractive (beauty is in the eye of the beholder), but never understood how blue cloves killed corals.

By the way, that reef central link doesn't work?