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

[Madreefer]

Originally Posted by Aquattro

Or a couple of well placed Fluke Tabs -lol

Haha well that too. If your lucky enough to find someone that is nice enough to part with some. Fluke tabs all the way. 4 days of tense watching the suckers die off is way better than years of stress. Most hardcore reefers have some kind of OCD. They can relate.

[albert_dao]

Said slug is awesome!!!!!!!!! Eats the tops off them like lollipops.

[Borderjumper]

Originally Posted by Madreefer

Haha well that too. If your lucky enough to find someone that is nice enough to part with some. Fluke tabs all the way. 4 days of tense watching the suckers die off is way better than years of stress. Most hardcore reefers have some kind of OCD. They can relate.

Are fluke tabs not being made anymore? I wonder if they eventually expire? I found a pack from my old freshwater daze!

[kien]

Originally Posted by Madreefer

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

Ouch.

[Madreefer]

Originally Posted by kien

Ouch.

Oh Kien everyone knows you got nice ones
Polyps that is.

[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.