04svtfoci December 7, 2011 December 7, 2011 (edited) Hi All, I recently purchased a nice MH lighting set up from Steveoutlaw ( it works awesome), as a result i have some clove polyps that are spreading like wild fire in about 3 weeks to a month they have spread from a nickel sized colony on one of my rocks to covering about 3inches and are starting to smother out other items i have on the rock (zoas, mushroom, etc all low lying softies) and i dont want them to die. Is it safe to pull the rock out and scrape the cloves off the rock, or should i attempt to relocate all of these small colonys it is not a large rock maybe slightly larger than a baseball around and 4" long but it has alot of stuff on it from the previous owner. You can see the clove palys on the front middle rock, when i cleaned the tank that rock was moved a lil closer to the rock on the right which is the one where they are spreading so quickly. Most of the zoas on the front of the rock are closed in the pic as it was right after i turned on the lights, the pic was taken about 2 days before i put the new lighting system on the tank so it doesnt show the clove coverage but they have covered the whole front 1/3 of the rock on the right in a thick blanket. Edited December 7, 2011 by 04svtfoci
04svtfoci December 7, 2011 Author December 7, 2011 Is it feasible to put the rock with them in the corner away from everything else and be safe? Or would this require complete annihilation?
rocko918 December 7, 2011 December 7, 2011 nope, they will pop up every where. Hard to get rid of too!
dakotasreef December 7, 2011 December 7, 2011 Trash the rock! Unless you would like your entire tank covered. They don't seem to kill anything. But, they can slow the progression of corals. My 120 is covered in them.
RicSG December 7, 2011 December 7, 2011 hmmm same problem here too. Not happy this poyp killed my two ricordea's. So am i hearing correct isolating the rock will not work?
Prunfarm December 7, 2011 December 7, 2011 From my experience the isolated 'island' rock will not stop the spread.
RicSG December 7, 2011 December 7, 2011 okay I guess the rock is gone then. Man these clove look very pretty.
trockafella December 7, 2011 December 7, 2011 From my experience the isolated 'island' rock will not stop the spread. Agreed. I had them start popping up everywhere. I would trash the rock. You can attempt to frag the zoas/palys, but you will regret keeping that rock, and you can never remove or scrape them all off.
dakotasreef December 7, 2011 December 7, 2011 In the past when I would do a large water change, they would release these egg like sacks. Unfortunately, it was already too late for my tank. Dry it, burn it then bury it in the ground.
lowsingle December 7, 2011 December 7, 2011 You can put Joe's juice on them (or some equivalent) to try to control them.......I do this to control Zoanthids that grow too fast..... Darren
epleeds December 8, 2011 December 8, 2011 My filefish likes to eat them. what kind of file fish. it would eat like a king in my tank.
treesprite December 8, 2011 December 8, 2011 So they are not like star polyps or xenia that will stick to one rock if isolated? The blue cloves are so pretty.
surf&turf December 8, 2011 December 8, 2011 I've had pieces just let go from the colony and float to another part of the tank and start growing.
overklok December 8, 2011 December 8, 2011 Blue cloves grow everywhere, but are harmless to other corals. Everything can overgrow them.
04svtfoci December 8, 2011 Author December 8, 2011 I fraged my bigger rock on the right and they seem to be ok for now, and i trashed both rocks.
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