A warning about keeping blue clove polyps with SPS

[Oceanbear1]

So this has happened to me a few times and again just recently, so I decided to make a post about it. I'm sure all of you know that blue cloves and how they are pretty but can spread like weeds. I got them several years ago on my very first live rock, and they have never really gone away from tank to tank. Don't bother me very much, and generally my acros can push them back. But they have this tendency when a large number of them will die in a matter of hours (I call it going nuclear) and turn into this large mat of jelly. If any SPS are near by the jelly will very quickly cover the corals and suffocate it in a matter of minutes. When I blow away the jelly all I find is the white skeleton. I have lost several colonies to this occurrence, and have yet to find a way to stop it other than just trying to blow away the jelly just as quickly as possible.

This has been my experience, and if anyone has their own please feel free to share them

 

[ritter6788]

Same here. I used fluke tabs to rid the entire tank of cloves. There is a thread on it here and some in my build thread.

This is what they were doing to my sps,

 

[Mr. Microscope]

Yikes! Good to know. Thanks for sharing.

 

[sleeri]

Yeah, I've heard those things are terrible. I've got issues with GSP overgrowing other corals, but they don't present the die-off threat.