Clove polyps ...... should i get rid of?

[Fiesty]

So i believe (shown in center of pic under sps) to have gained some clove polyps with live rock that came with used tank I recently

purchased. They look great now, and r the green variety. Ive never had in any tank of mine before but have heard horror stories of them taking over a tank. How worried should i be? Should i erradicate or leave? Suggestions welcome.

 

[Hemmdog]

So i believe (shown in center of pic under sps) to have gained some clove polyps with live rock that came with used tank I recently

purchased. They look great now, and r the green variety. Ive never had in any tank of mine before but have heard horror stories of them taking over a tank. How worried should i be? Should i erradicate or leave? Suggestions welcome.

You won’t be able to kill them all anyways, may as well make peace with them now. They look cool to me

 

[Hemmdog]

Nice setosa by the way !

 

[Fiesty]

Nice setosa by the way !

Thanks!

 

[Fiesty]

Any other thoughts or suggestions/ ideas / experiences about having these in the tank? Leave them or ? How much of a problem can they become, if any?

 

[VSVP bet]

I mean they are nasty, they can take over, if they are only on one rock, remove all corals you wish to keep and just leave the rock to dry, this will kill all the polyps, then you can scrub it off in saltwater and put it back in.

I have a 125 mixed reef, but if i had any type of invasive polyp, I would remove it asap, it only get worse as you let it sit. Of course if you dont mind them covering most available surface, leave them.

 

[serwobow]

They look a little different than the standard green star polyps (shorter tentacles). Maybe you have a new variety!
If I see the picture correctly, they encrust with a purple skin, which is the same a the green star polyps. They are relatively easy to remove by peeling them off, though there always remains a little skin in the nooks and crannies, and from that they will eventually grow back. kalk paste can also be used to kill them off totally. If you like them, then leave them, and prune as necessary. They will start to sting sps when they contact them with their polyps, but even that is not too bad. Your tank looks great!

 

[VSVP bet]

They look a little different than the standard green star polyps (shorter tentacles). Maybe you have a new variety!
If I see the picture correctly, they encrust with a purple skin, which is the same a the green star polyps. They are relatively easy to remove by peeling them off, though there always remains a little skin in the nooks and crannies, and from that they will eventually grow back. kalk paste can also be used to kill them off totally. If you like them, then leave them, and prune as necessary. They will start to sting sps when they contact them with their polyps, but even that is not too bad. Your tank looks great!

To continue with these ideas, if you want to keep them, isolate the rock on the sanded, this way they cant spread to neighboring rocks.

 

[Michael Naegeli]

Clove polyps absolutely destroyed one of my systems... took over EVERYTHING... I tried to treat w fenbendazole and crashed the whole tank w 5G’s in dead coral... I’d pull that rock, however they probably already made their way to other parts of tank. You just don’t know/see them yet... Brutal lil jerks

 

[Fiesty]

They look a little different than the standard green star polyps (shorter tentacles). Maybe you have a new variety!
If I see the picture correctly, they encrust with a purple skin, which is the same a the green star polyps. They are relatively easy to remove by peeling them off, though there always remains a little skin in the nooks and crannies, and from that they will eventually grow back. kalk paste can also be used to kill them off totally. If you like them, then leave them, and prune as necessary. They will start to sting sps when they contact them with their polyps, but even that is not too bad. Your tank looks great!

Yes they do encrust with a purple skin but they dont look like the regular green star polyps im use to seeing. Do clove polyps have the purple encrusting skin or r these actually a different kind of green star because of that?

 

[serwobow]

The blue clove polyps dont have an encrusting skin and are the worst invasive and difficult ones because they can rapidly spread throughout a tank by releasing larvae. That's not what you have though. Yours will probably just gradually grow bigger and bigger. VSVP's idea of trying to isolate them to a single rock will ensure no take over.