Eliminating Blue Clove Polyps with Fenbendazole

menglish · Jan 12, 2019

That is another way to get rid of them. Grow them on an island or on the back wall of the tank.

Aqua fire/medic · Jan 12, 2019

So what seems to be the consensus on the correct dosage. I’m attempting this in a nano reef this week...... approx 25g. Should I dose 1mg/gl, 2mg, 4mg? I’m dealing with the brown/purple variety of clove polyp.

menglish · Jan 12, 2019

Do they look like the type i posted?

menglish · Jan 12, 2019

menglish said:
Do they look like the type i posted?

MnFish1 · Jan 12, 2019

nkyreef said:
I chickened out. They were on top of a huge centerpiece rock. Since I'm upgrading to a larger tank I removed the rock and hammered away the top where the GSP had spread. I still may experiment with the chunk broken off because there were Zoas mixed in.

There is some satisfaction in hammering

Aqua fire/medic · Jan 13, 2019

menglish said:
Do they look like the type i posted?

They do indeed

menglish · Jan 13, 2019

They are very tough. Not sure what to tell you. Mine did not die with 4mg/gal for 1 week

They were severely stunned, but it looks like they are coming back

Aqua fire/medic · Jan 14, 2019

menglish said:
They are very tough. Not sure what to tell you. Mine did not die with 4mg/gal for 1 week
They were severely stunned, but it looks like they are coming back

Did you notice any negative effects to your livestock/corals at that dose?

menglish · Jan 14, 2019

The only negative was that my snails were toast. loss my Turbos, some hugh one.
sally lite foot crap, was unaffected, as were nassarius snails and conch.
No corals showed any effects, (zoas, shrooms, sps, lps).
GSP was killed at the lowest dose (1.5 mg/g).
no fish were affected.
The clove polyps were definitely knocked back, as i can see some starting to come back now

MadCityReefer · Jan 14, 2019

menglish said:
That is another way to get rid of them. Grow them on an island or on the back wall of the tank.

menglish said:
The only negative was that my snails were toast. loss my Turbos, some hugh one.
sally lite foot crap, was unaffected, as were nassarius snails and conch.
No corals showed any effects, (zoas, shrooms, sps, lps).
GSP was killed at the lowest dose (1.5 mg/g).
no fish were affected.
The clove polyps were definitely knocked back, as i can see some starting to come back now

I have the brown version of these polyps. Biggest nightmare trying to kill. I have tried multiple times to kill them off with Fenbendazole just to have them grow back

Antlrman · Jan 14, 2019

Give up. lol. I have tried for 12 months. 4 treatments . The hell with it. Some strains just dont respond. Ha

Aqua fire/medic · Jan 14, 2019

menglish said:
The only negative was that my snails were toast. loss my Turbos, some hugh one.
sally lite foot crap, was unaffected, as were nassarius snails and conch.
No corals showed any effects, (zoas, shrooms, sps, lps).
GSP was killed at the lowest dose (1.5 mg/g).
no fish were affected.
The clove polyps were definitely knocked back, as i can see some starting to come back now

How about starfish?

menglish · Jan 14, 2019

I am rescaping my tank soon. the plan is to remove most of the infected rocks.
I do not have any starfish in the tank

SeaDweller · Jan 16, 2019

Brittle stars, pods, cleaner shrimp, hermit crabs, other snails survived the treatment but my turbos slowed then died.

It does kill GSP at approx 1.5 mg/gallon. I should have went with 2 mg/gal just in case. But like clockwork this worked. Hermits were picking at the remnants within a few days. There's a patch of GSP that have remained closed up but aren't gone like the other areas that were wiped out.

I hope this stays gone for me.

littlebigreef · Jan 23, 2019

I dosed last fall and it worked for a time but they've since come back. I going to go 2mg per gal. Once I'm past the initial phase I'm thinking I might preemptively drop a second dose.

Aqua fire/medic · Jan 23, 2019

littlebigreef said:
I dosed last fall and it worked for a time but they've since come back. I going to go 2mg per gal. Once I'm past the initial phase I'm thinking I might preemptively drop a second dose.

Any livestock losses as of yet? I keep pushing this back because I’m terrified of nuking the tank.

menglish · Jan 23, 2019

I did not loose any livestock, even at 4mg/gal for 7 days.

littlebigreef · Jan 23, 2019

menglish said:
I did not loose any livestock, even at 4mg/gal for 7 days.

I think we were dosing around the same time. Did they come back and you dosed again at 4mg/gal or you knocked them out the first time?

@Aqua fire/medic I lost blue ridge coral (couldn't take it out), Kenya tree (which I was fine with) and my grandis palys took a hit. I removed gorgonians, other softies and all snails. Didn't have an issue reintroducing them after treatment.

menglish · Jan 24, 2019

They are coming back, even after 1 wk at 4mg/gal. Really sucks!!!!!!!
Next week I plan to rescape the tank (some are my sps are literally growing out the tank). I will make an effort to remove all the infected rocks. Would be tough as i have lots of corals on them. But since i have to rescape, I will make an effort to remove the infected rocks

Aqua fire/medic · Jan 28, 2019

Alright, just dosed a few hours ago and can see the cloves already closing up. Quick question for you guys. Did any of you run your skimmer during treatment?