Eliminating Blue Clove Polyps with Fenbendazole

[eraser2001]

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?

When I dosed in my tank, I removed the skimmer's cup and ran the skimmer

 

[littlebigreef]

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?

Pretty certain you kill the skimmer, any reactors running gfo, carbon, ferric oxide etc.

 

[menglish]

I had my skimmer and UV and carbon off

 

[Aqua fire/medic]

Update time, it’s been a little over 24 hours since I dosed just a little over 3mg. Skimmer off, carbon off. Cloves are all closed up, that’s the good news. Bad news is so are most of my zoas and paly’s. Also my torch and wall hammer are pretty upset. Didn’t open at all today. Branching hammer, encrusting LPS, and all sps doing ok as well as dendros doing ok. Only thing that’s changed is the medication added. What gives? Should I abort mission, or hold fast for another 48 hrs?

 

[menglish]

I did not have any issues with my hammer, zoas, and paly at 4mg for 1 wk. I did not have any encrustingLPS in my tank so i cannot comment on that. I also did not have any torch and wall hammer in my tank.
keep a close eye on things. I think the original directions was only for 72 hrs. I let it go longer because that di dnot work for my cloves

 

[Mussin]

How does this affect anemones? I have rock flowers and rbta's...

 

[menglish]

It had no effect on my rbts (4) in the tank

 

[Peanut]

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

that's crazy....

do you have more than one strain in the tank or is it all the same?

 

[Peanut]

take your large snails out. My anemones did great. Aiptasia did great My small reproducing snails all did fine. I did have trouble adding large snails back into the system. I think it took me almost a month. It didn’t work the first time so I had to increase dose a little bit. I have tons of rock work absorbing the meds which I think was the reason first round didn’t work. Worked the second time with increased dose but couldn’t add snails till a lot later.

what did you increase your dosage to?

 

[Peanut]

Does anyone know how to measure the small doses. The package I have is 250mg. I'm going to isolate the rock with GSP on it and place it in a 5 gallon tank.

put the 250mg packet into a gallon of water. Then use 1oz of the mix per 2 gallons of tank water to be treated. (its actually 1oz per 1.95 gallons if you want to be exact) don't forget to include sump volume and wherever else water may be. This is assuming a dosage of 1mg per gallon of water to be treated.

 

[SeaDweller]

Well my GSP has been RIP'ed since then so thanks for the info guys and good luck with the blue clove polyps!

 

[menglish]

what did you increase your dosage to?

I only have one species in the tank. it is more purple that the blue variety.

so a week ago, i broke my tank down.
Here is a pic before:

the clove polyps were located on the left structure that has the anemone and monti cap. These suckers were coming back even after 1 week at 4mg/gal.
The other pic is after I took everything out. My main reason for breaking it down was to make room for those large SPS colonies in the middle of the tank. They were all the way at the top of the water line.
Since i was rescaping the tank. I took the opportunity to remove all the rocks that i knew had the clove polyps.
The tank is totally stressed now.
Hopefully, this will solve the clove polyp infestation and making more room for the sps to grow.
only time will tell.

 

[Peanut]

I only have one species in the tank. it is more purple that the blue variety.

so a week ago, i broke my tank down.
Here is a pic before:

the clove polyps were located on the left structure that has the anemone and monti cap. These suckers were coming back even after 1 week at 4mg/gal.
The other pic is after I took everything out. My main reason for breaking it down was to make room for those large SPS colonies in the middle of the tank. They were all the way at the top of the water line.
Since i was rescaping the tank. I took the opportunity to remove all the rocks that i knew had the clove polyps.
The tank is totally stressed now.
Hopefully, this will solve the clove polyp infestation and making more room for the sps to grow.
only time will tell.

When you treated, was the bcp completely uneffected or did it seem to “die” and then just come back?

Also, what’s your clean up crew like? I wonder if adding a bunch of crabs etc at treatment to pick at the stressed/dead remains would help with elimination and help prevent recovery.

 

[menglish]

They were definitely affected as early as 3 days into treatment. It looked completely gone. They just came back about 3-4 weeks later. I did not have much crabs. Just a sally light foot n a few hermits

 

[Monkeytank]

I had a couple of spots come back after I treated and I burned them away with a laser where I could get straight line of sight to them. Then I had a couple of patches sprout in the sandbed, and I used a fine net and scooped them out. It's been several weeks since I've seen any.

 

[jimo12]

Started yesterday for the 2 time with doubble dossage and black out for 2 days maybe 3 im not sure. Will see

 

[phil bevilacqua]

Will it harm lps? Hammer, torch, elegance?

 

[phil bevilacqua]

What brand did you guys get? I have a 220 to treat

 

[phil bevilacqua]

What brand and where? Ty

 

[littlebigreef]

Going back down this rabbit hole.

Dosed last fall and followed directions to a 't'. It appeared to kill the BCP with nominal effect on everything else. 8 months later they're back and in force.
Treated ~340gal of water with 500mg. So far so good. If this plays out like the first time I'd like to dose again in 4-6 weeks and deliver the coup de grace. Has anyone tried a proactive second round of dosing previously?