I just got some fluke tabs in the mail to eliminate my starting to grow blue clove polyps (BCP) and green star polyps (GSP). I plan to do the treatment this weekend and have a few questions and would like to here experiences of people who already did the treatment, I think in my intensive scouring of the interwebz I've only come across one bad experience using fluke tabs but would like to hear from some others. The main things I would like to learn from people are
Approximately how much did you use per net gallon of water? Do you think you could have used less or needed more?
How did you treat, rock soak or direct add?
What did you have die off besides GSP and BCP, fish, shrimp, crabs, coral, pods, worms, etc?
Did you pull anything out before or during treatment?
Did you continue to run skimmer, carbon, gfo, biopellets, etc?
How long was it before you could add stuff back?
Would you do anything differently?
How long before the BCP and GSP started to die off and how quickly did it start to die once it started?
Would you reccomend a fellow reefer use this method or is there any other methods you would reccomend?
Now I will go over how I plan to do it as of now and how these came into my system.
The gsp I intentionally added to my 29 gallon about six years ago and it got passed up as I upgraded into this tank and is getting out of control now. The BCP came in on a wild chalice colony, I thought I scraped them all off but apparently not and they quickly grew over and killed the coral they came in on and have been growing at an increasing rate over the last six months. I also have some what I believe are called blue daisy polyps that look a little different but I would not mind getting rid of. These came in on a maricultured lokani. I tried kalk paste, but there is so many every where that it is not feasible and by the time i covered everything over a series of weeks what I originally killed will have grown back. I've tried peeling off and a toothbrush, which doesn't work. The daisy polyps are to small to get off, the gsp just tears, and the blue cloves seem to like it.
I plan to soak a large rock covered in gsp in a five gallon bucket with tank water and a fluke tab dissolved in it with a powerhead and a heater for about an hour to three hours then put it back in the tank unrinsed and hope the fluke tabs kill the gsp and the residual fluke tabs kill the BCP and the neighboring rock with gsp. All of the gsp and bcp is pretty much on one side of my tank so the rock will be going right next to it. I am going to pull my nice green, red, and blue sympodium (I really like this coral and it isn't even close to as invasive as the other stuff), my pink feather duster, my gorgonian (might give this away), and a little bit of the gsp and hold them in a separate system for three days. I plan to run my skimmer throughout and run my carbon and gfo 24 hours after adding the soaked rock. I don't plan on pulling any hermits or snails at this point, most of my clean up crew poplulation is limpets, scutus, tiny little white snails, mini brittles, about ten hermits, amphipods, one huge brittle and small amount of bristle worms.
Below is some pics
Daisy polyps around lokani colony in the backgound
Gsp and daisy polyps
Approximately how much did you use per net gallon of water? Do you think you could have used less or needed more?
How did you treat, rock soak or direct add?
What did you have die off besides GSP and BCP, fish, shrimp, crabs, coral, pods, worms, etc?
Did you pull anything out before or during treatment?
Did you continue to run skimmer, carbon, gfo, biopellets, etc?
How long was it before you could add stuff back?
Would you do anything differently?
How long before the BCP and GSP started to die off and how quickly did it start to die once it started?
Would you reccomend a fellow reefer use this method or is there any other methods you would reccomend?
Now I will go over how I plan to do it as of now and how these came into my system.
The gsp I intentionally added to my 29 gallon about six years ago and it got passed up as I upgraded into this tank and is getting out of control now. The BCP came in on a wild chalice colony, I thought I scraped them all off but apparently not and they quickly grew over and killed the coral they came in on and have been growing at an increasing rate over the last six months. I also have some what I believe are called blue daisy polyps that look a little different but I would not mind getting rid of. These came in on a maricultured lokani. I tried kalk paste, but there is so many every where that it is not feasible and by the time i covered everything over a series of weeks what I originally killed will have grown back. I've tried peeling off and a toothbrush, which doesn't work. The daisy polyps are to small to get off, the gsp just tears, and the blue cloves seem to like it.
I plan to soak a large rock covered in gsp in a five gallon bucket with tank water and a fluke tab dissolved in it with a powerhead and a heater for about an hour to three hours then put it back in the tank unrinsed and hope the fluke tabs kill the gsp and the residual fluke tabs kill the BCP and the neighboring rock with gsp. All of the gsp and bcp is pretty much on one side of my tank so the rock will be going right next to it. I am going to pull my nice green, red, and blue sympodium (I really like this coral and it isn't even close to as invasive as the other stuff), my pink feather duster, my gorgonian (might give this away), and a little bit of the gsp and hold them in a separate system for three days. I plan to run my skimmer throughout and run my carbon and gfo 24 hours after adding the soaked rock. I don't plan on pulling any hermits or snails at this point, most of my clean up crew poplulation is limpets, scutus, tiny little white snails, mini brittles, about ten hermits, amphipods, one huge brittle and small amount of bristle worms.
Below is some pics
Daisy polyps around lokani colony in the backgound
Gsp and daisy polyps
