Removing purple clove polyps

[Raising Reef.]

How are people manage this fast growing clove polyps in there reef tank ?

 

[NY_Caveman]

Seriously though, people recommend keeping them isolated on a rock island for example, but the best method to control them is to never add them to your tank.

 

[Raising Reef.]

Seriously though, people recommend keeping them isolated on a rock island for example, but the best method to control them is to never add them to your tank.

I hear you but they hitchhiked in to my tank on the base of a coral I added this wasn’t an intentional addition.

 

[NY_Caveman]

I hear you but they hitchhiked in to my tank on the base of a coral I added this wasn’t an intentional addition.

Right. Be tough to remove the rock too to deal with them out of the tank (but not impossible).

I might try Kalkwasser paste (in which I have little experience), but you have quite a few.

 

[Raising Reef.]

Right. Be tough to remove the rock too to deal with them out of the tank (but not impossible).

I might try Kalkwasser paste (in which I have little experience), but you have quite a few.

Thankfully I am setting up a replacement for this tank and will be starting over with the rock so I plan to remove each coral scrub them of and re mount so all is not lost I just thought there might be a success story out there that will help others experiencing the same.
I have used kalk paste on aptasia before and it dose work and I’m sure it would be affective on it but the amount of clove polyps I’m dealing with this isn’t a practical solution.

 

[norfolkgarden]

These?

https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/eliminating-blue-clove-polyps-with-fenbendazole.308994/

 

[Raising Reef.]

These?

https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/eliminating-blue-clove-polyps-with-fenbendazole.308994/

Thanks for sharing this interesting read I’m not prepared to pull the trigger on this with my tank but certainly an option for those at the point of despair who just want it gone.