Blue cloves....look nice but.....

[wireefman]

they make a wonderful filler, however they are very hard to control and will never have a home in my tanks... they are a beautiful addition however

 

[ddmiller38]

Mine are on a small rock the size of a half baseball and haven't moved or spread as of yet but I have been keeping an eye on them.

 

[SushiGirl]

I want some of these so bad...perfect for my softie/LPS tank.

 

[chrismnash]

How you get the blue clove polyp they got to be cheap I just can't find them near me.

 

[cloak]

I would avoid these things like the plague. They are quite beautiful, don't get me wrong, but sooner or later they'll be popping up EVERYWHERE...

Green star polyps grow from that mat, which can be easily manipulated. Whereas these things just ride the current and start growing wherever they land. :thumbdown

 

[miserkris]

They'll destroy the natural beauty of the rocks. Choke zoa too.

 

[cloak]

+1.

I can't stand it when I have a nice little colony of zoanthids, and then five or six of these little things pop up in between them. :angryfire:

 

[GhostCon1]

Good luck at this point. Best advice is I hope you really really like it, if you don't......boil your rock.

Blue cloves a beautiful just like GSP but will grow over and suffocate other coral unless the other coral can defend itself (sweeper/chemical warfare). Best bet is to boil the rock you don't want blue cloves on and tone down the colony. If you periodically frag the blue cloves, they tend not to go sexual in your tank.

DO NOT EVER BOIL LIVE ROCK UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCE!! EVER! Read this!!

 

[enchelycore808]

Out of curiosity, how long did it take your tank to be taken over like that?

 

[chrismnash]

My wife likes them i m not really doing any zoanthids. I've got gsp, grape torch, Kenya tree, pulsing Xenia, green flower pot coral. I had some give me a floating piece that has 6polyps of blue clove and they are just bulbs they were growing in the sand bed and they haven't opened yet everything is grow like a weed except the flower pot coral he was half dead when I got it. It was butchered when they fragged it I'm hoping it'll cone back.

 

[miserkris]

I got my last box of fluke tabs avl. $15 shipped. Pm me.

 

[SushiGirl]

I just used some AiptasiaX on a saltwater dipped Qtip Saturday to kill blue cloves around some zoas I dont want to lose. Granted I could remove the small rock to do it, but you could target fairly well, I imagine. Worked well.

 

[pitmindi]

Do you have any to sell?

 

[Ohioreefer7]

Does anyone have pictures of them growing in the wild (ocean)? Do they over grow everything there or are they controlled by animals and other corals?

 

[enchelycore808]

Does anyone have pictures of them growing in the wild (ocean)? Do they over grow everything there or are they controlled by animals and other corals?

I don't have any pics but I never see them overgrowing everything like that. I only see them growing in small patches in tidepools down to about 10ft or so. Never really looked for or noticed them any deeper. Most patches I see are only a couple inches in diameter. I'll take a pic next time I go out.

 

[Daniel62]

5 yrs in my tank, they only seem to grow on 1 rock

 

[ozmosis7]

I just picked up a leather that a handful of these growing on the rock. Snipped it off and put it on a frag pedestal. PM if interested. Local only. I'm in SE PA.

 

[yzguy01250]

I want some of these so bad...perfect for my softie/LPS tank.

I fall into the "I Love Them" category. They really make my other corals POP! I got a chunk about the size of a quarter from my LFS store and they have exploded all over my tank! Check it out... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivTqgiVnYcM

 

[SushiGirl]

I fall into the "I Love Them" category. They really make my other corals POP! I got a chunk about the size of a quarter from my LFS store and they have exploded all over my tank! Check it out... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivTqgiVnYcM

I finally got some a few years ago, they do take over but it's all good. I moved the frag all over as they grew off it, plus they spawned the first year. Only drawback is they will overgrow zoas...have some I keep toothbrushing off the cloves to save lol.

Whole tank just now.

 

[yzguy01250]

I finally got some a few years ago, they do take over but it's all good. I moved the frag all over as they grew off it, plus they spawned the first year. Only drawback is they will overgrow zoas...have some I keep toothbrushing off the cloves to save lol.

Whole tank just now.
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Nice! My Zoas manage to fight them back somehow, but that definitely worried me at first. They are very crowded together for sure.