Fluke tab alternative for killing blue clove polyps

[bmullikin1]

Blue cloves are taking over my tank, starting to lose zoa's, that being said someone found that fluke tabs had the side effect of killing these and gsp too. problem being they are no longer made. the ingredients are methl-5-benzol-benzimidazole-2-carbamate
dimethyl(2,2,2-trichlor-1-hydroxyethyl) phosphonate. Any idea as to what else might work or which part of the above kills the polyps.

 

[MaxDraco]

You can review my post about using Fenbendazole:

http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2272942

http://maxdraco.wordpress.com/2013/...ue-cloves-polyps-xenia-aiptasia-hydriods-etc/

Good Luck,
Max

 

[ap2honda]

I successfully deafeted blue clove polyps. I havnt done a wright up about it due to my before and after pictures being stuck in my unchargable iphone. Anyways what I did and it was a pain to do was to take away all its means to survive. First I removed all the coral I wanted to keep (broke off live rock or cut the rock with coral) and took it to my quarantine tank. Then in the display tank I did a hypsoalinty between 8 and 9,huge water changes since you will have a lot of die off from all the hitch hikers. And I kept the tank covered with a blanket so it would be in the dark. When blue clove patches would die off I would turkey baster, toothbrush, and powerhead the residue off the liverock I did this for 5 months. During this time period I would inspect the coral in the quarantine tank to make sure no blue cloves attached to the live rocks or coral ( ex: on candy cane skeleton, in betweem zoa garden rock). You have to be very agressive and be prepared to loose some coral. If I spotted blue cloves mixed in with coral I would either kill them with kalkwasser paste ( powder with a little water) and leave it on the coral. Or simply get rid of the coral by donating it to anyone who was willing to take a nice coral with blue snowflakes on it. ( of course I would warn them about the invasiveness of the blue cloves before) . when I returned all my coral back into the display tank I made a rule that the moment I saw a blue clove I would drop what im doing and immedieatly take out the coral or rock it hosted on, no matter on which rock or coral peice the blue clove was on. One day I noticed some had snuck into the displauy tank on a huge kryptonite candy cane colony. Running fear that It may spread I decided to completly remove the colony over killing the blue clove. I ran fear that the colony might have some I cant see or kill and create another outbreak. Long story short its been a year since then and the blue cloves never returned. And my friend recieved a kryptonite colony for free

 

[ap2honda]

I forgot to mention when I would kill the blue cloves with kalkwasser paste. I would afterwards scrub the area then apply super glue or many of the times and favorably I would put a kalkwasser paste coat after scrubbing and cleaning the old kalkwasser paste with die off and theb putty a huge patch over the new kalkwasser paste coat. To prevent light from touching the infected area in fear or some of it comming back. .... call it paranoia but hey it did the trick for me lol I am happily blue clove polyps/ snow flake polyps free . Also for the display tank before and during the hyposalinty I overdosed in kent m magnesium I forgot up to what level. But I had read some prior forums where kent m had helped some people with xenia outbreak. And had suggested to work on blue cloves... ( the magnesium alone didnt work,then I did all the steps above and alll that together worked. As for why the kent m for magnesium brand was due to people saying the impurities in it were the culprits to damage the xenia.
( on my phone sorry for the errors)