Fluke Tabs Solved My Blue Clove Polyp Problem!

I'm on Day 2 of the process loss both Shrimp, so definitely take any shrimp out if you have them. None of the other corals seem effected yet. Thought my RBTA was history but it seems to be fine today. Blue Cloves have wilted but not completely gone yet. Water is cloudy so probably have like two more days before completely dead. I will turn skimmer and carbon back on in 2 days.
 
I started my treatment yesterday with 1/2 a tablet with a total water volume of 43gal.
After 24hrs the biggest patches have rescinded about 60% and the very small patches are about 80% gone. Ill post up some before/after pics this weekend.
 
Can someone PM me that has some Fluke Tabs available? Please help, getting taken over by BCP. Will gladly pay to get a few tabs.
 
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sunilp said:
does anyone have any better results with these tabs?
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Everyone that has treated them that has posted about it in this thread has had success. My Blue Clove Polyps were all killed using Fluke Tabs 8 months ago and they have not returned.
 
I am going to add the tabs after the holidays. I would not recommend scrubbing the polyps off rocks in the tank. They multiplied 10 fold over night when I did this.
 
AcroporAddict said:
Everyone that has treated them that has posted about it in this thread has had success. My Blue Clove Polyps were all killed using Fluke Tabs 8 months ago and they have not returned.
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Have you adde your leathers back? Is it safe to add anything you want or will there be trace amounts in your tank?
 
sunilp said:
Have you adde your leathers back? Is it safe to add anything you want or will there be trace amounts in your tank?
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I keep an all SPS tank. I have no leathers in the tank to start with. I did prior to treatment, but have since upgraded to a 465 tank, including all the treated rock, and that one is Bare bottom and all SPS, which are not affected by treatment using fluke Tabs. I got rid of my leather corals. But post treatment, any LPS or SPS can be put back into the tank, as far as I know.

The notion that you cannot add leathers any more is something I passed on from the initial information I gathered on using Fluke Tabs. What I have told people that have PM'd me about using Fluke Tabs is that after treatment and removal of the medication from the water column, they try a small piece of leather as a test coral to see how it does back in the water post treatment.

If you want to keep corals related to or similar to Blue Clove Polyps such as other types of anthelia, clavularia, and xenia, feather dusters, and maybe leathers in your tank, then using Fluke Tabs may not be for you. For you, a complete tank tear down might be in order. Then you can kill the stuff using bleach, hydrogen peroxide, or whatever, and not lose the ability to put anything else you want back in the tank because you'd have no residual chemicals to worry about.

Your husbandry goals may be inconsistent with Fluke Tab use, so the decision to use them or not should be made carefully by anyone.
 
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TampaSnooker said:
What is the effect on LPS corals? I have some ginormous wall hammers and frogspawns. Has anyone noticed issues with them when treating with fluke tabs?
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I had a 30 gallon frag tank in the same system as my 300 when I treated, and I saw no effect on RBTAs, chalices (LPS), zoas or meat corals (LPS). No hammers or frogspawns, but I don't think it would hurt them either.

Please don't take this as fact, but it seems that one defining characteristic regarding negative effects of Fluke Tabs on corals is whether the coral secretes a calcareous skeleton or not, outside of zoanthids/palys/anemones not being affected either. Calcium carbonate skeleton secreting corals don't seem to be affected by Fluke Tabs.

Just from my own anecdotal experience, and that of others I know have used them:

Fluke Tabs kill: anthelia, xenia, clavularia, feather dusters, leathers.

Fluke Tabs may possibly kill: snails or shrimp.

No effects: SPS, LPS, Anemones, zoas, palys, fish.

Long term issues after treatment: You may not be able to keep anthelia, xenia, or clavularia for years after treatment due to residual chemicals on the treated live rock. This may or may not include leather corals, but that has yet to be determined.
 
Anyone have any experience with the use of fluke tabs and possible effects on gorgonians? I have a 29g gorgonian-dominated tank with 5 flower nems and several patches of anthelia that hitched a ride on the live rock.

I would love to eliminate the anthelia, but don't want to harm any of my gorgonians. I read a case on another forum where the aquarist did have gorgonians die, but have not found any other cases, and it has not been mentioned here...
 
zooman72 said:
Anyone have any experience with the use of fluke tabs and possible effects on gorgonians? I have a 29g gorgonian-dominated tank with 5 flower nems and several patches of anthelia that hitched a ride on the live rock.

I would love to eliminate the anthelia, but don't want to harm any of my gorgonians. I read a case on another forum where the aquarist did have gorgonians die, but have not found any other cases, and it has not been mentioned here...
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Thank you for your post. I don't have any gorgonians myself, but hopefully someone that has treated with Fluke Tabs with gorgonians in the tank will respond.
 
Just reread the thread to make sure this hasn't been covered.
Yumas and FL rics are supposed to be unaffected as well as 'nems. How about Discosoma and Rhodactis? I would assume that they would be OK but did anyone keep these species during treatment? Rhodactis can be finnicky.
 
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