Lifegard 10 gal AIO Nano Reef

[farfromsea]

Sorry about the troubles as well. Just go slow bringing the salinity back up.

Whoops I probably made it worse for the fish by rushing it. My cardinalfish is still okay at least. The starfish didn't mind one bit...

Not sure if I'm super keen on this Lifegard tank since the pump can't really be upgraded!

 

[farfromsea]

Tank update. I bought cloves at a show. The show wasn't very good for vendors basically only 20 customers... so when a seller cut me a deal on the cloves I thought nothing of it. The cloves took over the entire tank. Smothered my montipora digitalis...complete eyesore.

No idea how to remove them. Only a few sprigs are rainbow. The rainbow cloves have thicker stalks.

I hate it. Ruined my tank and any desire to buy coral and there isn't space for coral anyways?

The ugly--under whites and blues:

A close up of my nemesis:

 

[griss]

I personally prefer the white look to what I consider the overly blue look.

 

[Reefing102]

Yes cloves can be quite invasive. I don’t know about brown cloves but many have reported luck with treating a tank with Fenbendazole for blue clove polyps - Fenbendazole – eliminate invasive soft corals (Blue Cloves Polyps, Xenia, Aiptasia, Hydriods, etc.)

That said, given the size of your tank, the amount of die off from treatment would quite likely crash the system, so I would personally just remove what I wanted to keep from the rocks (nems, zoas, etc) either by straight removal or by chipping pieces of the rocks off, and toss the old rock and start with new. I know not likely what you wanted to hear but just a thought.

 

[farfromsea]

Yes cloves can be quite invasive. I don’t know about brown cloves but many have reported luck with treating a tank with Fenbendazole for blue clove polyps - Fenbendazole – eliminate invasive soft corals (Blue Cloves Polyps, Xenia, Aiptasia, Hydriods, etc.)

That said, given the size of your tank, the amount of die off from treatment would quite likely crash the system, so I would personally just remove what I wanted to keep from the rocks (nems, zoas, etc) either by straight removal or by chipping pieces of the rocks off, and toss the old rock and start with new. I know not likely what you wanted to hear but just a thought.

Yes I am thinking the same thing. I avoided this whole situation once the cloves took over. And they were green to start but maybe there was a brown one hidden on the frag. The vendor was very blitzed on beer maybe not the most reputable seller

I'm disappointed because it is my KP aquatics live rock but I will just have to start anew and order more...

 

[farfromsea]

I personally prefer the white look to what I consider the overly blue look.

Haha it is way more blue than I normally run but it was the only way to showcase that actual non-cloves exist

 

[farfromsea]

Does anyone recommend how to remove my rocks but keep my starfish and small shrimp etc that is hiding in the rock before I remove it? I want to keep my hitchhikers!

 

[Reefing102]

From KP -

(Optional Step) Undesired critters (we really don’t like the word unwanted pests as every creature has a purpose in life) can be removed by submerging the live rock into a salt mix of 1.035 to 1.040 (Specific gravity) for one minute, it should do the trick for mantis shrimp, crabs and worms to vacate the rock. Please turn the live rock in the bucket for the salty saltwater to penetrate everywhere in the live rock. Afterwards you can evaluate which crabs to keep and which ones to permanently remove. You can repeat this step 2 to 3 times during the curing process (before, during and after). It will help with keeping the unwanted critters under control obviously it doesn’t guarantee 100% success but it should get very close to it.

I’ve never used this but I’ve heard some people using it.

Also, could try the bottle trap trick relatively close to their home?