reducing clove polyps
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Lpabsolute
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Not sure.....But i know that scrubbing works 
jpeggerling
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Thats a very good question? Im going to be having the same problem pretty soon.
sir_dudeguy
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Yup...i got them too lol. Olive green ones, and they grow fast. I seriously doubt you'd find anything that would kill them specifically.
I wonder though...would it be possible to treat them like aptasia??? Like i've injected aptasias with vinegar/hot water and they just melt away and die...would it work for these??? I say someone should try!
I wonder though...would it be possible to treat them like aptasia??? Like i've injected aptasias with vinegar/hot water and they just melt away and die...would it work for these??? I say someone should try!
If you have the time. ( and the patience ) Take tweezers and rip them off the rock that they're on . As far down the base as you can go. Just pluck pluck pluck and fill a little bowl up with them. Then afterwards, take all those little single pluckings of cloves and super glue them down in little clusters on rubble rock. I tried to find rubble rocks that had crevices or little crater like depressions and and filled the spaces with super glue. Then using the tweezers i just places their freshly ripped bases into the glue in groups of 10-20. In 2 days all the cloves fully reopened ***and in one week *EACH clove polyp sprouted 1-4 NEW tracer tentacles ! i was seriously shocked by how fast the recover and time was. It seemed that this pruning activity promoted growth in the plucked frags. Its a great way to trim back and not have to kill your corals out. It also gives you frags to trade/sell and i think itll leave less of a mess. I know it seems like a little work but hey, We "gardeners" sometimes gotta get down with it you know hahah.
