sick of blue

[LovenBama]

Any suggestions on how to get rid of blue cloves? Is there something that will eat them? I really do not want to remove the rock and scrub them. They are worse than star polyps if ya can believe that. :headwalls:

 

[xfactor1315]

Wow, now that's a bold statement lol

 

[EllieSuz]

I have some nasty polyps I want to get rid of, so I put my Torch near them. I think they'll be gone in no time, as they are shrinking a little every day. Point is, if you have a very aggressive coral, you can put it near the cloves and see if it does its thing.

 

[ScottB]

I used a frogspawn on some wayward xenia. Worked fine.

 

[NicoleC]

You can use a wood chisel to get the colony off, taking a bit of the rock with it. That way they don't come back. (Unless you miss some.)

You could also cover them with kalk paste, although for obvious reasons I'd do a small section at a time.

I have bad news for you, though. My very first coral over a dozen years ago was some pink clove polyps that arrived on some rock. Eventually I used the chisel technique to remove it "all" and sold it for frags. Fast-forward several years later and when I moved cross country there was a snowstorm and a delay, and my live rock FROZE. Guess what survived and started growing as soon as the "dead" rock was in a nice warm tank again?

Yep, I have pink cloves again.

 

[Tomoko Schum]

Take a look at this thread.

Fluke Tabs are getting hard to get hold of, but it does not have any expiration date printed and the old ones seem to work well.

 

[LovenBama]

Thanks for the link Tomoko At this time I do not want to add a chemical to the tank. I have battled massive amounts of hair algea from the time I got the set-up from Will til about 3 months ago and it was no easy job, was hoping to finally beable to add some corals but the GHA has been replaced w/the cloves not to mention I have an African Starfish in the tank that I have nowhere to put at this time.........guess just one more downside of buying a used system that already had issues