How do I prevent blue clove polyps

Bpb · 03/27/2013, 05:30 PM

Likely purchasing some killer acans and favias from a local who is selling his tank. They're at a great price only problem is every unoccupied inch of his tank is covered with blue clove polyps. Rock, sand, glass, hardware...everything. Really want the favias and acans but I don't want the blue cloves. Any ideas on how I can get the corals and not the blue cloves?

brandon429 · 03/27/2013, 05:35 PM

should be pretty simple on the corals. rock would be harder to prevent hitchhiking.

The cloves wont come in on the coral tissue, so that only leaves the lower skeletal portions to carry it in. There will be flesh there if the polyps are there, scrape it off. Preventing blue clove hitchhikers on non lr surfaces should be a cinch.

Bpb · 03/27/2013, 05:45 PM

Thanks for the reply. Seeing what plague proportions they can get to has made me paranoid. Read too many tank tear downs because of them. Worried some tiny spec will be hiding on a bit of skeleton that I don't see and a month later I'll have it popping up everywhere like aiptasia...only faster.

aandfsoccr04 · 03/27/2013, 06:15 PM

http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/sh...ighlight=fluke

03/27/2013, 05:30 PM	#1
Bpb Registered Member Join Date: Oct 2012 Location: Texas Posts: 3,148	How do I prevent blue clove polyps Likely purchasing some killer acans and favias from a local who is selling his tank. They're at a great price only problem is every unoccupied inch of his tank is covered with blue clove polyps. Rock, sand, glass, hardware...everything. Really want the favias and acans but I don't want the blue cloves. Any ideas on how I can get the corals and not the blue cloves?

03/27/2013, 06:15 PM	#4
aandfsoccr04 Registered Member Join Date: Apr 2011 Location: Virginia Beach, VA Posts: 3,561	http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/sh...ighlight=fluke __________________ 120 gallon mixed reef

03/27/2013, 05:35 PM	#2
brandon429 Registered Member. Join Date: Feb 2002 Posts: 3,460	should be pretty simple on the corals. rock would be harder to prevent hitchhiking. The cloves wont come in on the coral tissue, so that only leaves the lower skeletal portions to carry it in. There will be flesh there if the polyps are there, scrape it off. Preventing blue clove hitchhikers on non lr surfaces should be a cinch.

03/27/2013, 05:45 PM	#3
Bpb Registered Member Join Date: Oct 2012 Location: Texas Posts: 3,148	Thanks for the reply. Seeing what plague proportions they can get to has made me paranoid. Read too many tank tear downs because of them. Worried some tiny spec will be hiding on a bit of skeleton that I don't see and a month later I'll have it popping up everywhere like aiptasia...only faster.