reducing clove polyps

[zerocool]

Hi,

Does anyone know how to reduce or eliminate clove polyps without manually scrubbing your rock. My clove polyps are starting to encroach and damage my SPS so it's time for cloves to go.

Thanks

[Lpabsolute]

Not sure.....But i know that scrubbing works

[jpeggerling]

Thats a very good question? Im going to be having the same problem pretty soon.

[sir_dudeguy]

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!

[StickFish]

Yea, Give me some :P

[roxy25]

i second that give me some loll I am looking for cloves all the time

[donta42]

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.