How to Kill Purple Clove Polyps DIE! DIE! DIE! :) [Archive]

Norstar

07-25-2010, 11:10 PM

I am once again having an invasion of Purple Clove Polyps. If you don't keep them under control, they will completely take over everything your tank!! (Newbies, be forwarned!!!)

Under complete desperation, I have been applying Tailored Aquatics Aiptasia Destroyer. It seems to be working. Mind you, it has only been two days, but they don't seen to be surviving the treatment.

Has any one else ever tried this with any success?

Thanks in advance!

http://www.aquacon.com/images/LavenderClovePolyp.jpg

Madreefer

07-25-2010, 11:27 PM

I've been having the same battle. I coat them with a thick kalk paste and it kills them. They spread too fast and I think the only way to rid them is to coat all of them at the same time. But that would be detrimental to your tank. My SPS does grow over them though. What really sucks is the ones I have are brown. Good luck!

Aquattro

07-26-2010, 12:08 AM

I had lots, but they went away on their own. I don't think there is a trace of them left.

Norstar

07-26-2010, 12:09 AM

"went away on their own" - I wish!! :biggrin: Mine never go away, and only come back stronger than ever.

Frenchie2

07-26-2010, 01:50 AM

I had them in my tank and one day when me sea hare died, I put a bag of carbon in the sump and the cloves mysteriously started to disappear. I went to J & L and asked Renee about that and she told me the carbon does that to blue/purple cloves. Give it a shot. Did not bother any of my other corals.

daniella3d

07-26-2010, 02:08 AM

What are your parameters? because mine seem to shrivel and disapear, or at least it's not spreading and not growing at all.

Invasion? after 6 months of having it in my tank, it has not grown one bit.

It did spwan and produced eggs a few times and I can see little polyps here and there on the liverock but they stay tiny and they don't even produce more polyp.

what's your secret? because I wish I had your problem. I want them to spread to a full rock but can't get them to grow.

What's the tric?

I wish I could tell my trick for it to shrivel and not spread..I just don't know why.

I am once again having an invasion of Purple Clove Polyps. If you don't keep them under control, they will completely take over everything your tank!! (Newbies, be forwarned!!!)

Under complete desperation, I have been applying Tailored Aquatics Aiptasia Destroyer. It seems to be working. Mind you, it has only been two days, but they don't seen to be surviving the treatment.

Has any one else ever tried this with any success?

Thanks in advance!

http://www.aquacon.com/images/LavenderClovePolyp.jpg

daniella3d

07-26-2010, 02:11 AM

Ok that could be it! I do use carbon on regular basis and change every 2 to 3 weeks and I cannot grow clove polyp at all.

Must be related. Same here, the carbon does not bother any of my coral and everything grow like weeds, just not the clove polyp. Glove polyps as well shrink to nothing with time and disapear. I had no idea that carbon could cause that.

I had them in my tank and one day when me sea hare died, I put a bag of carbon in the sump and the cloves mysteriously started to disappear. I went to J & L and asked Renee about that and she told me the carbon does that to blue/purple cloves. Give it a shot. Did not bother any of my other corals.

trilinearmipmap

07-26-2010, 02:31 AM

OK here is how to quickly and easily eradicate Purple Clove Polyps from your tank. Also it will eradicate Green Star Polyps, Anthelia, hydroids, and Xenia.

Other who have tested it have found it was harmless to all livestock (corals, mushrooms, fish, anemones, crabs, snails) in their tanks except it killed shrimp and some soft corals. In my tank various SPS, LPS, BTA's, mushrooms, snails and fish were not affected. I had no shrimp in the tank.

Before people complain about using chemicals in the tank I agree chemicals should be avoided, however in my case I had an Anthelia infestation that was refractory to all measures including local eradication, Sonic scrubber and anything else I tried despite zero phosphates and nitrates measured in the tank.

You can use AP fluke tabs. First I manually removed all the Xenia, Green Star Polyps and Anthelia that I could. Then I dissolved 1/2 a fluke tab in water and added it to my 120 gallon tank. Within a week all the Anthelia, GSP and Clove Polyps were gone and the hydroids (which had been a minor problem) disappeared as well. There were no signs at all of stress to the fish or corals. None of the pest species have come back except for the hydroids which have recurred in small numbers.

Before I did the 1/2 fluke tab treatment I first tried one one hundredth of a fluke tab (no effect) and then one tenth of a fluke tab (no effect). Others have reported that even a trace amount of a fluke tab (such as dipping a coral in fluke tab solution then returning the coral to the display tank without rinsing it off) would work. I didn't find that trace amounts of fluke tab worked.

I would recommend local eradication measures, kalk, one of the Aiptasia treatments if it works, or localized blackout to cover the polyps from the light before going with chemical warfare. But if nothing else works, the Fluke Tabs seem quite effective and safe.

vaporize

07-26-2010, 03:28 AM

Try a butterfly :) or copperband might eat them

bignose

07-26-2010, 03:45 AM

Whats a fluke tab?

Norstar

07-26-2010, 03:49 AM

It's a pill for treating fresh water fish.

I would caution people that this treatment is very risky. I wouldn't recommend it unless you are very sure of what you are doing. :wink:

trilinearmipmap

07-26-2010, 04:11 AM

My Copperband never touched the Clove Polyps.

Actually I was very afraid to try the Fluke Tab treatment. Instict tells us not to medicate our reefs. I read a few threads about it on Reef Central and PM'ed a couple of people and that reassured me. Again, I don't recommend medicating a reef if you have other options but this worked for me and others without any problems.

Snappy

07-26-2010, 05:40 AM

My Asfer & Majestic angels devoured all the clove polyps I had.

edikpok

07-26-2010, 03:08 PM

I have a bubble coral on one side of my clove coral and a brain on the other side. These corals seem to kill the clove polyps as soon as they start spreading. Mind you, brain coral tentacles are very dangerous to many other corals (if they touch)..

intarsiabox

07-27-2010, 12:31 AM

I run carbon and my blue clove polyps do fine. In the last year they have only expanded maybe 2" of territory but don't appear to harm anything. My SPS just grows right over top of them and they mix in with some of my zoanthids with no problems to either party. At the current rate of growth it'll be about another 10 years before I have a plague. I kind of like the look of them myself but I feel your pain as my GSP is another story.:sad:

Norstar

07-27-2010, 04:14 AM

My problem was that they were taking everything over. In fact, I just removed some off one of my softies. They were growing right on the tissue. It was only a matter of time before they started growing over some of my favourite corals.

I think I will have to continue with the Aiptasia remover :cry:

dsaundry

07-27-2010, 04:48 PM

I like them, but I haven't had great success with them in my tank, I know they can be invasive but I used to just peel them away areas I didnt want them in. If you want to unload some, I will take them...next time I get into the Surrey/White Rock area..
:biggrin:

Amante

07-27-2010, 06:22 PM

I know a very good way of getting rid of it. Give them to me. hehehehe

I am once again having an invasion of Purple Clove Polyps. If you don't keep them under control, they will completely take over everything your tank!! (Newbies, be forwarned!!!)

Under complete desperation, I have been applying Tailored Aquatics Aiptasia Destroyer. It seems to be working. Mind you, it has only been two days, but they don't seen to be surviving the treatment.

Has any one else ever tried this with any success?

Thanks in advance!

http://www.aquacon.com/images/LavenderClovePolyp.jpg

Norstar

07-28-2010, 01:33 AM

Hey All!

I brought most of it to Ocean Aquatics in Delta. They have lots. Not sure what they are asking for it, but give them a call.

Norstar

06-14-2012, 04:05 AM

Hydrogen Peroxide!!! I carefully poured it on the clove polyps, gave them a bit of a scrub with a toothbrush, and voila! so far, so good!

mohammadali

06-14-2012, 08:48 AM

dont kill em give me some of it ;)

2bafish

06-14-2012, 04:47 PM

Il take a bunch from you.

Norstar

06-15-2012, 12:02 AM

Hey everybody. I've had lots of inquiries regarding the purple clove polyps. Oddly enough, I feel like I have some type of moral responsibility not to sell them to anyone....

Just kidding! There were only a few left over. I thought I had eradicated my tank of them. But as usual, they keep popping up

Regretfully, if I do find more, they will be "terminated"

Aquattro

06-15-2012, 12:20 AM

I feel like I have some type of moral responsibility not to sell them to anyone....

I agree, I wouldn't give these to anyone unless I really disliked them.

RuGlu6

06-15-2012, 05:02 AM

dont kill em give me some of it ;)

Hey Mohammadali if you end up getting some for yourself, pls get some for me, i will pay you $5 for a frag.
Thx

MMAX

06-15-2012, 01:24 PM

Aquattro

06-15-2012, 01:59 PM

mohammadali

06-15-2012, 06:16 PM

hey be generous give us this gift :D
anything i bought they dont grow anywhere else in my 29biocube

RuGlu6

06-15-2012, 06:28 PM

The people asking for these damn things may really be asking for it. I don't think they know what they are getting into. Do your research people. If you think you can contain them on a single piece of rock think again. Soon they'll start popping up where you don't want them and then start to take over.

I already have one kind in my tank and would like to have another whats wrong with that?

Where is that line in the sand that we draw between a nice healthy coral that is thriving and it being a pest?

We complain about something is Not growing and then we turn around and complain about something growing too fast....
If these are showing nice color i want them, i just don't have time to drive to OA.
My first reef tank was set up 14 years ago, and few after that, i think i can decide what i want in my tank :smile:
BTW i used to have a lava sea urchin that eliminated cloves with lightning speed that is why i sold it, because i like cloves!

If anyone from Coquitlam area or so will be going to get some please bring some for me as well
thx.

Aquattro

06-15-2012, 07:09 PM

Where is that line in the sand that we draw between a nice healthy coral that is thriving and it being a pest?

To me, that line is when something's growth is uncontrollable. This stuff has spread to every rock in a 180 in a few months. The line got crossed..:razz:

You can't peel chucks off like GSP, or other polyp formations. They're individual little pests all over everything.

RuGlu6

06-15-2012, 11:07 PM

To me, that line is when something's growth is uncontrollable. This stuff has spread to every rock in a 180 in a few months. The line got crossed..:razz:

You can't peel chucks off like GSP, or other polyp formations. They're individual little pests all over everything.

I agree this could be upsetting.

Nevertheless people would love apteisia for example, and pay $ for it, if it would be bright green or red, don't you agree? They would call it lovely easy to keep soft coral. I think some lfs are trying to do just that.

My point is that it is individual's choice. Free will.

At any rate it does Not look like i am going to get any lovely, easy to keep, incrusting, self propagating, nicely colored purple clove polyps :lol:

Aquattro

06-16-2012, 12:47 AM

At any rate it does Not look like i am going to get any lovely, easy to keep, incrusting, self propagating, nicely colored purple clove polyps :lol:

Unfortunately it doesn't come off in any form that is salvageable, so I couldn't give you any even if you came by. Although it is easy enough to grow, just put a frag plug near it, and it will grow onto it. Maybe I'll grow out a couple for crazy people :)

don.ald

06-16-2012, 01:06 AM

I agree this could be upsetting.

Nevertheless people would love apteisia for example, and pay $ for it, if it would be bright green or red, don't you agree? They would call it lovely easy to keep soft coral. I think some lfs are trying to do just that.

My point is that it is individual's choice. Free will.

At any rate it does Not look like i am going to get any lovely, easy to keep, incrusting, self propagating, nicely colored purple clove polyps :lol:

Years ago I would buy this stuff and it would never grow...disappeared never to be seen again. Today, I have a 10" slab covering part of my bare bottom tank...it's beautiful. Really, it is amazing...colour and shape. Is it spreading?....yeah. But frag it? Most impossible. Don't know where it even came from. Just showed up and grew.
Thinking back...I did get a couple of freebie frags from brad?:question::wink:

daniella3d

06-16-2012, 12:02 PM

Praziquantal? I noticed that when I used Prazipro in my tank the xenia did not like at all. Also all my xenias melted with the copper poisoning but all the star polyps were just fine. Prazi did not seem to affect star polyps either.

Whats a fluke tab?

MMAX

06-16-2012, 04:23 PM

I'm seriously thinking about trying an angel to see if it eats it. Only problem is I don't want him eating anything else. I have a tank full of sps along with a Cook Island maxima that it can't touch......dilemmas.

Aquattro

06-16-2012, 04:26 PM

MaxDraco

03-15-2013, 07:07 PM

You can review my post about using Fenbendazole:

Reef Central Online Community (http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2272942)

Fenbendazole – eliminate invasive soft corals (Blue Cloves Polyps, Xenia, Aiptasia, Hydriods, etc.) | Max Draco (http://maxdraco.wordpress.com/2013/03/14/fenbendazole-eliminate-invasive-soft-corals-blue-cloves-polyps-xenia-aiptasia-hydriods-etc/)

Good Luck,
Max

Aquattro

03-15-2013, 07:41 PM

Thanks Max, I'll give those a read.

mohammadali

03-15-2013, 08:47 PM

why would u kill em ?
give me some free frags :D

Aquattro

03-15-2013, 08:57 PM

why would u kill em ?
give me some free frags :D

I would have to really dislike someone to give them any of these! :razz:

MaxDraco

03-15-2013, 09:04 PM

DITTO !

I would have to really dislike someone to give them any of these! :razz:

Granted they add a lot of color to a tank (especially after 6 months), but after 12 months - you realize they're everywhere, in the sand, pumps, even the sump!

They're impossible to remove (tiny and everywhere). I've also read reports that once they reach plague proportions - they can start to kill off SPS.

Max.

kien

03-15-2013, 09:11 PM

why would u kill em ?
give me some free frags :D

You know what they say about one man's trash being another man's treasure :lol: I've been living with Blue Cloves for years. I love them. I have blue cloves butting up against soft corals (zoas, mushrooms, gsp, etc), as well as LPS and SPS and they don't sting any of my corals. I wonder if there are different types of blue/purple cloves and some sting while others don't?

Blue cloves at the base of most of my SPS (frags and colonies)..

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8352/8406760203_0f9bc8e618_z.jpg
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8345/8202576648_b07da3be45_z.jpg
Blue cloves up against zoas..

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8327/8407854564_2fd8b6e4a3_z.jpg

Blue cloves on clams:

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8067/8202576388_89a8f792aa_z.jpg

This particular clam now has his shell COMPLETELY covered in cloves. Looks kinda cool. :lol:

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8342/8202574402_8548dfc8a9_z.jpg

I can understand that some people just simply find them unattractive (beauty is in the eye of the beholder), but never understood how blue cloves killed corals.

By the way, that reef central link doesn't work?

kien

03-15-2013, 09:13 PM

Granted they add a lot of color to a tank (especially after 6 months), but after 12 months - you realize they're everywhere, in the sand, pumps, even the sump!

Sumps and pumps ? wow, there really must be different types of blue cloves. I've lived with mine for 3 years now and have never seen a single clove in my sump, overflow box, or powerheads or pump. And, I often take a toothbrush to a patch of cloves if i want to clear a patch to mount new frags. I find them fragile this way.

Madreefer

03-15-2013, 09:22 PM

kien

03-15-2013, 09:23 PM

The link worked good for me. Yea Kien there must be different kinds. The clove polyps in my tank would take over SPS and pretty much any zoa that went in to my tank. Mine were a more purple brownish, not nice like yours.

Ya, mine are definitely more blue than purple so maybe they are two different cloves. I always assumed that when people talked about blue/purple cloves that they were talking about the same species and that blue/purple was interchangeable.

kien

03-15-2013, 09:30 PM

In fact, my cloves definitely don't look like these. These ones seem to extend up a bit where as mine have virtually no extension to their polyps.

Original poster's pic..

http://www.aquacon.com/images/LavenderClovePolyp.jpg

My cloves are much more delicate than these appear to be. I can easily smother my cloves by just running my fingers across them and they will die and not come back (until new ones regrow that area).

lastlight

03-15-2013, 09:35 PM

ok enough. i'm starting to miss mine (but only a little).

kien

03-15-2013, 09:38 PM

ok enough. i'm starting to miss mine (but only a little).

i've had people come by recently and ask me for frags of my cloves. I have to always ask them if they are sure they want them :lol:

lastlight

03-15-2013, 09:39 PM

they're very pretty. the real question is do you want them nowhere or everywhere lol.

marie

03-15-2013, 10:23 PM

I like my blue cloves......it would be nice if they didn't have a secret agenda to take over the world but you have to admire their persistence :lol:

pinkreef

03-15-2013, 11:01 PM

has anyone tried a choc chip seastar to get rid of them?
they like to eat my zenia

MaxDraco

03-15-2013, 11:29 PM

The biggest issue I have with these polyps is that they trap tons of detris, crowd out zoas, prevent SPS from encrusting, etc...

I had the really nice blue ones too, and when you cleared a spot, 10 more would spring up somewhere else - plus eventually they'd grow back.

Max.

Aquattro

03-15-2013, 11:31 PM

The biggest issue I have with these polyps is that they trap tons of detris,..., prevent SPS from encrusting

2 exact reasons they had to go in my tank.

Aquattro

03-15-2013, 11:31 PM

has anyone tried a choc chip seastar to get rid of them?
they like to eat my zenia

Spencer tried, not much luck I recall.

mohammadali

03-16-2013, 03:24 AM

I would have to really dislike someone to give them any of these! :razz:

why :O ?

spit.fire

03-16-2013, 05:53 PM

Apparently there's a slug that eats them

http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a171/tyty_220/AD54BFA0-3154-4961-ACBF-B059A77A5D63-262-000000BB4E0D96CC_zps6191c6bf.jpg

Aquattro

03-16-2013, 06:17 PM

why :O ?

Because the cover everything, prevent new SPS from encrusting properly, trap tons of crap and you can't isolate them to a separate area of the tank. They spawn by releasing eggs and end up everywhere! I started with 2 polyps hitchhiking on a frag and ended up with millions of them. Getting rid of them is nearly impossible too. Chemicals, if you can find them, and apparently this slug above that are probably not just sitting at the LFS waiting to go home with you! :)

Madreefer

03-16-2013, 06:38 PM

Because the cover everything, prevent new SPS from encrusting properly, trap tons of crap and you can't isolate them to a separate area of the tank. They spawn by releasing eggs and end up everywhere! I started with 2 polyps hitchhiking on a frag and ended up with millions of them. Getting rid of them is nearly impossible too. Chemicals, if you can find them, and apparently this slug above that are probably not just sitting at the LFS waiting to go home with you! :)

I'll second that. They're evil and those that sell or give them away are just as bad. It takes years of frustration trying to get rid of them.

Aquattro

03-16-2013, 06:39 PM

It takes years of frustration trying to get rid of them.

Or a couple of well placed Fluke Tabs -lol

Madreefer

03-16-2013, 06:45 PM

Or a couple of well placed Fluke Tabs -lol

Haha well that too. If your lucky enough to find someone that is nice enough to part with some. Fluke tabs all the way. 4 days of tense watching the suckers die off is way better than years of stress. Most hardcore reefers have some kind of OCD. They can relate.:lol:

albert_dao

03-16-2013, 06:49 PM

Said slug is awesome!!!!!!!!! Eats the tops off them like lollipops.

kien

03-16-2013, 06:55 PM

They're evil and those that sell or give them away are just as bad.

Ouch.

don.ald

03-16-2013, 06:56 PM

Said slug is awesome!!!!!!!!! Eats the tops off them like lollipops.

What,else,does the slug eat on the reef?

Madreefer

03-16-2013, 07:04 PM

Ouch.

Oh Kien everyone knows you got nice ones:lol:
Polyps that is.

Borderjumper

03-16-2013, 07:22 PM

Haha well that too. If your lucky enough to find someone that is nice enough to part with some. Fluke tabs all the way. 4 days of tense watching the suckers die off is way better than years of stress. Most hardcore reefers have some kind of OCD. They can relate.:lol:

Are fluke tabs not being made anymore? I wonder if they eventually expire? I found a pack from my old freshwater daze!

Aquattro

03-16-2013, 08:07 PM

Are fluke tabs not being made anymore? I wonder if they eventually expire? I found a pack from my old freshwater daze!

dibs!!!!

Aquattro

03-16-2013, 08:08 PM

Are fluke tabs not being made anymore? I wonder if they eventually expire? I found a pack from my old freshwater daze!

Actuuuuallly, you owe me a couple. I got the blue devils from you!! lol :razz:

Borderjumper

03-16-2013, 08:17 PM

Actuuuuallly, you owe me a couple. I got the blue devils from you!! lol :razz:
Haha along with everything else!

I have a few in my tank and I quite like them..they never seem to get out of hand tho.

Aquattro

03-16-2013, 08:24 PM

Haha along with everything else!

I have a few in my tank and I quite like them..they never seem to get out of hand tho.

Ok, I had that one coming!! hehe

mohammadali

03-16-2013, 08:33 PM

Because the cover everything, prevent new SPS from encrusting properly, trap tons of crap and you can't isolate them to a separate area of the tank. They spawn by releasing eggs and end up everywhere! I started with 2 polyps hitchhiking on a frag and ended up with millions of them. Getting rid of them is nearly impossible too. Chemicals, if you can find them, and apparently this slug above that are probably not just sitting at the LFS waiting to go home with you! :)

the pink cucumber slug :O ? once i bought one from King ED last year their boss took off the pink cucumber and give it to me and when i bought it home it killed all my corals and fish so i dont mind to have purple clove tank :P

albert_dao

03-16-2013, 10:28 PM

the pink cucumber slug :O ? once i bought one from King ED last year their boss took off the pink cucumber and give it to me and when i bought it home it killed all my corals and fish so i dont mind to have purple clove tank :P

http://www.seaslugforum.net/find/marioliv - This is as close as I can find. Turns out there's the added bonus of eating encrusting gorgs too! <3

I have it with a host of different corals including Zoas, several LPS, a sunset monti, etc. It only comes out at night and I only see it munching on the patch of blue polyps. The thing is that it eats SLOOOWWWWWWWWW. It would be a simple matter of catching and removing it should it become a nuisance. The nice thing about slugs is that they tend to focus on a VERY narrow selection of dietary prey species (think monti eating nudies or aiptasia eating berghia) which allows us to employ them for very specific tasks.

2bafish

03-16-2013, 11:49 PM

I want some

Timbits

03-17-2013, 01:42 AM

Apparently there's a slug that eats them

http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a171/tyty_220/AD54BFA0-3154-4961-ACBF-B059A77A5D63-262-000000BB4E0D96CC_zps6191c6bf.jpg

Hi what's this slug called and does it only eat blue clove polyps? Thanks!

spit.fire

03-17-2013, 01:55 AM

Hi what's this slug called and does it only eat blue clove polyps? Thanks!

Refer to Albert's posts as I have no clue

Madreefer

03-24-2013, 06:40 AM

Man I'm so pi**ed. I came back from my final 2 weeks of work in the praries to see the polyps starting to pop up in my tank again. I followed everyones dosing reccomendations. They were all gone when I left. What a disappointment to come home to. And my tank is looking so good right now too. Actually was starting to collect more zoas and palys again. I want to rip my tank down now.:sad:

Ken

03-24-2013, 07:24 AM

I would like something purple for a change, send them my way to the island. Ken

larrysy

09-19-2014, 09:51 AM

Is this what you are discussing here?

http://www.canadacorals.com/collections/livestock/products/purple-clove-polyp-frag

Norstar

09-19-2014, 01:47 PM

Yep :)

The Guy

09-19-2014, 03:41 PM

Is this what you are discussing here?

http://www.canadacorals.com/collections/livestock/products/purple-clove-polyp-frag

Nice looking polyp frag, but after reading this thread "NO THANKS" :hand:

Starry

09-19-2014, 04:15 PM

See here:http://www.canreef.com/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=105909

input80

06-06-2017, 06:58 PM

Old thread, I know. Need to stop this ongoing infestation, our zoas are being smothered out for starters. I'm almost ready to restart the tank with new/unaffected rock/sand. Please help me to not do this. I do recall that some subsided a cpl mths ago with a chemiclean (for red cyano) treatment. Did anyone confirm that carbon dosing actually helped, if yes, how was it applied?

Aquattro

06-06-2017, 07:04 PM

Horrible little things, huh?? :)

input80

06-06-2017, 07:07 PM

Man they spread fast :redface:

DAVE

06-06-2017, 10:02 PM

You could try what they did in the article below. Haven't had that issue so cant really comment on it.

https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/eliminating-blue-clove-polyps-with-fenbendazole.308994/

Tyfighter

06-06-2017, 10:27 PM

I recently dealt with them and it wasn't fun. I tried everything the only things that worked was fendobenzol which you need a prescription from a vet to get. PM me if you need some I know of where you can get it now
It's been 7 months and I haven't seen a single clove. I did however lose the mojority of my cleanup crew and a large portion of my Sps. I'm not sure if it was the fendobenzol or the purple clove dying off was what actually killed the Sps.

Personly I don't think people should sell them period. They don't just stay confined to a single rock, they will spawn and pop up all over the tank randomly one day and then you are screwed.

xandraescape

06-07-2017, 04:00 AM

I have tried to conduct some research on the internet and have seen this community thread. Maybe this could help here's the link,

http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1868299

input80

06-07-2017, 08:26 AM

Thank you Tyfighter & xandraescape

input80

06-07-2017, 09:15 AM

Thank you Tyfighter & xandraescape

Dave also.

corpusse

06-08-2017, 03:36 PM

I would love to try one of these treatments but I have way too many softies plus a big portion of my cleanup crew is 1000s of astrena starfish.

To be fair my purple polyps have really gone down from the infestation I had a few years ago. I find LPS will encrust over them, like favia, gonestra and blastomussa even of course this will take many years unless you put some fast growing chalice over them.

I hope one day someone will sell a clove polyp eating nudibranch. That's my last hope I just deal with having them on a few rocks these days.