How to Kill Purple Clove Polyps DIE! DIE! DIE! :)

[Aquattro]

Originally Posted by MaxDraco

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.

[mohammadali]

Originally Posted by Aquattro

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

why :O ?

[Aquattro]

Originally Posted by mohammadali

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!

[kien]

Originally Posted by mohammadali

why would u kill em ?
give me some free frags

You know what they say about one man's trash being another man's treasure 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)..



Blue cloves up against zoas..



Blue cloves on clams:



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



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?