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

[kien]

Originally Posted by MaxDraco

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]

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.

[kien]

Originally Posted by Madreefer

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]

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..



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]

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

[kien]

Originally Posted by lastlight

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

[lastlight]

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