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

[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!

[Madreefer]

Originally Posted by Aquattro

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]

Originally Posted by Madreefer

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

Or a couple of well placed Fluke Tabs -lol

[Madreefer]

Originally Posted by Aquattro

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.

[albert_dao]

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

[don.ald]

Originally Posted by albert_dao

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

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

[Borderjumper]

Originally Posted by Madreefer

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.

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

[Aquattro]

Originally Posted by Borderjumper

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

dibs!!!!

[Aquattro]

Originally Posted by Borderjumper

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

[Borderjumper]

Originally Posted by Aquattro

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

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.