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What would you do? Blue Clove Polyps

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My office tank has been neglected and needs an overhaul.
15 Gallon Tank.
Half of the rock is covered in Blue Clove Polyps.
Planning to remove the rock, clean it, and put it back.

How would you personally go about eradicating the clove polyps? I’m considering letting the entire rock dry out in hopes that nothing can come back to life. Scrub it clean. And then return it.

I have two fish in there that I love so I want to avoid any dangerous recycling spikes.
 
If I had the blue clover polyps that many dread. I would consider taking the rock out and just bleach it, rinse dry out, and than soak it in water with prime or similar. Drying it out will likely kill off things if dried and droped it back in the tank after that would likely lead to the die off recycling and possibly ammonia spike you mentioned. (Why I mentioned bleach)

Considering the size of the tank, I would likely just look for a replacement rock or take time to make a new structure. Be patience for a few weeks with the current situation and maybe cure or soak the new structures in saltwater and seed with some other established biomedical with heater and wave maker in a tote or container.
 
I found some last week in one spot on a rock around a frag plug I got many months ago from someone.

I took out the frag plug which removed 90% of the polyps, and glued over the other few polyps (not many) on the rock over with a lot of glue. Will see if they come back but I was very shocked when I saw them.
 
I think I may have these in my tank - but they don’t really seem able to compete with any corals and haven’t really been a problem, so maybe they are something else?

Why are they so despised - do they kill corals?
 
derek_SR said:
I think I may have these in my tank - but they don’t really seem able to compete with any corals and haven’t really been a problem, so maybe they are something else?

Why are they so despised - do they kill corals?
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Real estate invaders, they out compete and inhibit growth of others
If you see them
Commence eradication
 
JVU said:
Do you have personal experience? From what I’ve heard it kills other stuff you want like snails and other inverts. I’m considering it anyway.
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From what I can tell it'll kill multiple kinds of invertebrates including possibly annelids, and basically all octocorals. leathers, gorgs, etc

Might be worth a try if you remove as much stuff as possible first?
 
Concur with the dormant! The rock it popped up on was in my sump in the dark for about three years looked totally clean! Mounted a leather on it tossed up top within 2 months had a nice 5x5 patch all around the 3 inch wide leather base! First time scrubbed off in bucket. Three weeks later a bit popped up again so soaked the whole rock in rodi up to the coral base and scrubbed which was last week! Looks like now will have to tear off the leather and toss rock in the backyard and remount or try peroxide dip last go around..Thankfully its only on a softball size rock.. Wonder if anyone has tried that Aiptasia lazer at all. And yeah thought it was cool at first since first time seeing it..

corals in tank that you regret

Those stupid little blue clove polyps. THIS
www.bareefers.org
 
JVU said:
Do you have personal experience? From what I’ve heard it kills other stuff you want like snails and other inverts. I’m considering it anyway.
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I’ve only read about this method as a last resort. It does kill off inverts and soft corals.

I’ve also read about someone killing it off my increasing their dKh to 20+

I guess worth a shot instead of tear your entire tank down.
 
SupraSaltyReefer said:
I’ve only read about this method as a last resort. It does kill off inverts and soft corals.

I’ve also read about someone killing it off my increasing their dKh to 20+

I guess worth a shot instead of tear your entire tank down.
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I would consider setting up a separate system like a 20 gal or maybe 40 breeder to take rocks from display and treat them if I had to do it. Although when I had them they would grow on the overflow and probably existed inside planning etc for all I know.
I used to remove a structure at a time if they ever had too many aiptasia or blue cloves and let them dry out
 
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