Blue clove polyps

[tank of gems]

I had a small frag of blue clove polyps. And now ot has spreaded everywhere covering my rocks etc, and around my acros etc. Its driving me nuts pf how bad it spreaded. I tried to syphon or scrape it off but it comes right back after a few days or so. So I started to do some research and found someone had used Fenbendazole. So I read the thread numerous times. So my question is will this stuff harm or kill my sps, bounce mushrooms, jaw breakers etc which I have a bunch of high end corals. Any help or info would be great

 

[bigdrew]

Care to mail me a frag? I’ll pay for shipping, especially if you are just trying to get rid of it!

With respect to disposal, one solution that I’ve seen is people just take the rocks out that have it on it and let them dry, one by one, for a week or more. This assumes the rocks don’t have other corals on them. Just need to pay attention to ammonia spikes and so forth when returning the rock to the display, so do it one rock at a time and make sure to rinse with RO water.

 

[C. Eymann]

Care to mail me a frag? I’ll pay for shipping, especially if you are just trying to get rid of it!

With respect to disposal, one solution that I’ve seen is people just take the rocks out that have it on it and let them dry, one by one, for a week or more. This assumes the rocks don’t have other corals on them. Just need to pay attention to ammonia spikes and so forth when returning the rock to the display, so do it one rock at a time and make sure to rinse with RO water.

This isnt sympodium, I think OP is referring to sarcothelia. You dont want sarcothelia.

I agree with your eradication method though, sarcothelia is incredibly resilient and hard to get rid of without going to extremes

 

[bigdrew]

If it’s not sympodium, you’re right, I don’t want it! Ha! Thanks for sharing that @C. Eymann

 

[tank of gems]

I will post a pic shortly

 

[C. Eymann]

I will post a pic shortly

Post a pic both with it out/open and closed up

 

[tank of gems]

Opened

 

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Closed

 

[C. Eymann]

Looks like sarcothelia to me and wow it looks like its choking out die hard poccilopora, that's pretty bad.

 

[tank of gems]

I have a massive colony of the poccilopora and small spots in multiple areas. So any ideas on how to get rid of it

 

[C. Eymann]

I have a massive colony of the poccilopora and small spots in multiple areas. So any ideas on how to get rid of it

Man, you just have all the pest corals ! lol, sorry man, but with the sarcothelia, other than removing the rock its on, I'm not sure what to tell you, that stuff is like cancer.

As far as poccilopora damicornis control goes, I have had the best luck with epoxying over there new little starts.

 

[DSC reef]

Looks like sarcothelia to me and wow it looks like its choking out die hard poccilopora, that's pretty bad.

It appears this is a common mistake made in ID of blue sympodium, I'm guilty of it as well. Thanks for the heads up, love learning new things @C. Eymann

 

[tank of gems]

Ok so here is my display so you can see what I am dealing with

 

[bigdrew]

Could you frag pieces of the acros/other coral and just air dry those rocks?

 

[tank of gems]

I can remove all the acros from the rocks thats not a problem

 

[Camron]

Unpopular opinion, but I think it looks kind of neat with the rocks all overgrown like that.

I understand why you would want to get rid of the stuff though.

 

[tank of gems]

It does look ok but i would like to spread my acros everywhere on my rocks

 

[tank of gems]

Ok so does anyone know if any fish such as butterflies or any that would eat it

 

[tripdad]

I did the Fenbendazole treatment about 5 years ago for these pest. I lost no sps,Lps or fish. You might want remove your cleanup crew as it stunned my snails for a few hours. I had no softies or nems at the time so can't speak to them.

 

[tank of gems]

Ok i looked up the Fenbendazole and is it the fish Fenbendazole or something different when i googled it