Good flow for cloves?

Andrewalex11 · Mar 8, 2017

Recently got some Clove polyps about 9 or so heads on a small fragment. After re-arranging my entire flow pattern around to keep them in the lowest possible area in the tank I haven't seen them open back up, but anywhere else and they seem to just whip around everywhere, and the tentacles seem to stressfully retract because of this.

So my question is too much flow was stressing them out now that I lowered it they don't seem to want to come out and play!! What's this all about!? I currently have them sitting under a PAR level of about 350ish as far as lighting and 1.026 sailinity.

saltyfilmfolks · Mar 8, 2017

About like this.

And if you didn't acclimate them to the light they may stay grumpy a while. 350 is pretty bright..

Andrewalex11 · Mar 8, 2017

So this has lead me to a lighting issue and not a flow issue! Thanks I will try to acclimate them using a bit more TLC. !

Wiz · Mar 8, 2017

saltyfilmfolks said:
About like this.

And if you didn't acclimate them to the light they may stay grumpy a while. 350 is pretty bright..

Doesn't the picture show daisies? Are they the same as cloves?

Wiz · Mar 8, 2017

My cloves like very low light and low to moderate flow. They sit in a semi dark corner with barely any flow and do fantastic

saltyfilmfolks · Mar 8, 2017

Wiz said:
Doesn't the picture show daisies? Are they the same as cloves?

cloves on the left. Similar to what I'm running(a bit more laminar here).

Fabianslit · Mar 8, 2017

Cloves can adjust, I keep them in high light high flow [emoji3]

Its just important that you figure out where the previous owner had kept them for them to open back up

DIAZ REEF · Nov 3, 2020

I bought a frag with I nice head and 3 little ones. After doing research I gave it a spot dose of reef roids once a week and they have bloomed really nice and more small heads are popping out. They are at medium tank with medium to high flow. I find that with higher flow the heads don’t open up as much as I’d like, but regardless they open up and look great. I was thinking of moving to a bit less flow to get the full appearance but don’t want to stress it.