ID help please: Are these brown clove polyps?

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Are these brown clove polyps growing beside my Zoas? If so should I try and get rid of them? THanks!

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It looks like clove polyps to me, and yes you should try to get rid of them, they will spread to every rock space in your tank very quickly.
 
Sorry lol, I lost my battle against them and had to do an entire rock swap.

If its a small patch you can try covering it with glue or kalk paste, or even consider to pull the rock entirely.

There is a thread of using fenbendazole to kill them, it seems questionable to me and I never tried it, but here is the thread for you to read and decide for yourself. Good luck


https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/eliminating-blue-clove-polyps-with-fenbendazole.308994/
 

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