Purple Growth on Candy Cane Coral

[ryleylw]

Can anyone help me identify the purple feather shaped growth on the sides of my candy cane coral?

 

[EeyoreIsMySpiritAnimal]

Can anyone help me identify the purple feather shaped growth on the sides of my candy cane coral?

Some sort of clove polyps. These can take over a tank quickly...

 

[Minifoot77]

Isn't this a flucanizole fix?

 

[EeyoreIsMySpiritAnimal]

Isn't this a flucanizole fix?

No. Flucanozole disrupts the cell walls of certain algaes.

 

[ISpeakForTheSeas]

Isn't this a flucanizole fix?

I think you're thinking of Fenbendazole:

The only solutions I've heard for blue clove polyps aren't reef safe (they might kill off other things in the tank), but the most common treatment I've heard is Fenbendazole. Someone else used Lugol's Iodine, but they also lost some corals from that. Some people say kalk paste or super glue may work, but I haven't seen many people reporting success with it. The links below may help:

Invasive purple clove polyps

Does anyone know how to kill off invasive clove polyps? They’re starting to spread and envelop my acans and I don’t want them swallowing my garden.

www.reef2reef.com

Eliminating Blue Clove Polyps with Fenbendazole

A few years ago, I purchased a rock that had some beautiful Space Monster zoas on it. It also had some Blue Clove Polyp on it as well. I saw the BCP, I knew it was there, I really didn't worry about it at all because I had no idea what it could become. Fast forward....its now everywhere. Its...

www.reef2reef.com

 

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Some sort of invasive octocoral

 

[cilyjr]

It's hard to tell but it looks like colonial hydroids to me.

 

[Minifoot77]

I think you're thinking of Fenbendazole:

Yes sorry my science is closer to hillbilly...