Remove clove polyps for good

[Zoa_Fanatic]

Some clove polyps hitchhiked into my tank somehow. They are isolated to a small are about the size of a half dollar on a movable top rock. I have contulinously removed them by removing the rock and brushing them off with a toothbrush destroying the polyps under running water. I don’t do this in my tank. How the heck do I kill these dudes so they don’t come back and spread?

 

[liddojunior]

If they small can you just like super glue them over? Rub some sand while it’s wet to hide the glue.
Basically burying them under glue and sand.
Or chip off the rock bits it’s attached to?

 

[Zoa_Fanatic]

If they small can you just like super glue them over? Rub some sand while it’s wet to hide the glue.
Basically burying them under glue and sand.
Or chip off the rock bits it’s attached to?

Will glue kill them? I can glue over these rocks and it’ll straight up break off the rock after it sits a week or two without damaging the rock in any way.

 

[liddojunior]

Will glue kill them? I can glue over these rocks and it’ll straight up break off the rock after it sits a week or two without damaging the rock in any way.

I know people do for aptasia so not sure if it would work on clove corals. I was thinking could work here if it’s just those small spots. If it was like a full blown mat then I wouldn’t recommend glue

I’ve also seen Fendendazole used to kill blue clove polyps if you want to do a drug method

 

[Hollywood_XL]

I’ve put reef epoxy over clove polyps nearly A year ago and never saw them again!

 

[reefslugs]

I recently used Fenbendazole to remove the tiny clove polyps from my tank. It absolutely worked. After treatment I continued running a skimmer. I turned back on the UV sterilizer and added a large amount of carbon in a reactor. It has been four weeks cents the treatment. Now my issues is that the tank has red slim algae. I am afraid to try treat for red slim algae being that it might be too hard on the tank at this time. My second issue is my Zoas look stressed and I tried putting a few snails back in the tank, but in two days they were dead. What is the proper way to remove Fenbendazole?

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