Will clove polyps do any harm to acroporas?

[Gungo]

I have a few rocks with some clove polyps colonies. (not the blue ones, I have the one that looks like xenia with pink, orange and green polyps. I believe their name is clavularia). I like that coral, but now im kind of inclining to acropora and my question is.. Will this coral cause any problem to my acroporas? like being aggresive etc?

 

[Crabs McJones]

I have a few rocks with some clove polyps colonies. (not the blue ones, I have the one that looks like xenia with pink, orange and green polyps. I believe their name is clavularia). I like that coral, but now im kind of inclining to acropora and my question is.. Will this coral cause any problem to my acroporas? like being aggresive etc?

You may need to occasionally trim them back, they will try to grow over your acro. I had the same issue with green star polyps, ended up taking the rock out and removing all traces of it. Cool coral but it was choking out 3 of my acros.

 

[madweazl]

Most of the polyps proliferate quickly which makes them a pain to manage. They can and will grow over many corals as well. While they can be attractive, they're best isolated to their own "island" if you want to keep them (regardless of what you pair them with in my opinion).

 

[Gungo]

Thank you guys for the comments! I don't want to remove the rocks because they're my main ones! What ill do is just cut them all with a Dremel. I found some videos on youtube showing how this clavularia can dominate a whole tank! thanks!!

 

[madweazl]

Thank you guys for the comments! I don't want to remove the rocks because they're my main ones! What ill do is just cut them all with a Dremel. I found some videos on youtube showing how this clavularia can dominate a whole tank! thanks!!

OK, I'm going to strongly urge you to replace them but do what you must. When things are going well, it's dang near impossible to kill things. One of the main pieces of my aquascape was dominated by cyphastrea and if I hadnt removed it when I did, it would have been too late. I also have a pipe organ that has gone nuts. I mash it to unrecognizable bits every couple of months but it bounces back like herpes... My point, do it now while it's early enough to recover.

 

[Bacon505]

No, clove doesnt bother sps, they are invasive but arent aggressive. They will grow around sps and not over it. IME, they are good detergent to algae. Having these growing will help prevent nuance algae growing on your rock.
You can see my rocks are covered with them

 

[Gungo]

No, clove doesnt bother sps, they are invasive but arent aggressive. They will grow around sps and not over it. IME, they are good detergent to algae. Having these growing will help prevent nuance algae growing on your rock.
You can see my rocks are covered with them

You have an awesome tank! That's stunning! You have the blue ones that are really small.. I already took them all out of my rock and located them on the bottom of my tank.. They still growing over the sand but they're not bothering my acroporas anymore. I will upload pictures later but thank you for the comment!