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[wallacefan48]

I have a 90 reef aquarium
I have what i think is a red/maroon clove polyp.
It has taken over all my rock my overflow and my whole tank.
It has killed all my zoas and acans the only thing that fights it off is GSP
I have tried 2 times to tear down buy new rock and it still returns
what can i do?

[drnightowl2010]

Do u have a pic of the tank and the problem poylop

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[wallacefan48]

yes not sure to load on here?

[drnightowl2010]

Up arrow in reply bar .. click on it go to camera or wherever your pic is stored

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[wallacefan48]

saying upload failed

[drnightowl2010]

Let's see if this fails11877

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[drnightowl2010]

Go to the paper clip ...when u add the pic

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[drnightowl2010]

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[wallacefan48]

sorry it says failed to upload

[drnightowl2010]

Really .... u using a phone or computer?

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[wallacefan48]

laptop i wonder if the file size is too big is over 3 mb

[drnightowl2010]

Could be .... Can u crop the pic from the computer

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[wallacefan48]

11878

here is a picture

[wallacefan48]

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another picture

[drnightowl2010]

Looks like a Sea Mat polyp .. very aggressive

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[wallacefan48]

not sure how to beat it

[drnightowl2010]

That's a hard one ... because it is a mat . It only takes missing a little spot and it will come right back. ... fast grower and aggressive like I said

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[drnightowl2010]

U said u removed all rock ?

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[wallacefan48]

i know i have torn down my tank 2x and replaced all the rock and it came righ tback

[drnightowl2010]

U replace substrate also ?

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[wallacefan48]

i dont know if it is in the water column or just polyp left somewhere in the tank when i reassmbled it

[wallacefan48]

no just cleaned the sand

[drnightowl2010]

U have to missing it somewhere

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[wallacefan48]

yeah tough to know if you got it all if sucks into crevices everywhere only thing to do is replace with new tankk sump pumps powerheads?
rock and sand and coral andmaybe fish

[drnightowl2010]

U would have to replace substrate and check overflow box/boxes and any coral u have

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[wallacefan48]

nothing will eat all that?

[drnightowl2010]

Almost start over .... or I think if u get a fish that eats coral it will eat it up ... but I don't know if it would take completely care of it .....

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[wallacefan48]

guess its time to call it quits then:tear:

[drnightowl2010]

I have alot of coral so I would have to take all rock out and let it die and replace the substrate and clean all of the tank ... would be like stating over .... ask others about it maybe they will have better answers then mine ....

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[wallacefan48]

no that is the solution i came up with as well
buy new tank and new rock and new substrate not bring anything over from this tank except maybe the fish

[wallacefan48]

this stuff killed all my coral except my gsp and leathers

[drnightowl2010]

Be about it sorry to say ..... I myself was not told by the local fish store that neon green star polyps were aggressive like yours and they sold them to me knowing I was new to the hobby they also sold me pulsating zenas .. also aggressive .. that was awile back .. so as I watch it grow I seen how it was doing it .. so I removed it fast .... now I stay away from anything that I can't control. ..

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[wallacefan48]

i hear ya just not sure if i want all that expense right now

thanx for your help

[drnightowl2010]

I have a potato chip coral that kills anything it touches. ..lol

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[drnightowl2010]

I hear ya on the money. . .. what size tank ?

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[MizTanks]

Red Clove Polyps. Is this them?
http://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20161117/ab38dbc20e3e3dc6b15ad1f7cdc2f1cc.jpg

[drnightowl2010]

His look purple with white center from the pic

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[MizTanks]

Yeah just caught that. I had a rock of Lavender Star Polyps which I believe his are also. I'm sure there's other names but google pic come up with LSP.
http://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20161117/de786add498d2e73ad049e472e647c53.jpg

[drnightowl2010]

That looks like them

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[jimsflies]

If that was the only thing on the rocks, I would take them out and manually get the stuff off. Depending on what's in your tank, you could do it one or two rocks at a time over several weeks to minimize the disruption to the system.

As far as removal from the rock, I'd bet a propane torch and wire brush, followed up with a freshwater rinse might do a decent job.

[Nickdd11]

Those are Caribbean star polyps sometimes you can get royal damsels to eat them but a i got ride of mine by starving them. I ran so much carbon replacing it every week which i believe took so many nitrients out of the water they starved to death. There are officially no more in my system. However i lost many other zoas and cloves and star polyps as well. So if you dont want that to happen you can control them by sucks them out and using aptasia x to keep them at bay.

[MizTanks]

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