+SChrisEV Posted July 15, 2020 Share Posted July 15, 2020 I need help and info on how to best deal with the below. It's now all over my aquarium. It's worse than GSP. Ideally there would be a natural ways to remove it, but I'm open to most anything now. What is this even called? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
victoly Posted July 15, 2020 Share Posted July 15, 2020 They look like some kind of clove polyp. There are chemical treatments some have used (myself included). Do some googling about febendazole. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Pro Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+SChrisEV Posted July 15, 2020 Author Share Posted July 15, 2020 Thank you! I will do some research on that. As a high level, do I need to be concerned about livestock with these chemical treatments? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
victoly Posted July 15, 2020 Share Posted July 15, 2020 Yes. It’s not invert friendly. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Pro Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+SChrisEV Posted July 15, 2020 Author Share Posted July 15, 2020 Was afraid of that, but might be worth the effort of catching all I can and putting them in another system for a bit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mFrame Posted July 15, 2020 Share Posted July 15, 2020 I had a copperband butterfly that absolutely eradicated it from my tank. Pretty, cool fish. The only issue is that after it's gone you'll need to pass him on or he'll starve. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+SChrisEV Posted July 15, 2020 Author Share Posted July 15, 2020 I had one some time back that loved aphasia... not sure it eat any of the clove polyp, but maybe he was keeping it at bay, because at that point I did not have much at all...if any!? Maybe I need to get another one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mFrame Posted July 17, 2020 Share Posted July 17, 2020 On 7/15/2020 at 4:33 PM, SChrisEV said: I had one some time back that loved aphasia... not sure it eat any of the clove polyp, but maybe he was keeping it at bay, because at that point I did not have much at all...if any!? Maybe I need to get another one. Yep, once mine got rid of the aiptasia he went for the clove. I never saw cloves again (but did aiptasia) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimbo662 Posted July 17, 2020 Share Posted July 17, 2020 I got them in my tank about 2 yrs ago. I tried fenbendazole. They disappeared...until a month or so later and they reappeared! Treated again and same result. Eventually just removed the rocks they were on. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+SChrisEV Posted July 17, 2020 Author Share Posted July 17, 2020 I did a good bit of reading about fenbendazole treatments, and it seemed that in most cases shrimp lived, even smaller types, snails didn't, but that about serpent stars and even more of a concern tiger cucumbers. I've heard that cucumbers can crash a system if they die. I have GSP on my back wall, if it did die I wouldn't be too upset. What did you experience @Jimbo662 Trying to remove the tiger cucumbers would probably be equivalent to taking all my rock out. The ONE I added is at least 4 now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimbo662 Posted July 17, 2020 Share Posted July 17, 2020 2 hours ago, SChrisEV said: I did a good bit of reading about fenbendazole treatments, and it seemed that in most cases shrimp lived, even smaller types, snails didn't, but that about serpent stars and even more of a concern tiger cucumbers. I've heard that cucumbers can crash a system if they die. I have GSP on my back wall, if it did die I wouldn't be too upset. What did you experience @Jimbo662 Trying to remove the tiger cucumbers would probably be equivalent to taking all my rock out. The ONE I added is at least 4 now. Nothing in the tank was affected by the treatment. The clove polyps seemed to disappear after several days...but both times eventually came back. I even tried scrubbing them with a toothbrush but it didn't seem to help. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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