Clove problem and tank update.

Hey everyone!

So back in May I had so many problems with my tank. I'm sure some of you saw. Alkalinity swing that killed half of my sps and a AEFW problem in which I chose to toss most of what was left. I had a dosing problem too but that didn't really do anything.

I had moved all my sps into my 180g at work. A lot of corals were encrusted so I moved rocks and all. I then broke the sps off the rocks, dipped them all and placed them in qt with multiple dippings for a month. I never saw any flatworms at all but I found a few pieces with eggs. I inspected and tossed anything that had eggs or even bit marks. I didn't want to take a chance.

Here is a picture of my dead sps. This bag is huge. Half is from my alk swing and the other half is what I tossed. Again I didn't take any chances with the AEFW. I am happy to report I have not seen any eggs or signs for months.




After that I reaquascaped my tank but since I removed so many rocks I thought I would add more. I bought a couple live rock pieces and some sps frags from someone a few days later. I dipped all the sps I had bought.

Since then I started noticing some blue/red cloves. I kept meaning to do something about it but since I wasn't really doing anything to my tank I didn't bother to remove it. Now I have a huge clove problem. It's been a pain as I cannot add new sps because the glue won't stick to the cloves and I cannot see any bare rock. In this picture you can see a sps free area that is completely covered in cloves.

So now the fun begins. Before I buy more sps as I save for reef-a-palooza. I want to get rid of this clove problem.

A fellow reefer gave me some fluke tabs. I won't say who as you guys would start harassing him for the tabs lol. The plan is to nuke them before I have anything else to lose besides my clams.

My clams and my powder blue is probably the only thing I care about right now so it's a perfect time.

I didn't want to treat the tank with the clams in it so I removed the clams into a brand new qt. I didn't want to use the old qt tank as I don't know what kind of residues are still in it from many medications. I won't be treating the clams just storing them separately. Today I have removed my clams and placed them in a 20g tank. There are 7 clams all together. 3 are huge. Look closely for comparison between the large clam and the smallest clam which is 1.5-2 inches.

I use this thing called mojano zapper to kill anything I don't like on my rocks.. for example, Mojanos, aptasia, zoas, xenia, cloves.. you name it melts it right away!

I have removed my biopellets as I will disable my skimmer. I have removed my carbon and a purple lobster as he would probably die. coincidentally the last peppermint shrimp was found dead this morning so that solves that problem. I thinking of what else I should remove before I start the dose

I'll look it up but these cloves have covered everything now. The last straw was when I found them in the sand bed.

good luck man zapping those cloves


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Remove any leathers or gorgonians if u have any... they will smoke and pollute your tank.

No leathers or gorgs. Only thing non sps is some candy canes and my chalices

Good to go then. Make sure do a water change after 3 or 4 days. And do another one a few days later. Youll see the cloves start to melt and not come out of their mat. It will take a few days doesnt happen right away.

Oh ok. I just did it and didn't see anything happen lol been making water all week

good luck!

Thanks, do you want your purple lobster back? Lol see still have him

still alive huh hahahaha it wouldn't fit in my nano :-/ give it to some one else

Yea I started a thread but no takers so far. Maybe everyone is out of town. I don't want to put him with my clams. Don't want him trying to attack them.

good luck with in getting rid of those cloves.

Good luck.

Thanks guys. I hope this works. Otherwise I'm replacing all my rock

Dang magnum, didn't know you were packing some clams like that...

[video=youtube;9CJ-ZL67XwA]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CJ-ZL67XwA[/video]

good luck buddy