How To Kill Blue Clove

[Fishit]

Any one have any luck killing off blue clove with out killing anything else in the tank ! I have my 75 gal now switching to the 180 gal I don't want to start over I have beautiful live rock but blue clove has taken over and pissed off some of my zoas the tank is sps zoa dominant and I want to use this rock in my new system the rock is very well astablished and I do not want to boil it to kill the clove are there any other options here thanks guys

 

[Joshbrookkate]

My urchin has taken a liking to mine. Wiped absolutely clean a whole rock covered in it. That's why I'm buying some more from you! Wanna borrow him? Lol

 

[Fishit]

A ha ha you would never get him back my tank is covered lol I just have no clue y some people it won't grow for and me I can't get rid of the crap

 

[Kman]

A hard plastic scrub brush and some elbow grease works. It sucks to manually do it but it works.

 

[Sewerat]

I bought a frag of it once, didn't last a month. But might have been my pearscale?

 

[Shooter000]

I have tiny stars that eat my blue cloves, they are orange with a black and grey line around the outside of the stars body, I only have tiny little patches of cloves thx to them, and they also never touch any other corals

 

[Fishit]

Hmm that's what I was thinking maybe something that will eat just them

 

[aquaman]

Too bad your in Windsor id take some off your hands. Anyone in gta want to part with some

 

[Kyle1970]

Been battling BCP for a year.
Kalk paste will kill for a bit but they just take over the spot again.

 

[Joshbrookkate]

Long spine urchin. Leaves areas perfectly white.

 

[Fishit]

Don't the urchints eat live rock though ? What about a copper butterfly will they eat blue clove

 

[Sewerat]

Urchins don't eat live rock. They eat the coralline on it.

 

[Joshbrookkate]

Urchins don't eat live rock. They eat the coralline on it.

Mine likes nori, too. Beautiful thing, even if he's a little big in my 75. So interesting we can't give him up.

Ps - I read that there is a rock boring urchin that will eat live rock. Not a recommended species.

Michelle

 

[Fishit]

Lol ya that's what I must have seen I was watching some vid on reefs and they where complaining about the urchins earthing the reef

 

[Kjay]

180 omg and that amazing 75 hmmm

 

[Kyle1970]

Old thread but I think tomorrow I'm going to pull all the rock out of my tank a piece at a time and hit it with a torch to kill the BCP's.
Plan to pull out one piece, torch it, put into a holding tank of water then grab the next and so on.
Hoping to redo the rockscape so why not kill two birds at once.
Not sure if I want to keep it BB or put some crushed coral in (which may assist in balancing the ph)