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Bpb
03/27/2013, 05:30 PM
Likely purchasing some killer acans and favias from a local who is selling his tank. They're at a great price only problem is every unoccupied inch of his tank is covered with blue clove polyps. Rock, sand, glass, hardware...everything. Really want the favias and acans but I don't want the blue cloves. Any ideas on how I can get the corals and not the blue cloves?

brandon429
03/27/2013, 05:35 PM
should be pretty simple on the corals. rock would be harder to prevent hitchhiking.

The cloves wont come in on the coral tissue, so that only leaves the lower skeletal portions to carry it in. There will be flesh there if the polyps are there, scrape it off. Preventing blue clove hitchhikers on non lr surfaces should be a cinch.

Bpb
03/27/2013, 05:45 PM
Thanks for the reply. Seeing what plague proportions they can get to has made me paranoid. Read too many tank tear downs because of them. Worried some tiny spec will be hiding on a bit of skeleton that I don't see and a month later I'll have it popping up everywhere like aiptasia...only faster.

aandfsoccr04
03/27/2013, 06:15 PM
http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2153276&highlight=fluke