I'm 72 hours into my journey to eliminate blue clove polyps (BCP) from my system, and thought I'd share my experiences. A while back, like 6 months or so I tried Fluconazole to get rid of them, initially I thought this worked! They got pretty ticked off, but only for 48 hours. Then they resumed their normal existance. I was discouraged, but wanted to wait a bit before trying something else. Over the last month I'd estimate that my BCP population doubled, the patches of them were getting pretty large and extremely noticeable. It was no longer a pest that just lives over in the corner...it was spreading everywhere.
So I decided to give the Fenbendazole a shot. @Andrew_bram had some left over after successfully treating his BCP, and he generously let me have a packet. Each packet treats 250 gallons of water, and I estimate that I have 225 total gallons...so I figured I would be a little high on the dose, but not drastic. So I emptied the powder onto a piece of paper and used the back of a spoon to pulverize it into an even finer powder. I added this powder to 1 gallon of RO water. I then shook it all up and it dissolved really easily. I got out my turkey baster and blasted the medicine directly on the patches of BCP. Then I dumped the remaining mix into high flow areas of my display tank. It was in, there was no turning back now! At the point I realized there was no turning back now....I also realized that I isolated my 40g breeder because it contains a ton of green star polyps! Oh crap, I just went from overdosing a little bit...to overdosing by a lot. My effective gallons were closer to 185 rather than 250 gallons. I'm no rocket surgeon, but that seems like too much. But short of doing water changes, and adding carbon immediately I decided to just monitor closely.
Here is one colony of BCP at hour 0, right before I added the Fenbendazole. I have several larger colonies than this, this one was just close to the front glass and easiest to photograph. I labled it day 1, which is confusing and not to be confused with the 24 hrs. picture. This is really 0 hour:
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So I decided to give the Fenbendazole a shot. @Andrew_bram had some left over after successfully treating his BCP, and he generously let me have a packet. Each packet treats 250 gallons of water, and I estimate that I have 225 total gallons...so I figured I would be a little high on the dose, but not drastic. So I emptied the powder onto a piece of paper and used the back of a spoon to pulverize it into an even finer powder. I added this powder to 1 gallon of RO water. I then shook it all up and it dissolved really easily. I got out my turkey baster and blasted the medicine directly on the patches of BCP. Then I dumped the remaining mix into high flow areas of my display tank. It was in, there was no turning back now! At the point I realized there was no turning back now....I also realized that I isolated my 40g breeder because it contains a ton of green star polyps! Oh crap, I just went from overdosing a little bit...to overdosing by a lot. My effective gallons were closer to 185 rather than 250 gallons. I'm no rocket surgeon, but that seems like too much. But short of doing water changes, and adding carbon immediately I decided to just monitor closely.
Here is one colony of BCP at hour 0, right before I added the Fenbendazole. I have several larger colonies than this, this one was just close to the front glass and easiest to photograph. I labled it day 1, which is confusing and not to be confused with the 24 hrs. picture. This is really 0 hour:
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