Acanthophyllia has something under it.

[mumra]

So I bumped some ricks a while back and it's guessed it messed up the flow a little and I can't figure how to get it back to normal. As a result this acanthophyllia is getting to much flow and I can see this little worm looking stuff under it. Does this look like something I should worry about? Should I do a dip?

 

[Hunna]

Those look like the tubes of the red micro feather dusters if I’m not mistaken. They are harmless, but enough of them can irritate things and slow down skeletal growth from my experience. Could be wrong though.

 

[dough]

Those look like the tubes of the red micro feather dusters if I’m not mistaken. They are harmless, but enough of them can irritate things and slow down skeletal growth from my experience. Could be wrong though.

Sign of a healthy tank

 

[mumra]

If it helps here is a pic of what it normally looks like.

 

[Hunna]

If it’s fully open when the lights are on, I wouldn’t worry about it. If you start noticing tissue receding then maybe use bone cutters or something similar to scrape it off

 

[mumra]

Damn! 2 new casualties. The hammer was looking pretty retracted yesterday but the acanthophyllia was just fine. I mean last night at about 8pm everything was fine. Could my foxface be eating them? The dude straight up murdered my toadstool leather.

 

[rudyoliveira1]

Dang that sucks.

 

[NAS]

Yes entirely possible your fox face is nipping/eating these. They specially love fleshy corals.

 

[mumra]

Yes entirely possible your fox face is nipping/eating these. They specially love fleshy corals.

I think the one that died is one i got from you.

One thing is for sure. If something else looks injured any time soon this guy is leaving and I'd really hate that because he's one of my favorite. I had one before him that never touched anything but he mysteriously died. Regardless this sucks. I just hope that I can catch him if need be. It's a big tank with tons of hiding room.

 

[NAS]

Aw man. I’m sorry to hear that.

 

[mumra]

I'm going to try and feed the foxface and sailfin more to see if that helps. I'll also do a big water change tomorrow and test monday to see if I can find a culprit that isn't a fish.

 

[Dave.patel]

@mumra - very unlikely its your fox face. Especially with that many corals being affected. How are flesh bands on your Euphyllia? Sounds bacterial to me because how fast that hammer died. Make sure your dipping everything you get, and especially make sure the coral you buy are fully healthy and pest free.

 

[mumra]

@mumra - very unlikely its your fox face. Especially with that many corals being affected. How are flesh bands on your Euphyllia? Sounds bacterial to me because how fast that hammer died. Make sure your dipping everything you get, and especially make sure the coral you buy are fully healthy and pest free.

Yes, i dip everything and the rest of my corals look super healthy. Perhaps I should get a wrasse? My Google-Fu says that they will merc my CUC. Surely this can't be the case. How would anyone have a cuc and wrasses?

 

[mumra]

Pulled the casualties from te tank and here's what they looked like. I also found a couple of worms on them. This is the best Pic I could get of them.

 

[Hunna]

Looks like vermatid snails in a few different spots in the second picture. Those will definitely irritate things more than little feather dusters do.

 

[mumra]

I went ahead and got an Exquisite Fairy Wrasse this am. Here he is Sir Elton John. It felt appropriate.

 

[mumra]

I think it's happening again. This torch looked fine thus morning. Now:

 

[Hunna]

Have you looked for/noticed any flatworms? Euphyllia eating flatworms did a number on mine my first ~6 months in the hobby.

 

[mumra]

Have you looked for/noticed any flatworms? Euphyllia eating flatworms did a number on mine my first ~6 months in the hobby.

Yeah, I can't find anything. Then again we are talking about a Waterbox 220.6. Plenty of places to hide.

 

[mumra]

Saw this in another thread. I 100% have seen thus exact thing.