These turds have survived Bayer, Coral RX Pro, KCI, and Exodus dip.
They apparently retract into their tubes, and back into the coral skeleton where they apparently are safe from the medications.
Below I will post some pictures for reference. The first pic is mine, but the others are just random pics I found so forgive me if this is one of your pictures. I would give photo credit, but I do not remember where I got them. I am still unsure exactly what these are, but the picture that has the red circle is for sure what I have in a few corals. I’m not completely sure that all these pics have the same exact species, but it looks pretty close. When I first noticed mine, they were at the base of the coral in the first pic. They formed several like brown spikes or tubes. I broke them all off, and instantly dipped that coral in Bayer and Coral RX. Thought for sure I got them only to see them come out 3-5 days later. So I fragged the LT branch off that frag and remounted it. So far so good and it’s encrusting the rock. Has good color. Hoping I fragged it high enough.
If you know a medication or treatment that will smoke these guys, please post up. Some of my corals basically started to grow slower, and will probably quit progressing all together. I believe they basically stunt the growth over time and in some cases kill the host coral. Likely a slow death and one of those corals that sits and just doesn’t grow or do well.
They appear to put out the two tentacles as filter feeders. IDK. Anyway, I have that first frag on the plug to test with so let me know.
They apparently retract into their tubes, and back into the coral skeleton where they apparently are safe from the medications.
Below I will post some pictures for reference. The first pic is mine, but the others are just random pics I found so forgive me if this is one of your pictures. I would give photo credit, but I do not remember where I got them. I am still unsure exactly what these are, but the picture that has the red circle is for sure what I have in a few corals. I’m not completely sure that all these pics have the same exact species, but it looks pretty close. When I first noticed mine, they were at the base of the coral in the first pic. They formed several like brown spikes or tubes. I broke them all off, and instantly dipped that coral in Bayer and Coral RX. Thought for sure I got them only to see them come out 3-5 days later. So I fragged the LT branch off that frag and remounted it. So far so good and it’s encrusting the rock. Has good color. Hoping I fragged it high enough.
If you know a medication or treatment that will smoke these guys, please post up. Some of my corals basically started to grow slower, and will probably quit progressing all together. I believe they basically stunt the growth over time and in some cases kill the host coral. Likely a slow death and one of those corals that sits and just doesn’t grow or do well.
They appear to put out the two tentacles as filter feeders. IDK. Anyway, I have that first frag on the plug to test with so let me know.