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I need help identifying these bugs. I have looked everywhere in the forum and in other forums and can't seem to find any straight answers.
So about a week and a half ago, just this one acro (its just a simple green no name acro) has the bugs on it, they seem to be latching by their mouth, with the rest of the body hanging out with the current, close to, but not quite on the mouths of the polyps. There seems to be around 8 or 9 of them. So far, no viewable damage has been caused to the coral, but im starting to worry that if the numbers multiply, might actually have some issues. They are barely observable with the naked eye, yet upon closer look with an eye lupe, they become evident as not being sweeper tentacles or polyps.
Phone pic from my Galaxy S5
The picture is not great, but you can see them clearly.
They look somewhat like a copepod, just skinnier and more elongated with several appendages which seem like legs, and once they attach they dont move.
Potentially I could be mistaken and these not be bugs at all, but maybe even some sort of other beneficial/pest type organism, just cant seem to figure it out.
Any help would be great!
So about a week and a half ago, just this one acro (its just a simple green no name acro) has the bugs on it, they seem to be latching by their mouth, with the rest of the body hanging out with the current, close to, but not quite on the mouths of the polyps. There seems to be around 8 or 9 of them. So far, no viewable damage has been caused to the coral, but im starting to worry that if the numbers multiply, might actually have some issues. They are barely observable with the naked eye, yet upon closer look with an eye lupe, they become evident as not being sweeper tentacles or polyps.
Phone pic from my Galaxy S5
The picture is not great, but you can see them clearly.
They look somewhat like a copepod, just skinnier and more elongated with several appendages which seem like legs, and once they attach they dont move.
Potentially I could be mistaken and these not be bugs at all, but maybe even some sort of other beneficial/pest type organism, just cant seem to figure it out.
Any help would be great!