A new Acropora eating pest? We caught these in our QT eating Acropora.

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We noticed a couple of our acropora corals in our QT having some STN while others looked great. We have both Indo and Aussie colonies for about 4 months in our QT acclimating and going through dips (5 weeks of bayer) and apparently these guys were unphased by that.
We Flipped a couple over and saw some egg masses where the tissue was receding. We scraped a couple of those off with a razor and put them under the scope. Here are a couple of pictures. To the naked eye, they look like little black dots, which is probably their 2 sets of eyes. Anyone ever seen these? Videos under 400x and pictures under 40x.
 

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We noticed a couple of our acropora corals in our QT having some STN while others looked great. We have both Indo and Aussie colonies for about 4 months in our QT acclimating and going through dips (5 weeks of bayer) and apparently these guys were unphased by that.
We Flipped a couple over and saw some egg masses where the tissue was receding. We scraped a couple of those off with a razor and put them under the scope. Here are a couple of pictures. To the naked eye, they look like little black dots, which is probably their 2 sets of eyes. Anyone ever seen these? Videos under 400x and pictures under 40x.
Couple of stills as well.
Pest 2.jpg
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