Aptasia Suspected for Murder

[JiminyCat]

I have a small piece of Fiji rock with a single candy cane polyp and several beautiful zoos. Over the last week, I've noticed the candy cane coral and zoos close and shrink while other LPS and soft corals do fine. This evening I noticed a small aptasia in a crevice near both these corals which I promptly condemned to a dose of Aptasia-X!. Am I correct to suspect the aptasia of coral-i-cide? Its tentacles didn't appear to reach as far as those two animals. Can they extend their reach to sting?


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[reefaddictionrx]

With what sounds like multiple corals involved, I would guess it is related to something else. Although seeing aptasia tentacles in my tank makes me cringe, I haven't seen them act as "mass murderers" - especially not moving from coral to coral in search of a kill.

How long had you had the caulastrea in the tank?

If you would have said you noticed the aptasia next to the candy cane with noticeable coral recession/death I would say it was plausible! But I haven't witnessed aptasia/caulastrea interaction. Usually when I've seen it on a frag plug of zoas, the stalk is in between or next to zoas with no noticable effect IMO. I stick a dab of superglue over the closed up aptasia and pray that it is gone.