Boring Bivalves Can Eat Corals from the Inside!

[Reef Builders]

During our stay with the UCA team, and the few diving we made with them, we noticed that many corals, and especially Lobophyllia were showing weird holes on their polyps. After investigation, we found out that they were infested with boring clams in their skeleton. Some even getting through the polyp tissue, and the coral […]

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[cpoynter]

I bought a button scoly that has been failing to thrive while the others I already had were doing great. Then I noticed a hole in the skeleton on the area that the polyp was receding. I’d been suspecting a boring mollusk, and tonight I brought out the dremel. There were two mollusks. Hopefully the coral is able to recover.