Coral attack - mesenterial filaments

BigBabich · Jul 1, 2023

Bowerbanki trying to eat/digest favites.
Just caught it in the act.
What should you do?
Cut the filaments?
Let it digest its neighbor in peace?
And yes I should have had them so close, I was moving stuff around this week.
I went with cutting. Unsure how that might screw up the bowerbanki health wise.

DanyL · Jul 1, 2023

I usually just blow it off with turkey buster and move one of the corals away from the other one.

I’m not sure if the remains have any lasting affects when you cut them off, but usually when I see something like this happened the damage was already been done.

Depends on the severity of the attack, I sometimes also do an Iodine dip which should prevent infections.