Frogspawn parasite or growing?

[MangoB]

Have had my frogspawn for about 4-5 months now and it’s been fine it’s even gained some heads since I got it. I recently noticed this tube type thing stick off from the skeleton. It’s the thing to the left in the first two pictures. It’s hard so my first though was the skeleton was growing but I’m not too sure. Is it a parasite or is it just growing?

 

[McCarrick]

My first thought is some sort of tube worm. In my experience, when they grew, you could see some of the same flesh that's on the main head of the coral, and so under blues itll appear as a mini frog spawn. If you turn on blues and you see the same coloration, I would assume it is growing. If not, then something else. Whether its harmful or not, I'm not sure. I've never seen anything quite like that.

 

[homer1475]

Looks like a vermetid snail shell to me.

Poke at it, if it's a hard tube, most definitely a vermetid. If it's soft, I've got no idea.

 

[hds4216]

It looks like a spinoid worm or a vermitid snail to me, assuming the tube is calcareous.

 

[Softhammer]

Vermetid Crunch it up.

 

[MangoB]

Vermetid Crunch it up.

What exactly do you mean by crunch it up. Lol.

 

[homer1475]

Smash it, crunch it, fire it, anything you can do to get rid of it.

 

[hds4216]

What exactly do you mean by crunch it up. Lol.

You have to remove it. You can either physically remove it (make sure you get the base!) or you can superglue the top hole so the worm dies.