Frogspawn problem

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so tonight after my light went out and my frogspawn started to close up I notice this white ball of flesh on the side. I have never seen it before. During the day when lights on it look great Nice a puffed up. I have had him for about 4 months and look great sense day. I tryed to get a good picture but it hard with were it is.my parameters are all good.
Temp-78
Dkh-10 (Hanna
Po4-0.03 ( Hanna
No3-5ppm (Red Sea
Cal-430 (Red Sea
Mag-1350 (Red Sea
S-1.025
Salt-RSCP
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you
First picture during the day all puffed up
Second picture is the problem

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Hmm. This is new to me. Let's see if @Humblefish can identify it as a pest or if anyone in the #reefsquad has any suggestions [emoji16]
 

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Is all that flesh from just one head? It could be trying to grow another head.... or maybe it's a nudibranch?
 

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Is all that flesh from just one head? It could be trying to grow another head.... or maybe it's a nudibranch?

It does kind of resemble a nudibranch. @TurkeyHead had one on his leather earlier this week. Looked like this:
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Is all that flesh from just one head? It could be trying to grow another head.... or maybe it's a nudibranch?
Yes that all flesh. When I got it had only one head then it split into 2 heads a couple of months ago. So all this flesh is on one head and it seems to be about the size of a dime. My first thought was it was growing a new head but it almost looks like a ball of flatworms stuck to the side.
 

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Yup.. they almost always look like a wad of squiggles. lol
 
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It does kind of resemble a nudibranch. @TurkeyHead had one on his leather earlier this week. Looked like this:
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So if you took the second picture and rolled them in a ball. That's what it would look like
 

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So if you took the second picture and rolled them in a ball. That's what it would look like

So the first picture..... I would take a net and gently scrape it off. Make sure it all falls in the net. Then you can take a closer look (And pictures[emoji6]) in a smaller container.

So what's the next step I should take?
 

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Another way to do it is if your able to remove the coral:
I pulled the coral out into a quarantine tank. Luckily it was attached to a rock on the sand. Scraped him off with a stick. And put the coral back. No problem
 

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