Hammer Coral stony section eaten?

[Andrewrckt]

Hello,

I placed a frogspawn coral in my tank last week. I flipped it around today and noticed some oddity. I am not sure if it’s being eaten or this is where the frag was cut.

Parameters are stable and normal, so I am expecting this may either be external critters or I missed this when I placed it in last week (I am hoping the latter).

I have 2 clowns, a damsel and a six lined wrasse in the tank with hermits and snails. I see a hermit around the base of it now, so curious if anyone has experience with hermits eating the stony parts of these.

I am going to continue to monitor for further development. The polyps were fully extended out today and have been for the last two weeks which is why I don’t think I noticed it. The base was covered all day. Thoughts?

sorry the title says hammer Cora. It’s right next to the frogspawn, so it was in my mind when typing the header.

 

[C. Eymann]

Thats where it was clipped, just the inside matrix of the corals theca/ skeletal structure.
No need to be alarmed.

 

[Andrewrckt]

Just did a dip in Coral RX and brightwells Medicoral and found a small flatworm (I think).

and thanks for the reply! I felt like it was better to be safe a dip than be sorry. And I found something in it.

Thats where it was clipped, just the inside matrix of the corals theca/ skeletal structure.
No need to be alarmed.