Help Id- new Vermiculata colony dying

Enrique7

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Hey fellow reefing addicts, I recently received a beautiful Vermiculata Acropora Colony and I noticed blanches dyng, every othee colony is thriving. After diopjng I noticed a bunch of fast moving critters redish in color. Placed some floating things under my scope. Don’t know if these are friends or foes. Thanks!
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Those are copepods of some variety (I haven't looked into copepod ID much at all yet), but neither of them looks particularly like the parasitic species I'm aware of; I know two species which have Acropora sarmentosa (A.K.A. Acropora vermiculata) as a host, and it's definitely not them (Xarifia pectinea and Xarifia tumorisa).

That said, there are quite a few parasitic pods, so I can't eliminate the possibility altogether, but I'd guess there's another issue with colony in question here.
 

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