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MaccaPopEye
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I'm not 100% sure, however I am pretty certain that the cause of all of my woes was (and still is) vermatid snails.
A couple of months ago I added a single hammer coral polyp to the tank (very well inspected before it was added). All parameters stable as a rock and have been for months. It looked fine for about 2 weeks and then went downhill quickly. I pulled it out and what do you know, there was a fresh vermatid snail on it. I snipped it off and put the coral back in and it survived for another few weeks before one of my fish knocked it down onto the sand bed either during or just before I went away for a week. When I got back I flipped it back over but it wasn't in good shape and died a couple of days after that (I hadn't secured it as I wanted to be able to remove it to inspect it whenever I needed to).
The issue I had also ended up killing a lot of zoas and mushrooms, but not all. I do have a fair few mushrooms and a few zoas now and all have been doing fine for months, and I have checked and there are no vermatids on the rocks that they are on.
I'll be pulling my scape apart in the next few months and will be going over every single rock with a fine tooth comb. Hopefully I can find the large "mother" vermatid that constantly breeds and makes more and also crush as many of the small ones as I possibly can. I doubt I will ever be free of them but after I do that I might give some LPS another go (although I suspect my scribbled angel will develop a taste for it knowing my luck)
