My Favia's Killer Tentacles

[reeftankdude]

I have seen them longer and attached to a near coral.

 

[Karen00]

Did the other coral show signs of being stung? Coral warfare is a remarkable thing!

 

[reeftankdude]

Did the other coral show signs of being stung? Coral warfare is a remarkable thing!

Yes but not from the favia. There was an aiptasia behind the coral that did some damage. I think the favia had just attached it's tentacle to it. I now have three peppermint shrimp putting a good hurting on the aiptasia.

 

[Mikedawg]

I have seen them longer and attached to a near coral.

Ha ha, even scared your dottyback back into its hole!

 

[Karen00]

Yes but not from the favia. There was an aiptasia behind the coral that did some damage. I think the favia had just attached it's tentacle to it. I now have three peppermint shrimp putting a good hurting on the aiptasia.

Aiptasia... The scourge of the reefkeeping world!

 

[thamnasteroid]

that actually looks like a dipsastraea, not a favia.

 

[HBtank]

Yeah put a goni next to one yesterday and saw sweepers the next day and of course it got moved again. Pretty aggressive IME.