PLEASE HELP! Odd worm like pest killing my toadstool!!

[Tzarnold161]

I have had this toadstool for about 3 months and has been doing great! It always had this thing at the base but it never affected it. Until now... It has been closed up and shriveled and leaning over for about 2 weeks now with no response. And just now noticing this thing has grown substantially. I can't find anything that looks like it and need advice on what it may be and how to save the coral!
Under blue lights it has blue/green dots on body? And about 1/2 inch long clear sweeper tentacles with white dots ends...
It is not that sensitive and will retract with severely agitated.

 

[UCF Alum]

Hydroids.
they sting and irritate coral.

turn off flow for 15 mn and cover it with aiptasia x

 

[MERKEY]

Kinda looks like a ball/glass anenome if I'm looking at the right thing lol

 

[ahiggins]

Looks like a ball anemone and a feather duster. Feather duster could possibly be a hydroids if it doesn’t shrink up right away with movement near it.

 

[NISMO703]

Looks like a ball anemone to me also. Maybe your toadstool is shedding? When my toadstool sheds it sulks and I blast it with a turkey baster to help remove some of the film.

 

[Johniejumbo]

It does look like a variety of ball anemone. I’ve never had to kill them so close to a coral. Carefully placed kalkwasser paste maybe?

 

[Tzarnold161]

Hydroids.
they sting and irritate coral.

turn off flow for 15 mn and cover it with aiptasia x

Thank you! I believe that is what it is. At least with a quick search. The only thing it seems to be mostly embeded in the coral. And is singular, and does not have the tube linking them. But will possibly try to treat with that.
Would that relatively small hydroid affect that lager sized coral though?

 

[Tzarnold161]

Kinda looks like a ball/glass anenome if I'm looking at the right thing lol

Going back on my last reply. I searched ball annenome it looks even closer to it. And solves my question with the hydroids.
But still my question is could that be taking down the whole toadstool

 

[Tzarnold161]

Looks like a ball anemone to me also. Maybe your toadstool is shedding? When my toadstool sheds it sulks and I blast it with a turkey baster to help remove some of the film.

I have tried blasting(which always has worked in the past) it's shed about 5 times already so I'm almost certain it is not a shed issue. As I have blasted several times and it's been closed and slowly sulking more over the past 2 weeks

 

[VillainzReefExotics702]

Looks like a ball nem to me

 

[Tzarnold161]

It does look like a variety of ball anemone. I’ve never had to kill them so close to a coral. Carefully placed kalkwasser paste maybe?

I have used reef clay/epoxy to cover and kill glass annenome? Would that work in the same way? And I'm not so much worried about covering it too much since it is way at the bottom on the tunk

 

[MERKEY]

Going back on my last reply. I searched ball annenome it looks even closer to it. And solves my question with the hydroids.
But still my question is could that be taking down the whole toadstool

That I would find hard to believe....

How steady are your parameters? And what do they look like?

 

[Tzarnold161]

That I would find hard to believe....

How steady are your parameters? And what do they look like?

My parameters should not have taken a swing. I will have to do tests tonight and see if something has taken a change. Saying that in terms because I have many lps and a few sps and none of that have had any change. If anything they are getting better then they have ever been