jessezm
Well-Known Member
Haaaalp! I recently had a very large acro colony stop showing its polyps and eventually started to STN on the underside and in the middle some. I assumed it was a flow issue or starvation, so I moved it to better flow and turned off the biodenitrator (nitrates were always undetectable but now I've got them up to about .5ppm) and upped my feeding and dosing of Reef Energy A and B.
Losses spread to a few other colonies and I started to freak out. I inspected as carefully as I could for AEFW and never could spot any. but I am afraid I either have that or the dreaded "Black Bugs" whatever they are... So far have not successfully found what I thought were the telltale egg clusters but I have also noticed on some of the dead skeleton this tiny, 1mm worm looking creatures that move kind of like leaches. Too small for a photo unfortunately... There are a few on the underside of my red dragon frag plugs and that is one of the corals affected. But I did finally get a picture of something that look pretty darned suspicious...
Can anyone give me a positive ID on this (close up is for ID, the other photo is for size reference). I am eagerly awaiting (dreading) your responses!
Losses spread to a few other colonies and I started to freak out. I inspected as carefully as I could for AEFW and never could spot any. but I am afraid I either have that or the dreaded "Black Bugs" whatever they are... So far have not successfully found what I thought were the telltale egg clusters but I have also noticed on some of the dead skeleton this tiny, 1mm worm looking creatures that move kind of like leaches. Too small for a photo unfortunately... There are a few on the underside of my red dragon frag plugs and that is one of the corals affected. But I did finally get a picture of something that look pretty darned suspicious...
Can anyone give me a positive ID on this (close up is for ID, the other photo is for size reference). I am eagerly awaiting (dreading) your responses!
