Hello all,
I am very new to the reefing hobby. After finding R2R while looking for advice for building my 150G freshwater setup I have been bitten by the reef bug. I have changed course and will be making the 150G a reef setup instead of a Discus tank.
However, I couldn’t even wait for the 150 project to be complete so I went ahead and made a 10G into a nano reef until the 150 is ready.
I ordered some coral frags from WWC, one of them being a Xenia who did not survive shipping. With good hopes in mind I put the tremendously weakened Xenia in the tank and removed the parts that died off, which is now just a frag plug. This morning I noticed a very small (about 1/2 the size of a pencil tip) growth off the side of the now otherwise empty frag plug. At first I was excited thinking that a very small part of the Xenia survived but the more I look the more I am thinking it is aiptasia.
Can anybody help confirm before I toss it? There is a very zoomed in picture attached.
I am very new to the reefing hobby. After finding R2R while looking for advice for building my 150G freshwater setup I have been bitten by the reef bug. I have changed course and will be making the 150G a reef setup instead of a Discus tank.
However, I couldn’t even wait for the 150 project to be complete so I went ahead and made a 10G into a nano reef until the 150 is ready.
I ordered some coral frags from WWC, one of them being a Xenia who did not survive shipping. With good hopes in mind I put the tremendously weakened Xenia in the tank and removed the parts that died off, which is now just a frag plug. This morning I noticed a very small (about 1/2 the size of a pencil tip) growth off the side of the now otherwise empty frag plug. At first I was excited thinking that a very small part of the Xenia survived but the more I look the more I am thinking it is aiptasia.
Can anybody help confirm before I toss it? There is a very zoomed in picture attached.