Red specks on new frag?

[NancyFish]

Got our first batch of coral, we have them in a bucket before we dip them, change out their plugs and put them in qt.

This is a candy cane, I know the bottom of this is coralline; not sure if it’s worth keeping vs potential pest in QT. But the red speck things, what’s up with those? I can scrape them off but idk what they are, and if it’s sick?

 

[Tahoe61]

Are they hard?

 

[Tahoe61]

Foraminiferans?

 

[tryingtoreef]

A quick search makes me think foraminifera

 

[NancyFish]

Are they hard?

Yeah they’re a little hard, and I could scratch one off. It also had some stringy green in the water, I assume algae? Just not sure if I should put it in the same QT as the rest or treat it different

 

[Tahoe61]

Double post.

 

[Tahoe61]

Sounds like Foraminiferans, harmless. No intervention warranted

 

[NancyFish]

Sounds like Foraminiferans, harmless. No intervention warranted

You guys look rigtht, some images on google look similar under that name. Chat gpt even failed to come up with something identifiable. Thanks guys!