Stationary pink wiggly thing harming my Alveopora

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Photo and video attached for movement. First noticed it two weeks ago in the same position, the alveopora polyps adjacent to it are now dead. I don’t think aiptasia or manano are this color/shape and i can’t see what else it could be.

Any ideas? frag is from Ali’s shop in Anaheim.

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I cant say with 100% certainty but it looks like an aiptasia given the head and finger like extensions. Whatever it is I would make a kalkwasser paste and cover it.
 
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pulled the plug off the rocks and got a better photo. it has egg sacs attached and it has a similar shape to a berghia nudibranch.
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pulled the plug off the rocks and got a better photo. it has egg sacs attached and it has a similar shape to a berghia nudibranch.
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If you removed the plug already, can you take it out of the tank and scrape/tweeze the thing off your coral? Or dip the frag?
 
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If you removed the plug already, can you take it out of the tank and scrape/tweeze the thing off your coral? Or dip the frag?
did that right after sending my windex (too-blue) picture. i have it on a frag rack for observation, im assuming it was some sort of nudi that was hungry for LPS. i'll update this thread if they come back!
 
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Here’s a version of the previous photo that ios camera ai hasn’t butchered. Could they be monti eating nudibranchs?
 

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