Hello All,
I am noticing some acros starting to pale up and show what looks like AEFW bite marks so I grabbed out a couple frags and put them under my zeiss stereomicroscope for inspection. There we zero flatworms on the frags but I did notice two things. First, the coral was putting out a lot of mesenterial filaments from odd places. Second, there was a very small arthropod looking critter with cilia all over its back ripping around. It seemed to stop and "dig" in places. I was wondering if some of the more experienced reefers have run into this critter before? I'm not sure how to embed videos so I have just included the smugmug link, please check it out.
http://www.lithicimages.com/Images/Scotts-Fishtank/n-h9jbN/i-n34mtG8/A
I am noticing some acros starting to pale up and show what looks like AEFW bite marks so I grabbed out a couple frags and put them under my zeiss stereomicroscope for inspection. There we zero flatworms on the frags but I did notice two things. First, the coral was putting out a lot of mesenterial filaments from odd places. Second, there was a very small arthropod looking critter with cilia all over its back ripping around. It seemed to stop and "dig" in places. I was wondering if some of the more experienced reefers have run into this critter before? I'm not sure how to embed videos so I have just included the smugmug link, please check it out.
http://www.lithicimages.com/Images/Scotts-Fishtank/n-h9jbN/i-n34mtG8/A