Weird acropora growth????

[DEWreefing]

So I have this coral and a few others that grow these sharp points an not nubs. WHATS GOING ON HERE?

 

[DesertReefT4r]

Is that area getting blasted with high flow?

 

[Graffiti Spot]

Looks like the acro has filter feeders encrusted in it to me.

 

[DEWreefing]

Is that area getting blasted with high flow?

Not getting blasted at all

 

[DEWreefing]

Looks like the acro has filter feeders encrusted in it to me.

It was a flat base at first then these little spiky shoots poped up when the that started to take off.

 

[Camaro Show Corals]

What powerheads are you running?

 

[DEWreefing]

What powerheads are you running?

4 jebao pp-20, 2 neptune wav, & 2 jebao WP-15 top corners back corners and back wall. Return is a jebao dct 15,000

 

[Camaro Show Corals]

4 jebao pp-20, 2 neptune wav, & 2 jebao WP-15 top corners back corners and back wall. Return is a jebao dct 15,000

Do they pulse or have random flow? Or is it constant

 

[DEWreefing]

Do they pulse or have random flow? Or is it constant

Random flow

 

[Epic Aquaculture]

Could be Vermetid snails growing in the coral.

 

[OKCorals]

So I have this coral and a few others that grow these sharp points an not nubs. WHATS GOING ON HERE?

Skip to 7:40 in this video:


It shows that different lighting and flow can alter the way the coral grows. It could be an explanation for what is happening here.

 

[Graffiti Spot]

Could be Vermetid snails growing in the coral.

Yup vermi or just thoes little filter feeders that have the two clear tentacles that stick out the end I see poke out of acros like that all the time.

Op check the end of the wierd growth for filter feeder looking stuff.

 

[DEWreefing]

Yup vermi or just thoes little filter feeders that have the two clear tentacles that stick out the end I see poke out of acros like that all the time.

Op check the end of the wierd growth for filter feeder looking stuff.

Not vermin snails it was fully encrusted those showed up after.

 

[DEWreefing]

It's even happening to this one now. I'll get a better picture when I get home

 

[Foothill Corals]

Not vermin snails it was fully encrusted those showed up after.

That's what the small ones do.

V. snails were my first thought when I saw this yesterday. The more pics you show just confirms my suspicion.

 

[DEWreefing]

That's what the small ones do.

V. snails were my first thought when I saw this yesterday. The more pics you show just confirms my suspicion.

I have never seen vermid snail in my tank. I broad cast reef roids and no nets of mucus ever.

 

[DEWreefing]

If you look around the whole backside of the corals they are all facing the same way.

 

[Foothill Corals]

If you do not have any in the tank then i'm probably wrong.

FYI I've never seen a mucus net from the small ones in my tank.

 

[MTBake]

I see this when a coral grows over vermetid snails.

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[DEWreefing]

I see this when a coral grows over vermetid snails.

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Seen that in my last tank but did a fresh restart and was anal with this tank.