What’s living in my blasto?

[Beau_B]

So, a hermit marched over this frag (that I’ve had for months) and I saw the orange bit and thought it was a dead polyp or something.

It moves. It has antennae I think... or at least some tentacle like things.

My immediate reaction would be vermatid but it doesn’t look like any I’ve ever seen and there aren’t any in the tank (that I know of).

Normally the blasto is puffy and I don’t see this thing.

 

[JGT]

Really big spionid worm.

 

[Beau_B]

If it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck... it’s probably a duck.

Some googling has suggested not all vermatid snails look a like...

 

[king aiptasia]

it is a very large vermetid, the huge vermetus ones usually are not an issue and i seen someone had one for years with no reproduction or issue

 

[Zoa_Fanatic]

I’d glue over it and be done with it.

 

[Beau_B]

I removed it... full lancing/scrape. Fingers crossed it didn’t have any youngsters.

 

[king aiptasia]

I removed it... full lancing/scrape. Fingers crossed it didn’t have any youngsters.

it does not have any youngsters

 

[Beau_B]

It’s puffing up again... can’t even tell where it was... haha... jk. Looks like all is well.