What is this on my Duncan?

[pm_devin]

 

[pm_devin]

Not the hermit crab, the white thing.

 

[ScottJ]

Maybe @ISpeakForTheSeas might know?

Did you dip it?

 

[commod0re]

I don’t really know for sure but it kinda looks like another duncan polyp forming to me… pic isn’t super clear so maybe another angle could help?

 

[Euphylliaphyle]

I think it's a new head forming.

 

[Mebbid]

I think there's a duncan on your duncan.

 

[pm_devin]

Maybe @ISpeakForTheSeas might know?

Did you dip it?

I did, I used Seachem dip.

 

[Tahoe61]

Limpet versus Duncan Bud imo. I suppose Barnacle might be a possibility.

 

[Mr. Mojo Rising]

A picture with better light will help, it kind of looks like a giant aptaisia to me.

 

[ISpeakForTheSeas]

Limpet versus Duncan Bud imo. I suppose Barnacle might be a possibility.

Maybe @ISpeakForTheSeas might know?

Did you dip it?

Coral-boring Barnacle - it should shoot out little, feathery appendages to rake in food like fingers closing into a fist:

That's a coral-boring barnacle; it's a filter feeder, so it's technically harmless (but large barnacles and small corals sometimes see issues).

They're usually not a problem, but they do generally cause a little, dead/deformed patch around where they're burrowed in (and that patch tends to grow as the barnacle does). It being that close to the mouth is a bit concerning to me, but I haven't seen it on enough LPS like this to know if it's an issue.

If you want to get rid of it, I'd imagine you would need to either crush it in its burrow or carefully inject something into it that would kill it - either way, you'd really want to be careful with it being in the coral.

 

[pm_devin]

It was another head.

 

[Euphylliaphyle]

It was another head.

Did you re-frag this? The skeleton and epoxy look totally different.

 

[pm_devin]

It was another head.

Did you re-frag this? The skeleton and epoxy look totally different.

I did. I just popped it off with a razor and used super glue and epoxy sandwich.

 

[ISpeakForTheSeas]

It was another head.

Neat (and informative for me) - thank you for following up!