What made a hole in my toadstool?

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Literal hole. Some greenish tiny things too best pics i could i barely saw them.

I do have cloens that think it is home but eat a toadstool?

If you llok in and around very tiny green dots

Toadstool has been in my tank long time ...years... have other cuttings from it that look totally fine

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Literal hole. Some greenish tiny things too best pics i could i barely saw them.

I do have cloens that think it is home but eat a toadstool?

If you llok in and around very tiny green dots

Toadstool has been in my tank long time ...years... have other cuttings from it that look totally fine

20260120_180206.jpg 20260120_175920.jpg 20260120_180142.jpg 20260120_180202.jpg
Unfortunate but neat. I know a number of things will eat/burrow into corals (and sometimes both, like some corallivorous snails), but I can't say from the pics what it might be in this case.

Do the green things move? Any chance you could get a pic of one under a microscope? Is anything (like a gall crab, for instance) visible inside the hole? (I would guess not given how small it is, but it's worth asking).
 
Unfortunate but neat. I know a number of things will eat/burrow into corals (and sometimes both, like some corallivorous snails), but I can't say from the pics what it might be in this case.

Do the green things move? Any chance you could get a pic of one under a microscope? Is anything (like a gall crab, for instance) visible inside the hole? (I would guess not given how small it is, but it's worth asking).
Have no microscope and not seen anything move oddly enough. The next day the toadstool is fullyexpanded polyps and all like no big deal. I have probably 10 cuttings from 2 months ago (the main colony is where the hole was.) Dipped everything nothing but pods. Makes no sense gonna keep my eyes on it. Have a cabbage leather too no holes in it. So who knows right now.
 

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