What should I do with this frags ? What is on them ?

[Teddy99]

Hi, while moving corals from my old tank to the new one I noticed 3 things on my corals. Please help me and Tell me what would you do with those frags.

Caulastrea:
Grey Tubes on the Skeleton. They Are kinda soft and sag when moving the frag out of the Water and are directly below the coral Skin.

Zoanthus:

Some Kind of hairy algae on this frag I had for 2 month.

Euphyllia:
Same as Caulastrea

 

[Mr. Mojo Rising]

The tubes on the hammer are vermatid worm tubes. They are mostly safe but annoying and they can multiply, you can break the tubes at the base to kill the worms. Its almost impossible to fully avoid getting vermatids in your tank.

The zoa's look like they have a little bit of algae growing, you can dip the frag in a mix of saltwater and peroxide, the peroxide will kill the algae almost immediately and shouldn't bother the zoa's, the zoa's will be closed for a day but should open up. Or if its just one spot, you can apply peroxide directly on the algae. Peroxide is not for all corals, but for zoa's and pally's it works well.

 

[ChrisPchef]

The tubes are vermited. Buy some bumble bee snails to eat them.

 

[Teddy99]

Thank you I will but some bumble new snails.

 

[mfinn]

I think I read that you can break the tubes off, then cover them with superglue?
I have not done this before, although I see the tubes through out my lps tank.

 

[Teddy99]

I broke most of them, but even if this does not help, I will get some of the snails. Cant hurt to try some different things. And until now they dont seem to bother my corals.