Well hopefully not an amphipod because it’s dead now :/
Dips kill the good and the bad. It's a choice you have to make. Hair worms are also beneficial detritivores.
I don't want to harp on the previous thread, but one big one is not thermonuclear dipping in freshwater for 5 minutes. I'm a visual inspection person over a dip person. I dipped corals a long time ago, but dipping is a pretty contentious topic in reef aquaria. I personally run pest eaters and know what to look for with hitchhiker nems and bubble algae(dips don't even really do much for algae outside peroxide). In general the people you see most diligent about dipping are people trying to avoid species specific pests like zoanthid eating nudibranchs, zoanthid spiders, montipora eating nudibranchs, acropora eating flatworms, red bugs, euphylia eating flatworms, and black bugs. Also looking to avoid certain pest flatworms like red planaria. Others dip to remove things like amphipods, bristleworms, and asterina stars which could arguably be considered good but the reefer doesnt like. For a single headed zoa on a clean frag and a tiny acan colony I wouldnt worry a whole lot.
Yeah I thought I did some on the fly research and had a useable although maybe not recommended solution to not having any dip, mistake made and lesson learned. Hopefully both frags will survive and come around in a couple days, im confident. And like you hopefully after a few more coral purchases I can learn what to look for as well and not be so reliant on a dip.
Reefing is all about learning! That's the right mentality.
May be either an amphipod or a baby spaghetti wormBought my first two corals today! A utter chaos Zoa and a favia. Performed a freshwater dip and actually had a good amount of critters come offthem. One was too small to really photograph but this one was living in something resembling a tiny Vermitid snail and didn’t come out until I shook the coral around in the freshwater. The others looked similar to this just mutch smaller. Any help??
