ID anyone? These popped up in a Acro frag.

Reefahholic · Feb 26, 2023

Pretty sure they came in with some Florida LR.

These pics aren’t mine, but it is the exact same. They survived Bayer and Coral RX pro. I broke their tubes and basted the frag good, but they didn’t die. Did 15 min in each. I’m pretty sure their some sort of barnacle filter feeder. I don’t believe they are too harmful, but I bet they will stunt the growth if not managed.

If anybody knows what they are or how to kill them let me know.

Photo Credit: preef

Reeflix · Feb 26, 2023

the was this thread that is going on about coral boring spionod worms... not an sps expert so i have no idea

Reefahholic · Feb 27, 2023

Reeflix said:
the was this thread that is going on about coral boring spionod worms... not an sps expert so i have no idea

Yeah, these guys.?

Photo Credit: @PSXerholic

I have these turds. Not sure if their the same.

sculpin01 · Feb 27, 2023

Someone has tested it and these are susceptible to ivermectin treatment...but outside of the main tank, with a 24 decontamination stop, and there was some coral morbidity. They appear to be resistant to other dips.

Reefahholic · Mar 23, 2023

sculpin01 said:
Someone has tested it and these are susceptible to ivermectin treatment...but outside of the main tank, with a 24 decontamination stop, and there was some coral morbidity. They appear to be resistant to other dips.

24 hr decontamination stop? What you mean? You can’t rinse it well and put the coral back in the tank.?

Can you grab the link and data if you know where it is. I know one guy did it, but he’s not responding?

sculpin01 · Mar 23, 2023

I mean a 24 hour decontamination stop in a tank with active carbon filtration or your snails, crabs, shrimp. isopods, amphipods, copepods, etc. will be dead/severely affected. The first time I tried this, I dipped for 1 hour, washed the corals off in 5 gallons of fresh sea water, and put them back in the tank. The next morning all of my crabs were dead, snails were near death, and no pods anywhere to be found. I did save a fair number of the larger snails (small snails all died) by placing them in a bucket with a bag of carbon and an airstone for a week but everything else was dead.