Acropora, parisites??? Help!

[Chrisd143]

I've started noticing these little bumps showing up. I cant see any bugs or anything. Can someone look at the pictures and give some advice please. The coral seems to be growing good and doing fine. Just bumpy.

 

[AcroNem]

I don't see anything immediately wrong with this coral, what are the little bumps you're seeing?

 

[drawman]

I think the "bumps" you're talking about are radial corallites if I'm understanding you correctly. Acros have many different growth patterns and this is very normal.

 

[Reeffraff]

I don't see anything immediately wrong with this coral

I agree. Seems fine to me.

 

[Chrisd143]

 

[Chrisd143]

This might be a better picture. Just little bumps all over and no polyp extension either. I have ever seen any polyp extension.

 

[SyracuseMatt]

Doesn't seem to be anything wrong. Acro eating flatworms will take bites out of coral, not create added bumps on corals (except for eggs on the underside).

Matt

 

[drawman]

I have had a "bubbling" disease that you can look up and the causative agent doesn't seem to be well defined other than suspicion of it being bacterial. In my case it did seem to be pathogenic and move from one coral to the next after being introduced from a single frag.

This coral does not appear to have that to me but maybe you can see things that the photo doesn't show. Again I really think you're just seeing the growth pattern with radial corallites. Some smoother skin acros just don't naturally show a lot of PE. Other factors could make that worse such as nipping fish. If it's growing all looks well to me.

 

[Chrisd143]

Thank you everyone! Much appreciated

 

[Reeffraff]

OK, when I zoom in on the last picture I think I see what you are talking about. Do the 'bumps' move if you watch them long enough? Red bug copepod parasites are common acro pests but there are other harpacticoid copepod species that infect acros that can range in color from light tan to black.

 

[Chrisd143]

OK, when I zoom in on the last picture I think I see what you are talking about. Do the 'bumps' move if you watch them long enough? Red bug copepod parasites are common acro pests but there are other harpacticoid copepod species that infect acros that can range in color from light tan to black.

No I dont think there moving