Aipstasia on hammer coral

[Walts O]

I noticed what looked like an aipstasia on one of the heads of my hammer coral, I just got the coral. A small tube runs up the the skeleton from the base of the coral and ends at one of the heads were what looks like an aipstasia to me. Can an aipstasia form on a hammer coral this way, I took it out of my tank its been in my tank less than a week should I be worried about an aipstasia problem. Any imput would be appreciated

 

[redfishbluefish]

When you say "tube" it sounds more like a vermetid snail.....a snail that doesn't move, but builds a hard tube. Also, I don't believe aptasia would live on the head of a hammer....on the base, yes.


Anyway, if it is an aptasia attached to the base, pull the coral out of your tank and use an old toothbush to bush it off.

 

[Walts O]

It is not a snail I watched it retract into the tube and then I kept watching it and it came out again

 

[mlivvy]

It sounds like a tube worm. I have them on my frogspawn.

Does it look like this?..

 

[redfishbluefish]

Aptasia are all soft....no tube. Could it be a feather duster? They live in tubes.

 

[twilliard]

aiptasia do not live in tubes

 

[Walts O]

The tube is attached to the skeleton it's nit a seperate tube I guess it could be feather duster