Elegance Coral Help

Zachvet · Jun 16, 2020

I’ve had this Elegance Coral now for about 6 months. It’s seemed to get these occasional darker/brown spots on it’s tentacles and head. They don’t seem to cause any serious distress but today I noticed what appears to be little bumps on a couple of them. Photos included with one “bump” circled. It almost looks like acne!

Has anyone seen this before?

bknope · Jun 16, 2020

Do they move? Could be red planaria/flatworms

PicassoClown04 · Jun 16, 2020

If they move PLEASE use a syringe without a needle and suck it off IMMEDIATELY I currently have an infestation of flatworms on ALL of my euphyllia that look exactly like that. If you blow a little water at them and they move away suck em out n o w.

Zachvet · Jun 17, 2020

I tried blowing some water with a little pipette and they didn’t move. The bumps seem to have gone away now but the discoloration is still there. I’ll keep an eye on it. Should I maybe do a Bayer dip just Incase?

Zachvet · Jun 17, 2020

Update: after reading this I went to check on the EC. Lights are just coming on so it’s pretty closed up. All of the “spots” are now on the body vs the tentacles. Definitely saw one move. I saw another post about dipping them every 5 days so I’ll give that a shot.

Thanks for the help here, I’d have never guessed they were worms!

Miller535 · Jun 17, 2020

I would be reluctant to dip it every 5 days. That is a lot of stress on the coral. If they are some type of worm, I would also think that they are likely in your tank in other places and not just in the elegance coral. A dip is probably fine, but I would be looker for other solutions if it were me.

Zachvet · Jun 17, 2020

Miller535 said:
I would be reluctant to dip it every 5 days. That is a lot of stress on the coral. If they are some type of worm, I would also think that they are likely in your tank in other places and not just in the elegance coral. A dip is probably fine, but I would be looker for other solutions if it were me.

Agreed - I’ll keep any eye out for more and look into other solutions. I haven’t seen any other corals impacted and I do have frogspawn so you’d think they’d like that too.

I just dipped the EC and there must have been about 30-40 worms that fell off it.

Miller535 · Jun 17, 2020

Zachvet said:
Agreed - I’ll keep any eye out for more and look into other solutions. I haven’t seen any other corals impacted and I do have frogspawn so you’d think they’d like that too.

I just dipped the EC and there must have been about 30-40 worms that fell off it.

This is purely anecdotal, but I think Elegance corals are bug and worm magnets as their skeleton structure has all of those deep channels for them to hide in. When i bought mine a few months ago I dipped it in both coral rx and bayer. And I could not believe how many worms came out of it.