Help identifying...aptaisa??

[bizzynewreefs]

Not sure what I've found all over my new coral...but glad I quarantined...anybody help me indentifybwhat this is? Is rettracts quickly...pest? Not a pest? Seems to be multiple on every frag...

 

[TehBrainz]

Feather duster!

If you move your hand or tweezers or something over it, it should shoot back into its tube super quickly. Beneficial hitchhiker!

 

[Gtinnel]

It looks like some kind of tube worm to me. It’s not aiptasia.

 

[bizzynewreefs]

Feather duster!

If you move your hand or tweezers or something over it, it should shoot back into its tube super quickly. Beneficial hitchhiker!

Yes it retracts very fast when I approach the tank...so not a huge worry pest wise and safe to be in mixed reef?

 

[bizzynewreefs]

Also, there seems to be around 5-6 on one small frag, they won't drown out my zoas will they?

 

[TehBrainz]

not a worry AT ALL.

Completely reef safe. As the zoa grows out the little feather worms may keep extended between polyps

 

[TehBrainz]

Also, there seems to be around 5-6 on one small frag, they won't drown out my zoas will they?

no, if anything the zoa's would be more likely to drown out the feather worm.