ID this please killed my zoas. :/

[Rob&Gab]

Its the little thing to the left. it has a skeleton i tried scraping it to kill it nothing is working for this guy. but it killed one of my colonys of red hornets.......... 20p of them this stupid thing needs to go now.!

 

[FishLipz]

Almost looks like a tiny Gonipora. They are nasty corals to tangle with if you happen to be it's neighbor. The white tips on the tentacles are supercharged stinging cells.

 

[Rob&Gab]

i remember when i got it there was like nothing there and over time its getting bigger and bigger. it killed all the red hornets on that plug.....

 

[Mike J.]

It's an Alveopora and I think I'd rather have it than the Zoas. But to each his/her own.

 

[Muney Mun]

It looks like sum galexa on that plug but maybe not seen it right

 

[Muney Mun]

Never mind enlarged it it is either goni or alvepora

 

[Rob&Gab]

But why did it kill my red hornets.?? and it poped out of no where this thing.?!?!? so weird.!

 

[NanaReefer]

Cover it with a thick Kalk paste....will burn the tissue.


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[FishLipz]

It killed your hornets because it's competing for space. The hornets were too close so it simply exterminated the competition. As far as it not being there before, it may have just been retracted and gone unnoticed or perhaps it's just grown from a seed.

 

[kacrocorals581]

I say galaxia nasty stinging machine

 

[Rob&Gab]

what ever it is its encrusting and killing my zoas.

 

[GHill762]

+1 to baby galaxia. They're beautiful but gnarly. An adult galaxia will send sweepers 6+ inches away from the colony. Love em and hate em.

 

[Rob&Gab]

here is a picture when the lights went off i just snapped this. so its closed up right now.

 

[teddy13]

me personally i love gonis and alve's so i would pull the zoa's off the plug and move them and let the goni grow

 

[ritter6788]

Looks like a Pocillapora to me. They can reproduce in tanks and end up in places like that. Who ever you got it from likely has a Pocillapora colony in their tank.

 

[ReeferBen]

Why not just split the plug? Keep both and mount the LPS away from the zoas?

Thats what I would do.

 

[kschweer]

If you don't want to split the plug just cover it with some coral glue. Should do the trick.

 

[akitareefer]

I agree with pocillapora, they reproduce easily in tanks.

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[larangcon]

+1 on splitting the plug, looks like an pocillapora to me too.

 

[Rob&Gab]

alright im gonna split the plug and let it bee. ill let it grow That was one of my first frags i had it was a Red hornet colony. Now its a almost no hornet colony ill try to find a before photo.