New coral shipment

[Pistol Peet]

Aptasia anemone a huge 1 on my new Wellsophyllia and little red bugs that look like pods sort of but are red anyone know if they are good or bad. Too small to get a pic i will be dipping. Also any good ways to get the Aptasia off before it goes into a tank.

 

[lapin]

Remove the frag from the plug. Toss plug. Dip the frag in something like bayer (homemade dip)

 

[Chrille26]

Hi! I cant say anything about the red bugs cause I dont have any experience with them, but for the Aiptasia I would remove the frag plug alltogether.
Dipping sounds like a good start for any other pests but I am not sure I would put a coral into my tank dipped or not if it had visible pest on it.

 

[Pistol Peet]

Remove the frag from the plug. Toss plug. Dip the frag in something like bayer (homemade dip)

Not attached to the rag gets attached to the side of the skeletal structure

 

[Pistol Peet]

 

[Pistol Peet]

Looks like it's attached rights this side of the coral

 

[toadstool_paradise]

I would scrape it off before putting it in the tank, then put a dab of superglue over the point where you removed it.

 

[Pistol Peet]

I would scrape it off before putting it in the tank, then put a dab of superglue over the point where you removed it.

Okay so I could probably carefully take a toothbrush to it and then just put the super glue on it and be safe with that one aptaisia

 

[ScottB]

Okay so I could probably carefully take a toothbrush to it and then just put the super glue on it and be safe with that one aptaisia

I would take a blade to it and shave hard. The wipe the area off. Then rinse before putting in the tank.

I don't know the skeletal structure of those. I would be tempted to use bone cutters or saw to clip off that part of the skeleton. But sometimes the skeleton can splinter which is no good.

 

[Pistol Peet]

I scraped out a pretty good with the mini flat-head screwdriver in the grooves and then filled it up with super glue