Pest bothering frogspawn coral

[BristleWormHater]

While at work wife took a picture. Frogspawn looks alive, not in the best shape, bit alive. no signs of worms.
Got back from work and coral does seem to be alive and moving. I moved frogspawn to a less bright area for recovery.

Frogspawn has some dad lore now

 

[czternasto]

How did it turn out?
Curious to see if that worked. I’ve heard people have luck with super gluing over them to kill them.

 

[BristleWormHater]

Any updates?

 

[TheMetalReefs]

Frogspawn is alive and well. I havent seen any signs of worms coming back and the only "damaged" polyp seems to be bouncing back. Ill post pics when i get home.

I cant say how effective crazy glue would be because to my knowledge the worms just go back in and bore another hole somewhere.

I would note that something i would have done differently in the treatment is add a heater to the treated water. Dont know if that would have done a major difference but im sure it would have been less stressful for the coral going from 76ish into a water that cooled over the course of an hour then back into 76ish water.

 

[dr_vinnie_boombatz]

@ISpeakForTheSeas can they really live within astera snails? I don't see anything protruding from the shells

 

[ISpeakForTheSeas]

@ISpeakForTheSeas can they really live within astera snails? I don't see anything protruding from the shells

They can, yes - they can bore through calcium carbonate rock and skeleton, so they can bore through calcium carbonate shells as well; that said, it wouldn't make much sense for them to face inward on a shell - it would make way more sense for them to face outward. So, I would expect to see their tubes and/or their antennae sticking out from the shell like in the pics quoted below (the tubes are most visible on the bottom of the snail's shell in the second pic):

Normal snail?? Think again!

Boom…. Stealthy!

 

[dr_vinnie_boombatz]

They can, yes - they can bore through calcium carbonate rock and skeleton, so they can bore through calcium carbonate shells as well; that said, it wouldn't make much sense for them to face inward on a shell - it would make way more sense for them to face outward. So, I would expect to see their tubes and/or their antennae sticking out from the shell like in the pics quoted below (the tubes are most visible on the bottom of the snail's shell in the second pic):

Thanks, that really stinks. I have a few then on snails but non I can see on coral. @Reefahholic have you tried the dip on snails? If not, wouldn't they eventually come back to the corals?

 

[TheMetalReefs]

pics of the treated coral.

 

[BristleWormHater]

pics of the treated coral.

Nice

 

[Reefahholic]

Thanks, that really stinks. I have a few then on snails but non I can see on coral. @Reefahholic have you tried the dip on snails? If not, wouldn't they eventually come back to the corals?

Ivermectin kills the snails.

Correct, they would just come back to the corals. That was why I trashed my snails and took a huge gamble treating the entire tank which crashed it. Could have paid off huge, but that’s the way the ball bounces sometimes in reefing. Some guys came out good, and I’m still unsure how as it was so toxic in my system.

So the new plan is to restart and create a system where all the corals can easily be removed for dipping, baths, treatments, flow demands, light demands, color arrangement, etc. This way…it really doesn’t matter too much which pests enter the system. Most can easily be handled, but of course always try to prevent all the nasty ones from entering.

I’ll never let my acro’s encrust to my rocks ever again. Pegging all the corals from here on out for easy removal.


Photo credit: Coral Euphoria

Also, I’m making DIY concrete molds (I have a few different styles) that these pegs will stick into that will be shelf’s mounted to the sides of the aquascape at various heights.

Plus drilling several holes in the main scape itself for coral placement on elevated plugs so they can’t encrust on the rock.

Here’s a few pics of JCOLE’s new restart as he and I are doing the same thing basically:

Topdown view of the holes for pegging:

 

[dr_vinnie_boombatz]

Ivermectin kills the snails.

Correct, they would just come back to the corals. That was why I trashed my snails and took a huge gamble treating the entire tank which crashed it. Could have paid off huge, but that’s the way the ball bounces sometimes in reefing. Some guys came out good, and I’m still unsure how as it was so toxic in my system.

So the new plan is to restart and create a system where all the corals can easily be removed for dipping, baths, treatments, flow demands, light demands, color arrangement, etc. This way…it really doesn’t matter too much which pests enter the system. Most can easily be handled, but of course always try to prevent all the nasty ones from entering.

I’ll never let my acro’s encrust to my rocks ever again. Pegging all the corals from here on out for easy removal.

That stinks, I'm sorry your tank crashed Are you planning to add snails with the restart? I will say the ones on my snails don't seem to have travelled anywhere; the torch I have had a while now still doesn't have them.

The DIY molds is very interesting! I've structured my LPS tank in a similar method - easy to clean, dip, etc. The custom molds is something for me to consider when I upgrade again (upgraded to this tank 1 week ago)

I learned the value of QT a while back fighting some weird worms @ISpeakForTheSeas helped me identify. Thankfully got rid of them... QT everything now