Pest on elegance coral

[xyousefb]

Hello,

I turned on the lights in my room after about 5 hours that they’ve been off, and I saw this little thing with its legs out from the coral’s skeleton. Does anyone know what this might be?

I caught it removing some detritus from the inner crevice of the skeleton and throwing it out into the water flow.

 

[Eric Cohen]

I have found Gall Crabs on Elegance before....check that out.

 

[Cali Reef Life]

That looks like a brittle starfish arm. Most are good cuc members. Look it up there are a lot of different kinds of them.

 

[vetteguy53081]

Appears to be a star

 

[EeyoreIsMySpiritAnimal]

Micro brittle star