Weird looking pest and dying torch

Leadfooted · Jun 9, 2017

What in the heck is this attached to my torch. In person the base resembles an anemone but it has feather looking tips and looks like they have a web or slime that comes out similar to vermetid snail.

All other corals are fine and growing. The torch seems to reach out with more of it's base and shortens it's tentacles versus they way it was for a year or so when it grew. It use to have a short base and stretch out it's tentacles. Is this possible Nutrient or possible wants more feedings?

Can I just Dip this (Bayer method) to kill the pest?

And this is my other torch, also with short tentacles and wide base.

cloak · Jun 9, 2017

Foraminiferans.

https://www.lionfishlair.com/hitchhikers-guide/

saltyfilmfolks · Jun 9, 2017

cloak said:
Foraminiferans.

https://www.lionfishlair.com/hitchhikers-guide/

+1
looks like a live one too.

Leadfooted · Jun 13, 2017

So if these Formin's are not bad, then I'm lost on why my torch is slowly dying?

How often do you feed your Torch's and do you feed meatier foods? I've just been using Roid's and sometime mysis. It's just this one coral that's shrinking. Should I be feeding it larger pieces of food or more frequently maybe? It's getting the same as all others but this one is much larger.

saltyfilmfolks · Jun 13, 2017

If there enough food to keeep the forams alive theirs enough for the corals.
It does make no sense to have probalems with that though.

Are you running low dissolved nutints (no3 po4) Or high gfo etc?

Leadfooted · Jun 14, 2017

saltyfilmfolks said:
If there enough food to keeep the forams alive theirs enough for the corals.
It does make no sense to have probalems with that though.

Are you running low dissolved nutints (no3 po4) Or high gfo etc?

No GFO but I will check the nutrients you listed. My hammer corals are out of control with growth and my other Torch grew a new head recently. I'll check and thank you @saltyfilmfolks . ;Brb

Leadfooted · Jun 23, 2017

Leadfooted said:
No GFO but I will check the nutrients you listed. My hammer corals are out of control with growth and my other Torch grew a new head recently. I'll check and thank you @saltyfilmfolks . ;Brb

So check this out. My Blue Hippo has recently started a habit of kicking a bed shape in my gravel in the front corner of my tank. Quick story and not confirmed but here's what I think is the problem.

Blue Hipo started making sand beds every day in the same spot over the last 2-3 months.

The consistent churning up of sand , gravel and other organic material has exhausted some of the corals the near death. This is why it's most of my coral issues are all near the bottom where the consistent nuisance of substances have been flowing into the corals mouths. We believe the corals are sort of slowly chocking. I've been using a baster to blow the sand of the chalice and rocks but the hippo just kicks it all up again. Needless to say, Blue Hippo and my Oversized Foxface have out grown my tank. It's time to take them to my LFS, I'm going to do a major gravel cleaning, remove some excess rock (Still a touch of the 90's in this tank) and see how that goes. Pics below explain it all.

White specs are from the crap the blue hippo keeps kicking up