What’s happening to Acro?

[fachatga]

it’s fairly new. It’s growing and encrusting nicely but there’s this hole in the side. I did accidentally get some glue on a few spots including this area. There’s a red leafy looking thing attached to it in this hole. Any ideas what’s happening here?

 

[vetteguy53081]

Assure your calcium and alk are not low. Additionally, check for pests such as red bugs or flatworms

 

[fachatga]

Alk is 8-8.5 and cal varies from 425-440. I’ll take it out and dip it later and see what I find. Get some better pics. That’s as good as I could zoom with my phone and was a bit blurry.

 

[fachatga]

Nothing came off in dip. No signs of any worms or bugs. Tiny red thing that looked like a leaf was in the affected area. Really really didn’t look like flatworm. Was too small to get a pic of it. My phone just can’t take pic of something so small I guess. I just cut off the top and put on a new frag plug. Do you think I should just get rid of it all? But whatever was going on it seemed there was a hole forming in the skeleton.

 

[Ocelaris]

My guess a spot died and Cyrano built a home. As long as it's growing elsewhere it should over take that spot eventually, although it can be a while.

 

[fachatga]

Yeah. My gut tells me this was something harmless but I cut it off anyway. I felt it was a safer route to go because I just don’t know enough to be sure it wasn’t something that could spread. It’ll grow again.