What is this?!

[leighla wolf]

What is this in my Scoly and how do I get rid of it!?

 

[ISpeakForTheSeas]

Coral-boring Spionid Worms:

If they’re inside the coral, then they’re Coral-boring Spionid Worms:

Coral Boring Spionid Worms -- an ugly bane to SPS

This is not something I've ever seen before. They are extremely ugly. Mar the appearance of SPS. This is on a "Beach Bum" encrusting montipora. I would take aphasia or even montipora eating nudibranchs over this crap. I've beat those with hard work. Not sure how to eliminate these without...

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Coral Boring Spionid Worms- Anybody Killed them?

These turds have survived Bayer, Coral RX Pro, KCI, and Exodus dip. They apparently retract into their tubes, and back into the coral skeleton where they apparently are safe from the medications. Below I will post some pictures for reference. The first pic is mine, but the others are just...

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[Reefkeepers Archive]

@ISpeakForTheSeas is right, don't know about their effects in scolys or any other non-encrusting LPS, though there is one in my platygyra and he just grew around it

 

[IKD]