Help IDing this thing

[mnat]

So I bought this nice piece of blue acro and added it to our new thirty. I started to notice that the bottom was losing color when all the other frags are doing super so I turned it around and found this thing. No idea what it was so I pulled the frag, need help with ID.

 

[ds4x4]

is it solid like a tube or placid like a worm? is the purple and the green part of it or algae?

 

[mnat]

It is solid like a tube and the purple part is the end of the tube. I pulled it out and put it in a small container, I do not have much hope for it. I would rather be safe than sorry.

 

[ds4x4]

u need a scalpel maybe. i dunno what to say about that thing..

 

[mnat]

I had it in a small DTs copepod container filled with water and I noticed it had "dropped" several small things that looked like eggs on the bottom. I think I will just eat the cost of the frag (20$) and go from there. It was already starting to bleach all around where that critter was.

 

[Whitebird1]

I had something similar, it killed the frag.

 

[mnat]

I am just hoping it is the one frag and not multiple.

 

[Gecko]

Snap the top part of the Acro that looks fine and glue it to a piece of rock.

 

[mnat]

Snap the top part of the Acro that looks fine and glue it to a piece of rock.

I had not even thought of that, thank you.

 

[harryk]

did you ever figure out what it is? maybe some kind of tube worm?

 

[mnat]

I threw the thing out a few days ago. I had it in a seperate container for a few days and it started dropping things that looked like eggs to me. This scared me as I do not want to lose all of my frags.

 

[Jcurry@wesketch]

Whitebird1,
That's a brown jelly infection on your coral.

 

[Scottyrock]

kinda looks like a vermentid snail

 

[trigger99]

I had the same invader on an sps coral. It was a worm of some sort that was living there and would eat the tissue. I used a scalpel and removed the entire calcified shell, with the worm inside, and the coral is now fine.....Sometimes u can see two small antena sticking out but rarel;y the worm.

 

[ssm05rsx]

I had the same on a piece of xenia a while back, I just cut it to bits and got it out of the xenia, It was looking very good until it fell behind some of my rock work lol...