I wonder if they will eventually kill themselves out as the tank matures (Ive been set up since Nov.) or if this will be an issue that continues and maybe even escalates in the future. There was a few pieces that floated into the water column which annoys the crap out of me because I know it’s just going to find another place to grow. Unfortunately it’s glued to my rock and has really begun to grow off of the frag plug so I couldn’t remove it and get rid of everything, but I used a pipet to loosen what I could and used tweezers to grab the rest. the zoas have been growing like a WEED but I can tell when something is irritating it because one or two polyps will close for a little while during the day and then open back up meanwhile all of my other zoas stay open 100% of the photoperiod. I had to remove some from one of my zoa frags today. I also have zoas, ricordeas, blue mushrooms, acans, and a duncan frag. Has anyone ever seen this before? This is the only coral in my tank that appears to not be at its best currently. Attached is a pic of the frag right before Coral RX was added to the dip.The white “blob” on the left side of the frag is where I glued a little digitate hydroid shut that popped up a few weeks ago. They didn’t wiggle in the water and don’t really look like worms at all with no clear anatomy - they just look like white tubes that are slightly clear.
While the coral was in the dip I sprayed it with tank water to get these tubes off and they eventually mostly fell off (except like 1 which was super hard to remove). I took the frag out to dip in Coral RX and took some pics. And today I am noticing more of these white tubular “worms” That issue has been rectified for about a month now and all of my corals are doing fantastic except this GSP has yet to bounce back. On initial introduction it did fantastic! Unfortunately in late December I suffered a pretty dramatic bacterial bloom and the GSP was not happy at all being buried in gross white bacterial growth.
I used it as kind of a proxy to watch overall tank stability after it finished the cycle, since these guys are nearly indestructible. This coral was one of the first I put in my tank after cycling. It is just a small frag, but I have noticed them more and more the last week or so, and consequently the GSP has not been opening as prominently and happy looking as it usually does so I am assuming they could be causing an issue. I am noticing an increasing amount of white tubular worms (for lack of a better word) growing within my GSP matting.
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