Birdsnest -Have you seen this before?

[Gravesj1s]

Im not sure what Im looking at here anyone seen this before?

Pic below- Have you ever seen these before ? Im wondering if there some kind of eggs?



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Pic below looks alot what Ive seen others describe as bitemarks?





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zoomed in.


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[Easily Distracted]

Possibly flatworms and flatworm bite marks.

 

[Gravesj1s]

I appreaciate your response here.

I was told AEFW are only known to eat acropora.Is there another type of flatworm or bug thats known to birdsnests? Im not sure what is causing this at all.I have other sps that show no signs of anything including acropora.Water quality is stable and on par.

Just not sure what to make of it,any ideas as far as pests go?

 

[reefyourself]

I had actually the same problem with my birdsnest. Check your alkalinity. When mine had fluctuated (for some unknown reason) that happened to me...it looked like bite marks but was actually burns...now everything is A+ ok!

 

[Gravesj1s]

This is a pic of a flatworm I have found in my tank.Its really small. I have not seen this bother any corals and only seen it on the glass corners of the tank.I posted a pic in a local forum here on RC a little while back,from it I got the impression from others these are not harmful.The pic is of a frag rack to give you an idea how small these are.Pic magified 200x
Could any of you chime in on what you think is going on here,Thanks -steve

 

[Gravesj1s]

I had actually the same problem with my birdsnest. Check your alkalinity. When mine had fluctuated (for some unknown reason) that happened to me...it looked like bite marks but was actually burns...now everything is A+ ok!

Ok,hope you dont mind continuing this for a bit.
I did have a salinity issue that was corrected about 6 weeks ago.Caused by a drifting refractometer that went unnoticed until I saw my alk was low and caught it at that point.
So,it does make sense what your saying about check your alk ,however it was 6 weeks ago and I didnt think it could be the cause.Im actually hoping that is what has happened and not something else.
Do you still think this is likely the cause known it was some weeks back?

 

[reefyourself]

I had the same problem! My salinity was up at 1.032... and my alk was at 2.7meq/L... and now if you think of it... by dropping your salinity... u are diluting your aquarium as well as every single major and minor trace element includibg your alkalinity, calcium and magnesium...

As I was lowering my salinity i had to compensate for the drop to alk, cal and mag.... long process and my tank is still recovering

Oh and by the way... birdnest, pocci's and stylo dont get attacked by AEFW...

 

[reefyourself]

if i can find the pics i took of my coral ill will post the before and after with the white marks... now they completely dissapeared... if it was aefw it would have gotten worse and my other acro's would have been affected... and again to this extent.. pocci, stylo's and birdsnest are unaffected by aefw

 

[BeanMachine]

This is a pic of a flatworm I have found in my tank.Its really small. I have not seen this bother any corals and only seen it on the glass corners of the tank.I posted a pic in a local forum here on RC a little while back,from it I got the impression from others these are not harmful.The pic is of a frag rack to give you an idea how small these are.Pic magified 200x
Could any of you chime in on what you think is going on here,Thanks -steve

I think that one is alright.

 

[buy_baff]

This is a pic of a flatworm I have found in my tank.Its really small. I have not seen this bother any corals and only seen it on the glass corners of the tank.I posted a pic in a local forum here on RC a little while back,from it I got the impression from others these are not harmful.The pic is of a frag rack to give you an idea how small these are.Pic magified 200x
Could any of you chime in on what you think is going on here,Thanks -steve

Red planaria are harmless to sps. But they can get out of controle in the right conditions.

 

[hmello@bermexin]

What fish, snails, hermits etc do you have in your tank?

 

[Gravesj1s]

What fish, snails, hermits etc do you have in your tank?

Hey there:beer:

It is worth mentioning as you made note of in the URS forum I have a pygmy angel.Ididnt mention it only because I didnt want to influence any responses.I just wanted to let the pics speak for themselves.Its ok though probably best to be thorough.

Here are full specs:

Fish
2 Ocellaris Clowns
2 Helfrichi firefish
1 Centropyge argi. (pygmy angel)
I Paracanthrus Hepatus( blue hippo)
1 yashi goby & pistol shrimp pair-completey sand dwelling
1 Carribean red serpent star
1 peppermint shrimp

Snails would include- cerith,conch,brown snails,stometella astrea margarita and 2 turbo-combined about 50 or so.

Crabs I lost most after an interceptor treatment however the remaining would include blue leg and red scarlet.Combined ,maybe 10 or so.


Anything else that comes up please let me know,I posted parameters yesterday in the URS forum but Im going to retest everything again tonight.get those posted as well.
Thanks guys for all the responses-Steve

 

[Gravesj1s]

if i can find the pics i took of my coral ill will post the before and after with the white marks... now they completely dissapeared... if it was aefw it would have gotten worse and my other acro's would have been affected... and again to this extent.. pocci, stylo's and birdsnest are unaffected by aefw

Please do!Id be real interested in seeing those pics.

I hate to press my luck here but curiousity tends to get the better of me at times.
Anyway the second pic I posted I asked if it looked like some kind of eggs.I cant get a better pic but to provide better detail, it looks like blisters of the tissue.
Does this description with the pic comparable to what you noticed,too?
thanks-steve

 

[kduen]

In The second pic that you are talking about IMO it actually looks like flatworms on the coral. Wether they are AEFW or not im not sure but there is a easy way to tell if it is a worm or not. Take a wooden tooth pick (unused) and gently touch the "blisters" not with the point but more like laying a pencil down on a penny. If they curl upwards and begin to quickly move away once relieving the pressure they are worms indeed.

 

[Gravesj1s]

Took some pics whitch show what I was thinking might be some kinda eggs.After clipping all the color and zooming in.It shows a single polyps that appear to blister.I'm pretty sure now that at some point the blister peels off the skeleton.Giving the impression its bite marks.

Ive been watching the blistered areas for a few days now nothing new as far as bite marks or new blistered polyps.

Starting to think this started with from drifting refractometer even though it was around 6 weeks ago when I noticed it was at 1.021 .Guessing it just took some time for those small blistered areas to peel away.Anyway,heres the pics of what I thought might be eggs or something.

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[pascal32]

If they were worms would they move? You could shoot the same are of the coral daily and look for change...

 

[Gravesj1s]

I dont know guys Im stumped.Im going to shoot out one more set of pics here if nothing new comes from response Im given up here.


pic showing how a polyp starts to blister<------lack of a better word.

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Blistered polyp


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[pascal32]

Are these new affected areas?

 

[smtank]

Too me it almost looks like a genetic mutation, similar to cancer so to speak. For some reason the corals tissue has taken on a different type of tissue growth.

You can test the idea by trying another similar type of birdnest. If it is a pathogen the newly aquired piece should eventually begin to show the same type of symptom.

Will be interesting to see what this pans out to be.:rollface:

 

[pascal32]

Too me it almost looks like a genetic mutation, similar to cancer so to speak. For some reason the corals tissue has taken on a different type of tissue growth.

You can test the idea by trying another similar type of birdnest. If it is a pathogen the newly aquired piece should eventually begin to show the same type of symptom.

Will be interesting to see what this pans out to be.:rollface:

That's a good idea- steve, I should be able to drop off a piece to you this weekend and try my camera with a macro lens to take a picture