Ick and invertebrates

[shane reef]

Do I need to worry about ick entering my tank from invert, corals, etc?

 

[Dmorty217]

Yes, ich won't host inverts and corals but the cysts can be present on anything wet so a 12 wk QT of inverts and corals is highly recommended.

 

[ThRoewer]

Can they be present on a freshly fragged piece of coral that has no dead spots = all surfaces (except the fresh cut/break) are covert by living coral tissue?

 

[Spar]

Can they be present on a freshly fragged piece of coral that has no dead spots = all surfaces (except the fresh cut/break) are covert by living coral tissue?

im not 100% this has been proven, but in theory yes even on tissue would be possible I'd think. even that tissue has a hard back-plate to it that would lend a cyst from forming, IMO.

i put all my coral through 12 week isolation QT. generally I don't lose any, but for some odd reason my newest coral pieces had 3 of them die on me... not sure what I did wrong this time...

 

[ThRoewer]

I don't think it is possible for a cryptocaryon protomont to encyst on or for a tomont to actually stay attached to living tissue of an SPS coral like an Acropora or Seritopora . The coral would either slime it off or overgrow and kill it.

Leather corals and stolonifera are a different story as they often have overgrowth of algae and the like on their bases or hard needles where something could attach.