montipora capricornus eating worm???

[David MC Lee]

Hello: One of my montipora capricornus started to turn a different color and looked like it had dead spots. For fear of monti eating Nudibranchs i pulled the coral from the tank. Now my purple monti is showing the same signs. This does not look like Nudibranchs to me. Never hac a monti eating nudi but from pics on the net its not the same thing. These worms will retract back into the coral when you touch them. I would say they are only about .1" long at most. Very hard to see I can not see them in the tank. What to look for is you will also see small very white round blobs near them. May be eggs?

Anyone know what they are. I grew the 1" monti into an 18" monti in the last two years.

<img src=http://reefcentral.com/gallery/data/500/5434monti_worm.JPG>

 

[GrassLandReefer]

Holy smokes hat good green thumbin',I how ever can't help with the worm ID I've never seen them....:$

 

[Ti]

dip it in iodine

 

[David MC Lee]

So no one has seen this before?

It hard to remove this coral. Here is a pic from 6 months ago
<img src=http://reefcentral.com/gallery/data/500/5434DSCN4944.JPG>

 

[Jeffie]

Wow- hopefully you can figure something out so you don't lose those beautiful caps!

 

[tigerarmy40]

wow! that sucks....I have never seen or heard of monti eating worms!have you attempted to blow them off with a power head and siphon them off?