JPMagyar
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So for the last couple weeks I have been inspecting my tank with a Oogles Mesoscope on account of the fact that I had AEFWs and treated my tank by taking it apart, dipping all my corals in Bayer insecticide and then putting the corals back with new live rock, but all that is secondary.
As part of my routine inspection I noticed a small white filamentous "thing" hanging off my Oregon Tort frag 3 days ago on Jan. 20th. First I tried using a turkey baster to blow it off the coral thinking that it was just a piece of detritus. It would not come off with gentle basting. I then used tweezers to remove it and an eraser to gently scrub off the little white bits that were left. The area where it had been attached had a small hole in the surface of the coral. With the naked eye it appeared as a tiny white dot on the frag. Under the mesoscope it was a filament hanging on to an are of damage. I thought maybe the coral had been bumped and damaged the day prior when I was fragging my Purple Monster the day earlier so at first when I saw that it wasn't simple detritus I was thinking perhaps it some sort of coral "bleeding" or self repair mechanism. Anyways, after I removed the white filament I rechecked the coral the following day. The hole or damaged area was completely healed.
Since then I have been scouring my tank for similar filaments and I have identified at least two others. One is too far away to get a good look, but one is on a frag close to the side so I got a picture. It's very small but you can clearly see that there is an area of damage surrounding this filamentous thing.
Has anyone seen this before? Does anyone have any idea what it is?
Thanks!
As part of my routine inspection I noticed a small white filamentous "thing" hanging off my Oregon Tort frag 3 days ago on Jan. 20th. First I tried using a turkey baster to blow it off the coral thinking that it was just a piece of detritus. It would not come off with gentle basting. I then used tweezers to remove it and an eraser to gently scrub off the little white bits that were left. The area where it had been attached had a small hole in the surface of the coral. With the naked eye it appeared as a tiny white dot on the frag. Under the mesoscope it was a filament hanging on to an are of damage. I thought maybe the coral had been bumped and damaged the day prior when I was fragging my Purple Monster the day earlier so at first when I saw that it wasn't simple detritus I was thinking perhaps it some sort of coral "bleeding" or self repair mechanism. Anyways, after I removed the white filament I rechecked the coral the following day. The hole or damaged area was completely healed.
Since then I have been scouring my tank for similar filaments and I have identified at least two others. One is too far away to get a good look, but one is on a frag close to the side so I got a picture. It's very small but you can clearly see that there is an area of damage surrounding this filamentous thing.
Has anyone seen this before? Does anyone have any idea what it is?
Thanks!