little pieces of missing flesh

[zygote2k]

I was looking at the underside of one of my acros and noticed little pieces of missing flesh in oval like patches. Is this AEFW?

[sportzfish]

Only way to find out is to dip it in Revive or TMPCC and really find out if they fall off.

[Jon Lazar]

Sounds lilke AEFW. If you can't remove the coral to dip it, you can also blast it with a turkey baster and see if any adults come off. Can you post a good picture of the affected area?

 

Jon

[rocko918]

pic would be helpful.

[lanman]

AEFW bites are almost perfectly circular - but it's not uncommon for two bite marks to overlap - which might make an oval out of it.

 

 

bob

Edited January 24, 2010 by lanman

[zygote2k]

Here's what the areas looked like this morning. I took out the colony and dipped it in Revive for about 30 mins. When I pulled it back out, I didn't notice anything dead in the bowl except for copepods. I looked all over the base of the coral and the underside branches, but saw nothing that resembled anything that Bobs' pictures had.

[lanman]

That reminds me of the damage a furry little blue-eyed 'acropora crab' was doing to one of my corals. Revive would have killed him, too.

 

bob

[Valeria]

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[ctenophore]

I don't think that's aefw damage. The bite marks are pretty distinct on a smooth branched coral like that. They would be little white dots and you would have definitely seen some adults fall off in the dip with patches that big. Could just be low light, flow, or alkalinity (or a lesser combination of all three).

[chucelli]

was this a newly acquired specimen?

I've seen this happen as far as two weeks into acquisition due to differences in specific gravity.

-R

[steveoutlaw]

You wouldn't happen to have a yellow goby in the tank would you? That's what it looked like on my SPS when it started rubbing up against them.

[zygote2k]

couldn't find anything that resembled eggs or FW's. Searched through the others in the tank and found nothing.

[lanman]

Valeria and I were talking about this area - which looks kind of like AEFW eggs (out of focus):

 

 

 

Here are AEFW eggs in a more normal location - on the bottom of a frag plug:

 

 

bob

[zygote2k]

I'll take another look at it and tell you if I find anything.