Leather Coral bitten?
Hi–I have a 180 gallon reef tank with about 300 lbs of live rock, 1 yellow tang, 1 blue hippo tang, a flame angel, a harlequin Sweetlips, a royal Gramma, a firefish, a neon Dottyback, a lawnmower blenny, a six line wrasse, a cleaner wrasse, a marine Betta and two clown fish. I also have two skunkback cleaner shrimp and a coral banded shrimp. I have a number of corals and Ricordea, and recently purchased a beautiful yellow leather coral. I noticed what looked like a small featherduster-type of worm in an adjacent rock, and when the coral was fully open, it would cover the worm. I’ve had this coral about a month, and in the past week I’ve noticed it curling up where the worm is, and now that part looks a sickly brown. I moved the rock with the worm so they are no longer able to touch one another, but wondered if it is possible the worm stung the coral. My other corals look fine and water is good, including Ca. I have 600W of PC lighting.
