help with worm / disease identifcation

Hi all, first of all i would like to wish everyone has a Happy New Year.
Upon inspecting my tanks and rocks today, i noticed 1 stem of my Candycane
coral is not opening and when i checked behind it, i noticed something was
growning behind it.

the body looks like a white snail body ( with a red flower that opens up at
the end ), it's tiny, about 3 mm in size. I am sure it's one of the common
disease or worm but don't know whether it's harmful, how to treat it or
don't even know what it's called so i don't know what to research on the
internet.

if one of you out there can identify and tell me what it is, i will be very
much appreciated.
i took a picture with my digital camera but doesn't focus well and i am not
sure whether i can post pic in this newsgroup. so if you want to look at
the pic, i can send it to you.

thx in advance for any help.

Is it a small white calcerous tube, hard to the touch? The
red flower is like a tiny featherduster? If so, it is a
harmless filter feeder. Here is another kind. Realize,
this is a tiny dot, but with macro photography it looks big.
For a point of reference, this dot was on the outside of
a test tube and you even see the edges of the tube. Yes, it
is *that* small.

http://melevsreef.com/id/spirorbid_worms.html

Marc


Nighthawk wrote:
Hi all, first of all i would like to wish everyone has a Happy New Year.
Upon inspecting my tanks and rocks today, i noticed 1 stem of my Candycane
coral is not opening and when i checked behind it, i noticed something was
growning behind it.

the body looks like a white snail body ( with a red flower that opens up at
the end ), it's tiny, about 3 mm in size. I am sure it's one of the common
disease or worm but don't know whether it's harmful, how to treat it or
don't even know what it's called so i don't know what to research on the
internet.

if one of you out there can identify and tell me what it is, i will be very
much appreciated.
i took a picture with my digital camera but doesn't focus well and i am not
sure whether i can post pic in this newsgroup. so if you want to look at
the pic, i can send it to you.

thx in advance for any help.



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Yes that sounds and looks exactly like you have described and in the
picture.

Except some of them are not spiral ( especially those that attach to the
rocks ), the are a bit bigger ( about 1/8th of an inch long ) and straight.
but do definitely match your description.

thx again for the help, marc.
"Marc Levenson" wrote in message
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Is it a small white calcerous tube, hard to the touch? The red flower is
like a tiny featherduster? If so, it is a harmless filter feeder. Here is
another kind. Realize, this is a tiny dot, but with macro photography it
looks big. For a point of reference, this dot was on the outside of a test
tube and you even see the edges of the tube. Yes, it is *that* small.

http://melevsreef.com/id/spirorbid_worms.html

Marc


Nighthawk wrote:
Hi all, first of all i would like to wish everyone has a Happy New Year.
Upon inspecting my tanks and rocks today, i noticed 1 stem of my
Candycane coral is not opening and when i checked behind it, i noticed
something was growning behind it.

the body looks like a white snail body ( with a red flower that opens up
at the end ), it's tiny, about 3 mm in size. I am sure it's one of the
common disease or worm but don't know whether it's harmful, how to treat
it or don't even know what it's called so i don't know what to research
on the internet.

if one of you out there can identify and tell me what it is, i will be
very much appreciated.
i took a picture with my digital camera but doesn't focus well and i am
not sure whether i can post pic in this newsgroup. so if you want to
look at the pic, i can send it to you.

thx in advance for any help.

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