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MCOOMPIE
01/10/2010, 02:39 AM
Can anyone tell me what these are on my Acro? Slowly there are growing more and more. I don't see anything coming out of them. They are hard and the texture is rough. Still there's only one coral infected.

divewsharks
01/10/2010, 07:01 AM
not positive, but looks like barnacles. does anything extend from them, like a feather in the current?

pisces4u
01/10/2010, 09:03 AM
Barnacles indeed. I have some that have been grown over by the acro flesh. I don't believe they harm the coral except when they reproduce, new barnacles will kill a single polyp and "move in" to the empty corallite.

MCOOMPIE
01/10/2010, 01:01 PM
Yep, I see the feather "hands" coming out. Do they reproduce fast?

saltygeek
01/10/2010, 01:28 PM
Maybe try to superglue the door shut.