Somthing eating my softys

[tittan1500]

For the last month I have noticed my brown/green button polyps have lost there little wiskers/arms/temticles used for feeding. and they now have white spots in some places. could this be evidence of nudibranches. I will also say that there is allot of small white brittle stars and a few 1 to 2 inch brown brittle stars that live in the rock.

and in the last 2 days i have noticed my green leathers have not been expanding so I looked at them in the middle of the night and they have a lot of slime that is being produced is this normal?

any ideas?

[kylesmoney]

what kind of fish and inverts do you have in he tank?

[tittan1500]

As for fish and inverts,I have

tomato clown
coral beauty
comet
astrea snails
hermit crabs


I put some of the polyps in a bath with tech D I notaced a small little flea kinda thing that was relly fast running arounf the pollyp.

And I have had a lot of small slugs/smails around the tank lateley they look like this.

about half way down the page they are called chitons
http://www.xtalworld.com/Aquarium/hitchfaq.htm

they look like a chiton but they are white or red and 2 did come off of the frags in the tech d

[kylesmoney]

i dont know, white spots are a symptom of zoapox

http://www.zoaid.com/articles004.php

people had some luck with vitamin c for that. but i am by no means any expert

[fivesmallworlds]

coral beauty could be a nipper too, but I'm not sure otherwise.

[saab340pilot]

Just discovered my camel shrimp is not reef friendly, since i moved him all my corals that started to retreat have improved!

[sabbath]

Just a thought. My urchin has eaten all my brown zoo's

[bunglito]

I thought I had zoapox once but once I bought a refractometer I realized my swing arm hydrometer was way off. Hydrometer said 1.025 and the refractometer was 1.03. Lowered my salinity and my softies went back to normal, all spots and issues went away.