Disappearing Purple Hornets

[MrX]

A little while back I traded an old Windows XP 64-bit disc to dz6t for a frag of Purple Hornets, probably 3-4 polyps from what I remember.

One day a week or two again I noticed they were all shrunken up and not opening. I thought they were just mad at being bumped or because of a change in light angle/intensity. After a few days to a week I moved it down to my frag tank to see if that helped.

This morning there was one very small, bunched up, polyp toward the outer edge of the frag plug and a bigger 'bump' in the middle, which I thought was glue or something; it was hard to the touch.

A few minutes ago I went do to check and see if my Yasha Goby came back from the dead (I tossed it in the frag tank after finding it on the floor next to the DT) and noticed the last polyp of PH was totally gone. I took the plug out of the frag tank and found:

1) When I pressed on the 'bump' in the center of the plug with a fishnet handle it popped... little pods or something came out of it. Also a worm or two (see pictures below).

2) There was a soft-shelled snail on the bottom of the plug (see picture).

Any ideas if these are the culprits? To be safe I'm thinking just toss them all.

Thanks.

 

[Turbosnail]

First that is a stomatella snail(good) and a bristle worm(good unless they get really big). FWIW purple hornets tend to die for no reason they probably died and the pods and worm were eating the dead flesh. I have seen purple hornets melt in a day have you checked your parameters?

 

[s_kelley]

I have seen it personally time and time again, the more you pay for zoa's and palys the finickyer they are, I have had a ton just shrivel up and melt away for no reason, everything else is spot on

 

[frank180reef]

ya same here with the zoos

 

[MrX]

Thanks guys... I was guessing the snail was ok, but wanted to make sure. Back in it goes.

Water params are still good and haven't fluctuated much. No other coral had issues like this, small frag of GSP closed up but they are back, think it was just the change in light for those.

Fingers crossed it was just this one frag. As I mentioned to dz6t at the last meeting at least I didn't pay for this one, so basically just lost an old disk I never used anyways. hehe.