treehugger
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I'm going to first apologize for not including a picture. About a month ago I put a beautiful 15 head torch colony in a customer's tank. They had another small hammer frag in the tank as well. A week after the torch went in, the hammer just blew apart. Two weeks later, the torch colony (which I had in my system for over two months with no problem) started blowing up. First it was a head here and a head there but within a month, half the colony was gone. This past week we arrived at the tank to only find 3 heads remaining. At the base of one of these heads was a flatworm that was easily over 2 inches long and an 1 wide. It was feasting on the base of the flesh below the polyp. We carefully removed it and put it in a jar to examine further. We didn't have a camera but I will try to get a pic posted. Just wanted to know if anyone out there has ever encounter such a pest? My partner said he had seen one other one in the past on a frogspawn colony that came in a shipment from indo but it was removed before it ate any of the coral or caused any real problems.
