15/09/2026
The other day we added a handful of new [to our farm] species of Acro like this one we are fairly certain is Acropora secale. After having its resident acro crab (Tetralia nigrolineata) carefully removed and put aside, the colony got cleaned up of any rock beneath the coral tissue including having a small amount of living tissue at the very edge removed to ensure there are no hidden acro eating flatty eggs waiting to hatch and cause grief! Inside the colony is also checked for dead patches caused by the flatworms or many other critters such as boring mussels, limpets, gorilla crabs that cause a dead spot where flat worms will lay eggs. Fortunately this perfect colony had nothing like that so lastly the coral is dipped and vigorously shaken in Coral Essentials flat worm dip to remove any hatched or adult flatties.
Then the colony is glued to one of our acrylic base plates with an RFID tag registered to our system and the acro crab is placed back into the coral to once again protect it from anything nasty. See the comments for the finished piece.
