About two years ago a thread1 started up on the SPS (small-polyp scleractinian) Coral Keepers sub-forum on Reef Central. I read through the thread and suddenly felt rather ill. The thread described a species of small ‘bug’, almost like a ‘mite’ that infected genus Acropora corals and basically sucked the life out of them.…
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