Awesome Red Bug pics

[discuspro]

Check this link out!! They are using fluorescence microscopy.

http://www.smallreef.com/img/BUGS2/pics.htm

[fishypets]

Do you have the BUG??

[discuspro]

No, just very interested in possible research on these guys maybe in the future since little seems to be understood about them. I hope I don't get them but I do constantly keep my eye on every acropora incase the day comes.

Also found their scientific name because it has been buggin me - Tegastes acroporanus

Check out this bit of research Eric Borneman has done:
http://www.ericborneman.com/Tegastes-content/Research.html

[thedude]

Freaking little acropora anuses

[discuspro]

Right!

Anyone know how or if these guys lay eggs or not? I wonder if maybe they hold onto their eggs or deposit them somewhere. I believe the more we find out about these guys the better treatment methods will get, as with anything else requiring research.

[hammondegge]

dare you to breed them dustin. how about an aiptasia eating red bug hybrid? that poops calcium? and glows in the dark? please?

[discuspro]

:lol

Yeah, I was thinking about how the research would actually be able to take place. It would almost feel like I was working with ebola but for coral. To do the research I would actually have to get live specimens and that might be tricky, scary or something I haven't figured out yet.