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Well, my supplies came in today, so I decided to try "treating" one of the polyps. I put the coral in a bowl of tank water, then I used a needle to "inject" Melafix into the gap in the largest polyp's skeleton where the worms live. The worms started crawling out, and I continued to squirt the Melafix into the gap. Next, I carefully scraped the worms out of its skeleton. I spent at least 15 minutes getting those monsters out. Afterwards, I put some coral putty in the gap and sealed up the gap so that worms couldn't get back in.
In all, I removed at least TWENTY worms from just the one polyp. I put it on my new frag rack to help prevent other pests from hurting the polyp while the putty cures. If the polyp's still healthy a couple of weeks from now, I'll work on another polyp.
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